is
natural in marriage. The builder has "builded wiser than he knew." At
thirty-five he finds himself well along on the successful journey of
life. His bachelor friend who has lived a selfish existence is poorer,
has lost the charm of youth, and is skurrying around to get a wife who
will be a queen and slave at the same time. His bachelor friend is

A LAUGHING-STOCK

among the last crop of young girls, who can recollect how he went with
their married sisters, and he will be satisfied with nothing above
eighteen, though his hair is dropping out, or frosting like a cold night
in September. If he had not been so selfish he would have been married
eight or ten years ago. Now

NATURE BEGINS TO ASSERT HERSELF.

The friends of his youth have formed the new ties that have come with
the march of the years. The trees have their leaves, and cast a grateful
shadow, cool and sweet. The bachelor is bare, and under his branches the
hot and withering sun pours down unpleasantly. You are lucky to have
escaped such a lot, for it is O, so lonesome and unsatisfactory to man!
It is not good for him to be alone. Now,

IN TALKING TO YOUR SWEETHEART,

there is one bearing alone which will bring forth good fruit. Be honest
and sincere. Remember that the philosophers and sages of the centuries
have been studying and marveling over the thing called Truth--why it is
that it always asserts itself--why it is that its parts always coincide
with each other, as though they had first been put together! When you
see cut stones unloading before the site of a building, you know by the
marks on them that, when they are put together, they will make a
fine-looking front, for the architect has copied them from the front of
some building which has, sometime or other, been erected just as this
projected structure will be. But here is

THIS QUARRY OF TRUTH;

you enter it without a human architect, hew out a stone, hew out
another, and another, and soon a beautiful edifice arises, in the walls
of which there is not a single peep-hole or blemish. Everything fits. So
bear yourself toward your future partner for life that when you enter
the quarry of your brain for her information, you also enter this quarry
of Truth. The stones you now cut out will stand as the buttresses of the
walls!

HOW SHOCKING IF THEY ARE LIES!

Tell her, when you tell her anything at all, the exact truth. Be very
careful about this. Tell her particularly about your mon