and never hears from you any words of wisdom, or of common
information, he will soon hear nothing from you. Dress and gossips soon
wear out. If your memory is weak, so that it hardly seems worth while to
read, that is additional reason for reading.

[Illustration: TALKING BEFORE MARRIAGE.]

6. CULTIVATE PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS.--When you were encouraging the
attentions of him whom you now call husband, you did not neglect any item
of dress or appearance {212} that could help you. Your hair was always in
perfect training. You never greeted him with a ragged or untidy dress or
soiled hands. It is true that your "market is made," but you cannot afford
to have it "broken." Cleanliness and good taste will attract now as they
did formerly. Keep yourself at your best. Make the most of physical
endowments. Neatness and order break the power of poverty.

7. STUDY YOUR HUSBAND'S CHARACTER.--He has his peculiarities. He has no
right to many of them, and you need to know them; thus you can avoid many
hours of friction. The good pilot steers around the sunken rocks that lie
in the channel. The engineer may remove them, not the pilot. You are more
pilot than engineer. Consult his tastes. It is more important to your home,
that you should please him than anybody else.

8. PRACTICE ECONOMY.--Many families are cast out of peace into grumbling
and discord by being compelled to fight against poverty. When there are no
great distresses to be endured or accounted for, complaint and
fault-finding are not so often evoked. Keep your husband free from the
annoyance of disappointed creditors, and he will be more apt to keep free
from annoying you. To toil hard for bread, to fight the wolf from the door,
to resist impatient creditors, to struggle against complaining pride at
home, is too much to ask of one man. A crust that is your own is a feast,
while a feast that is purloined from unwilling creditors is a famine.

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How to Be a Good Husband.

1. SHOW YOUR LOVE.--All life manifests itself. As certainly as a live tree
will put forth leaves in the spring, so certainly will a living love show
itself. Many a noble man toils early and late to earn bread and position
for his wife. He hesitates at no weariness for her sake. He justly thinks
that such industry and providence give a better expression of his love than
he could by caressing her and letting the grocery bills go unpaid. He fills
the cellar and