extremely circumspect Count Boni Castellane, whose marriage
of reason has so lately been shown to be so far from a
success.

There are quite enough more failures of the same kind to
offset the unhappy marriages of romance. It is of these, of
course, that Burton declares that matches are made in
heaven, though matches of the sulfurous kind, of which all
of us know some instances, suggest a very different place of
manufacture.

The Marriage of Reason.

Swift's saying that the reason why so few marriages are
happy is that "young ladies spend their time in making nets,
not in making cages," is doubly outrageous. In the first
place, it is an outrageous begging of the question. The
testimony of less cynical observers in our day and country
is that most marriages are entitled to be called happy.

In the second place, it outrageously puts the whole blame
for unhappy marriages on the female partner, contrary alike
to probability and to fact. But at least as many of the
marriages are failures in which men "choose" their wives, or
think they do, as in cases in which men become the prey of
their own imaginations.

And there is this to be said from the point of view of
reason in favor of marriages with which reason has nothing
to do. In the first months of married life there are
necessarily very many differences to be adjusted and small
incompatibilities of ways of thinking and feeling to be
reconciled. That, as all experienced spouses know, is the
trying period.

Marriage is like life in that it is a school wherein whoso
does not learn must suffer. Now, to diminish the friction of
this trying time no better lubricant could possibly be
provided than the romantic love, which cannot be expected to
last forever, but which may very probably outlast this
greatest necessity for it of the early connubial period.

When the glamour of the romance "fades into the light of
common day," and a real man and a real woman take the places
of the creatures of each other's fancy, and passion cools
into at best the tenderest of friendships, both parties are
better off, and will acknowledge themselves to be better off
because the romance has been.

EVERY MAN MASTER OF HIS OWN STOMACH.

Instinct Best Determines What You
Should Eat, So Eat What Your
Normal Instinct Tells