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Title: The Good Housekeeping Marriage Book

Author: Various

Editor: William F. Bigelow

Release Date: March 15, 2007 [EBook #20830]

Language: English

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THE
_Good Housekeeping_
MARRIAGE BOOK

THE CONTRIBUTORS

_Ernest R. Groves_
_James L. McConaughy_
_Ellsworth Huntington_
_Eleanor Roosevelt_
_Gladys Hoagland Groves_
_Elizabeth Bussing_
_Jessie Marshall_
_Hornell Hart_
_Frances Bruce Strain_
_William Lyon Phelps_
_Stanley G. Dickinson_

THE

_Good Housekeeping_

MARRIAGE BOOK7

_Twelve Steps to a Happy Marriage_

EDITED BY
_William F. Bigelow_
FORMER EDITOR _Good Housekeeping_ MAGAZINE

FOREWORD
_by Helen Judy Bond_

GARDEN CITY PUBLISHING CO., INC.
_Garden City, New York_

Garden City Publishing Co. REPRINT EDITION, 1949, by special
arrangement with Prentice-Hall, Inc.

Copyright, 1938, by
PRENTICE-HALL, INC.

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. NO PART OF THIS BOOK MAY BE REPRODUCED
IN ANY FORM, BY MIMEOGRAPH OR ANY OTHER
MEANS, WITHOUT PERMISSION IN WRITING FROM THE PUBLISHERS.

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

_William F. Bigelow_

_Introduction_

The articles that are printed in this book made what was in my opinion
the most important, the most constructive, series on a single subject
that _Good Housekeeping_ has published in the quarter century and more
that I was its editor. And they might so easily never have been
written--just a little item in a newspaper missed, or its significance
overlooked, and these sincere and helpful articles would still be locked
up in the minds and hearts of the men and women who wrote them. For it
all happened just like that. Students in one of the larger California
universities asked that a course in marriage relations be given--and a
New York newspaper heralded it with a stick of type over about page 10.

Somehow the item impressed me deep