. How to be happy though married. Being a handbook to marriage . CHAPTER XXV. HUSBANDS HAVE DUTIES TOO. *A good wife is the gift of a good God, aud the workmanship of a goodhusband.— rroveil>. My dear sir, mind your studies, mind your business, vialce your ladfhappy, and be a good ChrisJan.—Dr. Johnson^s advice to Bosiicll. HIGHLAND horse-dealer, who lately effecteda sale, was offered a bottle of porter to confessthe animals failings. The bottle was drunk,and he then said the horse had but two faults-When turned loose in the field he was bad tocatch, and he was of no use when caught. !Many
. How to be happy though married. Being a handbook to marriage . CHAPTER XXV. HUSBANDS HAVE DUTIES TOO. *A good wife is the gift of a good God, aud the workmanship of a goodhusband.— rroveil>. My dear sir, mind your studies, mind your business, vialce your ladfhappy, and be a good ChrisJan.—Dr. Johnson^s advice to Bosiicll. HIGHLAND horse-dealer, who lately effecteda sale, was offered a bottle of porter to confessthe animals failings. The bottle was drunk,and he then said the horse had but two faults-When turned loose in the field he was bad tocatch, and he was of no use when caught. !Many a poorwoman might say the same of her husband. She had to makemany nets, for he was bad to catch, and when caught—well,he forgot that husbands have duties as well as wives. Somemen can neither do without wives nor with them; they arewretched alone, in what is called single blessedness, and theymake their homes miserable when they get married ; they arelike the dog, wliich could not bear to be loose, and howledwhen it was tied 236 HOW TO BE HAPPY THOUGH MARRIED. There are men with whom all the pleasure of love exists inits pursuit, and not in its possession. When a woman marriesone of this class, he seems almost to despise her from that got her into his power he begins to bully her. If it be true that there are more people married than keepgood houses, husbands are quite as much to blame as proverb tells us that good wives and good plantations aremade by good husbands. In the last chapter we ventured tosuggest that women should make cages as well as nets; but alltheir efforts will be in vain if they have ill-birds who foul theirown nests. To complete the subject, therefore, somethingmust be said about the behaviour of the male bird when caughtand caged. First of all he should sing and not cry. How many womenare there who suffer from the want of a kindly love, a sweet■appreciation of their goodness and their self-sacrifice! Howoften will wives do
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