Illustration: PREPARING TO ENTERTAIN HER LOVER.]

9. An old but true proverb: "A true man loving one woman will speak well of
all women. A true woman loving one man will speak well of all men. A good
wife praises all men, but praises her husband most. A good man praises all
women, but praises his wife most."

10. Persons deeply in love become peculiarly pleasant, winning and tender.
It is said that a musician can never excel or an artist do his best until
he has been deeply in love. A good orator, a great statesman or great men
in general are greater and better for having once been thoroughly in love.
A man who truly loves his wife and home is always a safe man to trust.

11. Love makes people look younger in years. People in unhappy homes look
older and more worn and fatigued. A woman at thirty, well courted and well
married, looks five or ten years younger than a woman of the same age
unhappily married. Old maids and bachelors always look older {120} than
they are. A flirting widow always looks younger than an old maid of like
age.

12. Love renders women industrious and frugal, and a loving husband spends
lavishly on a loved wife and children, though miserly towards others.

13. Love cultivates self-respect and produces beauty. Beauty in walk and
beauty in looks; a girl in love is at her best; it brings out the finest
traits of her character, she walks more erect and is more generous and
forgiving; her voice is sweeter and she makes happy all about her. She
works better, sings better and is better.

14. Now in conclusion, a love marriage is the best life insurance policy;
it pays dividends every day, while every other insurance policy merely
promises to pay after death. Remember that statistics demonstrate that
married people outlive old maids and old bachelors by a goodly number of
years and enjoy healthier and happier lives.

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Amativeness or Connubial Love.

[Illustration: CONFIDENCE.]

1. MULTIPLYING THE RACE.--Some means for multiplying our race is necessary
to prevent its extinction by death. Propagation and death appertain to
man's earthly existence. If the Deity had seen fit to bring every member of
the human family into being by a direct act of creative power, without the
agency of parents, the present wise and benevolent arrangements of husbands
and wives, parents and children, friends and neighbors, would have been
superseded, and all opportuniti