and impart
new inspirations. All through life--through storm and through
sunshine, conflict and victory, and through adverse and favoring
winds--man needs a woman's love. The heart yearns for it. A sister's
or a mother's love will hardly supply the need. Yet many seek for
nothing further than success in housework. Justly enough, half of
these get nothing more; the other half, surprised beyond measure, have
got more than they sought. Their wives surprise them by bringing a
nobler idea of marriage, and disclosing a treasury of courage,
sympathy, and love.

And I would here caution you against giving way to little
misunderstandings in early married life. Sometimes trifling matters,
for want of some forbearance or concession on one side on the other,
perhaps on both sides, accumulate into serious results. These
differences might be avoided by married partners studying each other's
peculiarities of character, with the aim of mutually correcting, in a
kindly spirit, any wrong tendency or temper which may sometimes show
itself. Should you find you have inadvertently given pain to your
husband, do not rest until you have ascertained the cause of his
disquiet and succeeded in allaying the unhappy feeling. The earnest
desire to please each other should by no means terminate on the
wedding day, but be studiously continued through married life. Each
should always endeavor to think the best of the other, and instantly
reject every thought that might tend to weaken the bond of mutual
preference and perfect trust.

If he be wise, he will leave the housekeeping entirely to you; his
time and attention can be better employed elsewhere. To enable you to
do this wisely, you should, long before you marry, become familiar
with the quality and prices of articles of consumption, and where they
can best be obtained. Every wife should be able to cook well, whether
she has to do it herself or not. Health and good humor greatly depend
upon the food being of good quality, well cooked, and nicely served
up. She should also be able, if needful, to make and mend her own and
children's clothes.

Too much importance cannot be attached to cleanliness. Men may be
careless as to their own personal appearance, and may, from the nature
of their business, be negligent in their dress, but they dislike to
see any disregard in the dress and appearance of their wives. Nothing
so depresses a man and makes him dislike and neglect his home as to
have a wife wh