al security.

* * *

How often a girl, even an affianced girl, accustomed to a multiplicity of
admirers, forgets the man of her ultimate choice she must then and there
set above all other claimants!

If the man the woman chooses for husband does not stand in her estimation
absolutely first and all other claimants nowhere there is bound sooner or
later to be trouble. For

No man will play second fiddle to any body or any thing; and

The realm amatory is a monarchial, not a republican, one. In all realms,
there must be a ruler, whether elected or hereditary.

Always a divided sway results in schism, whether in the family or in the
state. And although

Often enough the wife proves herself the more effective Sovereign, the
forms of monarchy must be conceded to the man, even though the executive
is left to the woman.

* * *

How often the only breast to which one can go on to "rain out the heavy
mist of tears" is the one inhibited!

* * *

Two wills are not so easily blended into one as that the task may be left
to Cupid. Yet,

Unless Cupid has a hand in blending two wills, it is bound to be a sorry
business at best.

Always and in all wedlock there comes a time when will conflicts with
will.

If both wills are inflexible, one must break--or both will fly apart.
But

Love and tact will relieve many a strain. Though sometimes one discovers
that

Human eyes have a certain store of tears. It is not difficult to weep
them all away. However,

In the final rupture between man and wife, it is the children that turn
the scales. But, O ye young husbands and wives, remember that

Youth regards the whole world as its friend; age finds itself desolate in
the midst of friends. Wherefore,

O youth, cleave unto the wife of thy bosom; since

A loving wife is worth a multitude of friends.

Sweet are friends, and fame is sweet; but sweeter far a wifely heart
whereon to lay a weary head. But

Each married pair must solve its own difficulties as best it can. If any
advice were worth the offering, it would be this:

O ye Husbands, and O ye Wives, if not for your own sakes then for your
children's, lead a straight, clean, honorable life; any other sort of
life leads to despicability, to dismalness, to disaster.--Which only
means, after all, that

In the marriage relation, as in every relation--the social, the
industrial, the commercial, the political--it is conduct, it is
character, that counts, nothi