re domestic contentment and happiness. A
bad man, of course, does not deserve a good wife, yet he will do his utmost
to get one.

11. FALSE APPEARANCE.--Men love reserved, coy and discreet women much more
than blunt, shrewd and boisterous. Falsehood, false hair, false curls,
false forms, false bosoms, false colors, false cheeks, and all that is
false, men naturally dislike, for in themselves they are a poor foundation
on which to form family ties, consequently duplicity and hypocrisy in women
is very much disliked by men, but a frank, honest, conscientious soul is
always lovable and lovely and will not become an old maid, except as a
matter of choice and not of necessity.

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History of Marriage.

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1. "It is not good for man to be alone," was the Divine judgment, and so
God created for him an helpmate; therefore sex is as Divine as the soul.
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2. POLYGAMY.--Polygamy has existed in all ages. It is and always has been
the result of moral degradation and wantonness.

3. THE GARDEN OF EDEN.--The Garden of Eden was no harem. Primeval nature
knew no community of love; there was only the union of two souls, and the
twain were made one flesh. If God had intended man to be a polygamist he
would have created for him two or more wives; but he only created one wife
for the first man. He also directed Noah to take into the ark two of each
sort--a male and female--another evidence that God believed in pairs only.

4. ABRAHAM no doubt was a polygamist, and the general history of
patriarchal life shows that the plurality of wives and concubinage were
national customs, and not the institutions authorized by God.

5. EGYPTIAN HISTORY.--Egyptian history, in the first ostensible form we
have, shows that concubinage and polygamy were in common practice.

6. SOLOMON.--It is not strange that Solomon, with his thousand wives,
exclaimed: "All is vanity and vexation of spirit." Polygamy is not the
natural state of man.

7. CONCUBINAGE AND POLYGAMY continued till the fifth century, when the
degraded condition of woman became to some extent matters of some concern
and recognition. Before this woman was regarded simply as an instrument of
procreation, or a mistress of the household, to gratify the passions of
man.

8. THE CHINESE marriage system was, and is, practically polygamous, for
from their earliest traditions we learn, although a man could have but one
wife, he was permitted to have as