ssed me, it was bliss. Well, I
married him and we came to this beautiful home, and that thrill of
delight continued between me and Charles for about two months, and
during that time I was living in my ideal world. But after two months I
noticed a little less of that feeling, and it kept growing less and
less, till now there is none at all. I love him with my whole heart, and
am devoted to him, my environments are the same, or better in many ways,
seeing that I am a happy mother, and the place has now more comforts and
conveniences than when I came here as a bride; yet that attraction has
gone so that when Charles kisses me or touches me it seems as if it was
my own self kissed me and touched me--to make the union a perfect one,
the delight of attraction should always be present; in that way I have
not realized my ideal."

Penloe said: "Do you know, Mrs. Herne, there are more than a million
couples whose experience is exactly like your own; and if your
environments had not been so pleasant, and both of your dispositions
well blended, and well balanced, you would have separated long ago, as
many have done, not knowing the real cause, and thinking it was
something else. You see," continued Penloe, "before you were married,
you and your husband had both led pure, virtuous lives; and each of you
was like a strong electric battery, charged with the life forces of the
body, which produced this pleasant feeling of attraction, and when you
were married both of you thought and acted like most other married
people."

Mrs. Herne said: "Thank you, Penloe; the ideas you have advanced should
become common property of the many."

Penloe replied: "Yes; but there are some who have these ideas, but don't
wish to put them in practice."

Mrs. Herne said: "Penloe, suppose that two married persons having been
living as most married persons do, and one of the two wished to live the
better way which you have just described, while the other wished to live
as they have been doing, what would be best to do in a case like that?"

Penloe replied: "That is a matter that requires the best judgment
possible, so as not to give offence. Great diplomacy must be used where
hard feelings are liable to be produced; but there is one thing that
must always be kept in view and that is that the one who wishes to live
the better way must be true to himself or herself. The matter should be
presented in a very kindly way, showing that it is as much for the
in