d of praise, is the man that claims their admiration
by virtue of thoughtfulness and consideration.

This man, too, would be far more apt to hold a woman's affection than
the best and most upright of his sex, who is thoughtless and
indifferent, not of her physical comfort, but of all her pet fancies
and sentiments, who never saw her new gowns, and is profoundly
neglectful of all those trifles, light as air, which go far toward
making up the sum of woman's happiness or misery.

What Men Desire.

Hepworth Dixon, on being asked what men most desire in a wife, and
what quality held them longest, unhesitatingly replied, "That she
should be a pillow." Then, noting the inquiry thus suggested, he went
on to say: "What a man most needs is that he should find in his wife a
pillow whereon to rest his heart. He longs to find a moment's rest
from the outer whirl of life, to win a ready listener that sympathizes
where others wound." And she whose eyes are flattering mirrors, whose
lips console and soothe, will find that she has secured a hold upon
the heart of her husband, that the embodiment of all the virtues of
her sex could not secure, were she wanting in this sympathetic tact.

Sweet-tempered people are the joy of the world. Their civilities,
their self-sacrifice, their thoughtfulness for others it is that oils
the wheels of domestic life. People who, according to the old phrase,
have "tempers of their own," are not, at the best, agreeable
companions. We may respect their good qualities, but we are apt to
give them a wide berth where possible. But when they are inmates of
our own households, the evil spirit must be confronted and exorcised
if possible.

Many a wife has, by exercising her own self-control, subdued and
shamed a tyrannical, evil-tempered husband into a better disposition,
but never by argument, dispute, or anger on her part.

Many a husband, too, has by the firmness and sweetness of his own
temper, won his young, impatient wife, tried by the half-understood
cares of her new existence, to evenness of spirit and control of
temper. "It is impossible to be cross where Charlie is," said one
young wife, taken from a home where self-control had never been
taught. "I am always ashamed of it afterward."

Fault-Finding.

"Take us the foxes, the little foxes that spoil our vines," and of the
insidious foxes that spoil the tender fruitage of the household vine,
a fault-finding disposition is most dangerous.

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