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90 and — what is more important — keeping a husband, for the simple reason that she respects the strong instincts of her nature, and forces her husband to do likewise, thus retaining and increasing day by day his respect and his love.

"Those women who are pale and nervous, who are without a natural appetite, unable to do any active work, or enjoy any vigorous recreation without being constantly out of breath, who are faint and weak, always complaining of pain in their back, and many other symptoms which are inseparably connected with female weakness, are not partially, but totally, unfitted for the marriage relation, and the man who marries such a woman not only makes her miserable, but himself also, and after a few years awakens to the fact that he has made the greatest mistake of his life." — Sylvanus Stall, D.D.

The entire conventional idea of marriage and the duties of a wife to her husband are