empt from the petty cares and economies which a
limited income necessitates, is a condition much to be desired, even where
no love exists to soften the heart of husband and wife, and in this case
Hugh McNeil could not be charged with possessing an unloving heart.

Dexie thinks she has made the wisest choice in accepting Guy Traverse and
marrying for love, but she has yet to face the question--Is mutual love
alone essential to secure a happy married life? or in the language of the
world:

"Does it pay to marry for love alone?"

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ABOUT SHORTHAND!

The need of a simpler and swifter mode of writing is felt by all who have
much writing to do--by newspaper men, by legal gentlemen, by clergymen, by
students in taking class lectures and making notes of many things valuable
for future "refreshment," authors and scientific men in recording important
facts.

Amanuenses are in demand as corresponding clerks and secretaries in all
important mercantile and literary offices, at salaries much higher than is
paid in any similar employment. Indeed, many of the leading business and
professional men owe their prosperity to their knowledge of Shorthand and
Typewriting.

If a young man or woman desires a business or profession, light, pleasant,
what is more congenial than stenography? Other occupations are crowded, and
the income for years is small. But stenography, on the other hand, is an
opening through which one can enter any business or profession with rewards
equal to ability and capacity.

Which System?

There are a dozen or more different systems of shorthand. Each one is best
to somebody. Which is best for you? Eleven are hard to learn, and harder to
practise; who will learn them? One is simple and easy--children learn it.
The one is

Simple Shorthand

best, because simplest, easiest, quickest learned, most legible of all, and
fully answers every purpose for which shorthand is desired.

Shorthand must be learned quickly, or most people cannot afford the time.
There has never been a satisfactory system till now. Previous systems have
been too complicated, and people get an idea that shorthand is very
difficult--it is not. Simple Shorthand is not.

Simple Shorthand excels the difficult systems in all their good points, and
seems to have none of their faults. Therefore I cannot be too exact in
describing it. The several advantages are:

No shading, no positions, no arbitrary ch