pantry. He drives and pushes his business. He never dreams
that he is actually starving his wife to death. He may soon have a woman
left to superintend his home, but his wife is dying. She must be kept alive
by the same process that called her into being. Recall and repeat the
little attentions and delicate compliments that once made you so agreeable,
and that fanned her love into a consuming flame. It is not beneath the
dignity of the skillful physician to study all the {214} little symptoms,
and order all the little round of attentions that check the waste of
strength and brace the staggering constitution. It is good work for a
husband to cherish his wife.

[Illustration: TALKING AFTER MARRIAGE.]

2. CONSULT WITH YOUR WIFE.--She is apt to be as right as you are, and
frequently able to add much to your stock of wisdom. In any event she
appreciates your attentions.

3. STUDY TO KEEP HER YOUNG.--It can be done. It is not work, but worry,
that wears. Keep a brave, true heart between her and all harm.

4. HELP TO BEAR HER BURDENS.--Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill
the law of love. Love seeks opportunities to do for the loved object. She
has the constant care of your children. She is ordained by the Lord to
stand guard over them. Not a disease can appear in the community without
her taking the alarm. Not a disease can come over the threshold without her
instantly springing into the mortal combat. If there is a deficiency
anywhere, it comes out of her pleasure. Her burdens are everywhere. Look
for them, that you may lighten them.

5. MAKE YOURSELF HELPFUL BY THOUGHTFULNESS.--Remember to bring into the
house your best smile and sunshine. It is good for you, and it cheers up
the home. There is hardly a nook in the house that has not been carefully
hunted through to drive out everything that might annoy you. The dinner
which suits, or ought to suit you, has not come on the table of itself. It
represents much thoughtfulness and work. You can do no more manly thing
than find some way of expressing, in word or look, your appreciation of it.

6. EXPRESS YOUR WILL, NOT BY COMMANDS, BUT BY SUGGESTIONS.--It is God's
order that you should be the head of the family. You are clothed with
authority. But this does not authorize you to be stern and harsh, as an
officer in the army. Your authority is the dignity of love. When it is not
clothed in love it ceases to have the substance of authority. A simple
suggestion that may