ey affairs. Your
happiness depends more on food and clothes than you are now able to
understand. But if you put in solid blocks of truth for the basement,
the finer developments of your life will join on with precision and
effect. I know a young man who went in debt for a fine span of horses
and wagon. His bride supposed they were his own, and he "let her
suppose."

A WHOLE AFTERLIFE

of the veriest toil and the most honorable career never wholly expunged
the blame which attached to him in both her mind and the minds of her
people. It was so foolish in him! One little speech, and long years of
bitter pride-wounding would have been averted. The young woman would
have married him, just as quickly, for it is easy to make terms before
marriage in this country. Do not promise to do things which depend more
on events than on yourself. Do not promise to love your future wife
always. She may prove unworthy of it. You may prove incapable of it.

INWARDLY MAKE UP YOUR MIND

to ennoble yourself so that your affections will solidify. The
companionship of a woman will do much to help you. Promise little by
word of mouth--everything by actions. Then, as your days come and go,
your character constantly comes more fully into the light, and that
light is one of broad, pleasant, humanly love. Your wife will be sure to
live happily, for you have built within her mind no extravagant
expectations.

LOOK AT A CIRCUS POSTER!

See the absurd and ridiculous promises made upon it! Why do they dare so
to humbug the people? Because, in no other way could they get people to
ride ten or twelve miles through a summer drouth to hand over their
money to the man who is anxious to get it! Here is a man in a chariot,
with tigers plunging under his rein like the rays from the sun.

[Illustration: COURTSHIP.

"New hope may bloom, and days may come.
Of milder, calmer beam,
But there's nothing half so sweet in life,
As love's young dream."]

Here is a pyramid of elephants four elephants high! Here is the
acrobat in the midst of the smoke and blaze of an Armstrong cannon,
beginning some flight to a far-off trapeze, or swing, in the air! It is
somewhat different inside.

THE CHARIOT OF TIGERS

is an enlarged rat trap with two sleepy, disgusted overgrown cats in
it--cats which do not thrive well in this cold land, and which do not
smell any too sweet and clean. The pyramid of fine-looking
picture-elephants is an ugly