sses where you would either never
have seen them, or have forgotten them altogether.

BE KIND TO YOUR WIFE.

If you find this difficult, begin by making up your mind that, during
the next week, you will not, under any circumstances whatever, speak a
cross word to her. Carry out this resolution as well as you can. Then
the next week takes off the strain. The natural tendency of cross words
to misery will so startle you that you will soon try it for another
week. You will do better on the second trial. This is important for your
own peace of mind, for, in scolding and fretting, the average woman, if
you get her started, can easily hold her own. This woman is bound to you
by stronger ties than you suppose.

GO OFF TWO HUNDRED MILES AND SEE!

She is also bound to you by very strong bonds in the law, as you would
find out if you deserted her. She is also entitled to a very high place
in your goings and comings, as society teaches you. When the President
is inaugurated, there is a front seat close by for his wife. The Chief
Justice administers the oath, and there is another front seat for his
wife, also. So you need not be afraid of doing her too much honor. Speak
to her respectfully. Perhaps there is a youngster watching you--you have
no idea how closely. This youngster will try on his hand governing his
mother, if he sees any opportunity whatsoever. Just look to it that he
does not see such an opening! Your wife as you will know, has cares of
a multifarious kind. Her hours of labor greatly exceed yours, though she
cannot concentrate her mind on one thing as you can. She is fitted, by
long years of inherited housewifery, to do this and then that with
untiring devotion to the interests of her household. You cannot, as a
general thing, lighten those legitimate cares save by your smiles. But
you are a selfish man if you increase them by requiring any great amount
of extra personal attention. You will find it her nature to minister to
you in many ways. Let her alone in it. Accept all gratefully, and do
something in return

BY WAY OF FORMAL RECEIPT.

You will grow happier day by day, and your wife will be the happiest
woman in the neighborhood. She will be proud of you because you have had
the brains to be happy and sensible. We hear a good deal of railing
against the general wisdom of getting married. There seems to be a sort
of popular contagion lately, making it fashionable to fling jeers and
jibes at the cares an