which you would pay him a specified amount to keep baby well and
receive his services whenever you need them during that period. Under
such a plan you may pay anywhere from $50 to $300 a year. If you prefer
to pay by the visit, you take the risk; it may cost more, or it may
amount to less in the course of a year than it would under the terms of
a definite contract.

It is easy to be extravagant in buying unnecessary clothes and toys for
the child. Remember that a baby is happiest in the simplest surroundings
and that the only two things you can give your child which are of
permanent value are good health and an acceptable social attitude. If
you have the sort of home which leads him to develop a friendly, happy
disposition and teaches him the necessity of living honestly and
sincerely with no attempt to conceal mistakes, you will give him as much
as any parent can give any child. It is for yourself and not for your
possessions that your children may "arise up, and call you blessed."

It is important to you both to keep up your appearance in order to be as
attractive physically and mentally as before you were married. But you
may have to be very ingenious in devising short cuts to this end when
the permanent wave you planned for or the new suit you hoped to buy is
deferred by the need to put some more money into your husband's
preparation for his business or profession or by any other emergency
which might arise. The pluck with which you meet these disappointments
is a measure of your fitness for marriage.

In my own observation, among the young business and professional group I
have seen less genuine lack of money than fretful stupidity which was
expressed in poor management. A lack of imagination and resourcefulness
often paves the way to tragedy. We are living in a fascinating age, but
under a complex economy that makes many demands on our spirit of
pioneering and adventure.

It was picturesque--daring, perhaps--to leave comfortable homes and
settled communities as our great-grandparents did, adventuring into new
country. It sounds romantic to live in a sodhouse and wrestle with
nature. The truth is that they pretty well had to do these things to
carve out a niche for themselves in their economic system.

We young married people may have to live in a walk-up in an
unfashionable part of town, but the same spirit of daring adventure and
the identical will to make a go of things animates us. If you have that
spirit