ce in social
position, it is better that the husband should be the superior. A woman
does not like to look down upon her husband, and to be obliged to do so is
a poor guarantee for their happiness.

2. It is best to marry persons of your own faith and religious convictions,
unless one is willing to adopt those of the other. Difference of faith is
apt to divide families, and to produce great trouble in after life. A pious
woman should beware of marrying an irreligious man. {171}

3. Don't be afraid of marrying a poor man or woman. Good health, cheerful
disposition, stout hearts and industrious hands will bring happiness and
comfort.

4. Bright red hair should marry jet black, and jet black auburn or bright
red, etc. And the more red-faced and bearded or impulsive a man, the more
dark, calm, cool and quiet should his wife be; and vice versa. The florid
should not marry the florid, but those who are dark, in proportion as they
themselves are light.

5. Red-whiskered men should marry brunettes, but no blondes; the color of
the whiskers being more determinate of the temperament than that of the
hair.

6. The color of the eyes is still more important. Gray eyes must marry some
other color, almost any other except gray; and so of blue, dark, hazel,
etc.

7. Those very fleshy should not marry those equally so, but those too spare
and slim; and this is doubly true of females. A spare man is much better
adapted to a fleshy woman than a round-favored man. Two who are short,
thick-set and stocky, should not unite in marriage, but should choose those
differently constituted; but on no account one of their own make. And, in
general, those predisposed to corpulence are therefore less inclined to
marriage.

8. Those with little hair or beard should marry those whose hair is
naturally abundant; still those who once had plenty, but who have lost it,
may marry those who are either bald or have but little; for in this, as in
all other cases, all depends on what one is by nature, little on present
states.

9. Those whose motive-temperament decidedly predominates, who are bony,
only moderately fleshy, quite prominent-featured, Roman-nosed and muscular,
should not marry those similarly formed.

10. Small, nervous men must not marry little, nervous or sanguine women,
lest both they and their children have quite too much of the hot-headed and
impulsive, and die suddenly.

[Illustration: Light, Life, Health and Beauty.]

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