y, 4
wife's, 146-147

College students:
marriage courses, 12, 25
premarital examination of, 10-12

Compromises, 57-59

Concentrated intimacy, 60-61

Concerts, 17

Conflict, avoiding marital, 97-110

Constitutional vigor, 33-34

Contempt, 104

Conversation:
benefits of good, 18
wife's, 146-147

Cooperation, 103-104

Courage, 7, 103

Courts, avoiding divorce, 97-110

Courtship, 1-12

Courtship candidate:
character of, 5-6
courage of, 7
mental growth of, 6
wearing qualities of, 5-6

Cowardice, 102-103

Criticism, 16

Culture, aids to, 142

Date, wedding, 16

Day-to-day expenses, 70

Death statistics, 32

Debt, dangers of, 19, 71, 84

Defective teeth, 30

de Maupassant, Guy, 131

Dental bills, 77

Dependence, mutual, 48

Dependents:
marriage and, 19
provision for, 70

Depreciation allowances, 70-71

Diabetes, 30

Dickinson, Stanley G., 140-153

Diet, 34

Dinner-table conversation, 147

Dionne quintuplets, 118

Disappointments, marriage, 1-2, 5, 8, 20-21, 48, 97-110

Disease statistics, 32

Divorce:
averting, 97-110
grounds for, 29
rates, 14, 20-21

Doctor:
bills, 77-78
certificate of fitness by, 22
counseling service of, 10, 25-26, 30, 36-37, 92-93

Dress (_see_ Clothing)

Drummond, Henry, 137

Duncan, Matthews, 93

Durable goods budget, 70-71

Duty, marriage, 27-42

Earning power:
husband's, 66-69, 141
wife's, 73-74

Economy, domestic, 66-79, 97

Education:
health, 35
religious, 126-139
sex, 9-10, 12, 111-125, 128

Elementary school children, sex instruction of, 114

Emotional:
antagonism, 104-105
instability, 31-32, 36, 142, 144, 159-160
reactions, 4-5
restraint, 8
stability, 13, 34, 61-62

Emotions:
checking runaway, 159-160
child's, 113

Employment, wife's outside, 21, 73-74

Engagement:
intimacy of, 16
length of, 18
period, 13-26

Engineering school, marriage and, 19

England, birthdays in, 33

Entertainment expense, 76-77, 147

Environment:
child's, 95
defects, 32-36
home, 140-141
postnatal, 35-36
pre-natal, 35-36

Eugenics, progress of, 36

Everyday life, party manners _versus_, 4

Examinations, medical, 10-12, 22, 28-29, 36, 94

Exercise, benefits of, 17-18, 76-77

Expense, marriage, 66-79, 88

Extravagance, 75, 78

Eyesight, poor, 30

Failures, marriage, 1-2, 5, 8, 20-21, 97-110

Faith:
Christian, 137
religious