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238 in you to make an effort to find out those things? My dear girl, don't soil your mind with such knowledge, and don't lower yourself morally by cultivating and encouraging a vile curiosity. Be eager to know the best about your husband's kin. See the best and tell of it, and when they do—these people who bear your husband's name—some kind act, don't forget to tell those from whom you came about it, and never, no matter what may happen, carry an unkind story about your husband's mother to the mother who bore you. If she be wise she would not listen. But sometimes extreme love makes people unwise, and she might forget to reprimand her daughter for talking about things that it would be wiser to forget. Learn to control your ears as well as your tongue; be only eager to hear words of praise rather than words of blame.

Some morning when Jack goes down town there is a perplexed look on his face, and when he kisses you, you think he does it rather as a matter of habit than desire, and like the loving little goose that you are, you go up-stairs and have a hard cry, concluding that your husband has ceased to love you. Now that is all nonsense. If you have been a wise little woman your husband loves