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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
attention and 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
should blend in sweet confidence and cheer, each
partner sustaining the other, - thus hallowing the union
of interests and affections, in which the heart finds peace
and home.
(Trysting renewed)
Tender words and unselfish care in what promotes the
welfare and happiness of your wife will prove more salutary
in prolonging her health and smiles than stolid
indifference or jealousy. Husbands, hear this
and remember how slight a word or deed 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, for deception
is fatal to happiness.
(Permanent obligation)
The nuptial vow should never be annulled, so long as
its moral obligations are kept intact; but the frequency
of divorce shows that the sacredness of this relationship
is losing its influence, and that fatal
mistakes are undermining its foundations. Separation
never should take place, and it never would, if both
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