. ... Woman in girlhood, wifehood, motherhood; her responsibilities and her duties at all periods of life; a guide in the maintenance of her health and that of her children . for thechildren. The avoidance of contention. The economic dependence ofwoman. Humiliation dwarfs a womans character. The question of pocketmoney. Race Suicide. Healthy home life necessary. Unjustly all our nymphs complain,Their empire holds so short a reign,Is after marriage lost so soon,It hardly holds the honeymoon:For if they keep not what they caught,It is entirely their own fault;They take possession of the crown,An
. ... Woman in girlhood, wifehood, motherhood; her responsibilities and her duties at all periods of life; a guide in the maintenance of her health and that of her children . for thechildren. The avoidance of contention. The economic dependence ofwoman. Humiliation dwarfs a womans character. The question of pocketmoney. Race Suicide. Healthy home life necessary. Unjustly all our nymphs complain,Their empire holds so short a reign,Is after marriage lost so soon,It hardly holds the honeymoon:For if they keep not what they caught,It is entirely their own fault;They take possession of the crown,And then throw all their weapons by the politicians scheme,Whoer arrives at power supreme,Those arts by which at first they gain it,They still must practice to maintain it. — Swift, LOVE IS KEPT BY ART. D EAN SWIFT says that the reason why so few mar-riages are happy is because young ladies spend theirtime in making nets to catch mens hearts, not inmaking cages to keep them. The same thought wasexpressed by Ben Jonson when he remarked that Lovecomes by chance, but is kept by art. According to Ben-jamin Franklin happiness in married life is preserved by 140. Copyright, 1904, by William H. Rail. MOTHER THE QUEEN OF THE HOUSE. After the children come to manhood and womanhood the mother andJather find old age made happy by the presence of those able to grace thehearthstone and help bear the burdens of life. HAPPINESS IN MARRIED LIFE 141 carefully avoiding litigious wranglings and capriciouscontentions, and by cultivating dispositions of reciprocalcondescension and such an uniformity in tempers that thepleasures of one may be the pleasures of both. An ambition, he says,to please each other, andoblige by all the little turnsof behavior, that so fre-quently will occur to apolite and well-disposedinclination, must have awonderful good effect tosupport our affections, se-cure mutual esteem andfriendship. Minds of anyrefined cast have an exqui-site relish for these sooth-ing
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