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 Will they insist on beautiful clothes and a beautiful home without regard to your income?

Have they been so accustomed to expensive living that they cannot adapt themselves to anything else?

It takes money to live, and much money to live in luxury. Nothing brings unhappiness into the home more quickly than shortage of money when the wife is thinking of herself only, or chiefly.

When the wolf comes in at the door it is too often true that love flies out of the window. One of the greatest causes for unhappiness in marriage would often seem to be the lack of money to provide the things one needs to live in the way that one likes to live.

Then you are to think of some other basic things. For example, are you of the same race?

Of the same nationality?

Of the same stock?

Have you a common background? By background I refer to the mode of living in early life and the kind of education and culture and association you have had. It is necessary to consider one's mutual background, and nationality, and race.

And then as to religion, do you differ? Has she a strong tendency, from inheritance and training, to follow along certain religious lines which are contrary