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Rh thing to do. Matrimony should never be entered into without a full recognition of its enduring obligations

on both sides. There should be the most tender solicitude for each other's happiness, and mutual approbation should wait on all the years of married life.

Mutual compromises will often maintain a compact which might otherwise become unbearable. Man should not be required to participate in all the annoyances and cares of domestic economy, nor should woman be expected to understand political economy. Fulfilling the different demands of their united spheres, their sympathies may blend in sweet confidence and cheer, each partner sustaining the other, — thus hallowing the union of interests and affections, wherein the heart finds peace.

Tender words, and unselfish care in what promotes the welfare and happiness of your wife, will prove more

salutary than stolid indifference or jealousy, in prolonging her smiles and health. Husbands, hear this, and remember how slight a word may renew the old trysting-times.

After marriage it is too late to grumble over incompatibility of disposition. A mutual understanding should exist before this union, and continue ever after. Deception is fatal to happiness.

The nuptial vow should never be annulled, so long as its moral obligations are kept intact; but the frequency

of divorce shows the sacredness of this relation to be losing its strength, and that most fatal mistakes are undermining its foundations. Separation never should take place; and it never would, if