18

CHAPTER VI

MAXIMS FOR THE MARRIED MAN

Keep your wife in order--How to deal with her (confidential) 22

CHAPTER VII

MAXIMS FOR THE MARRIED WOMAN

A wife should follow and obey her husband, especially follow him
--Feed the brute 29

CHAPTER VIII

THE GENTLE ART OF RULING A HUSBAND

The rule of women over men is the survival of the fittest 33

CHAPTER IX

ART IN LOVE

Pleasure and happiness--_Love_ is the poetry of the senses--The
artistic temperament--The instrument and the instrumentalist--The
defence of monogamy on artistic principles--Polygamy _versus_
monotony 38

CHAPTER X

SORE TRIALS FOR PEOPLE IN LOVE--WILL LOVE TRIUMPH OVER THE AFFLICTIONS
OF THE BODY?

A pathetic story--Could you whisper words of love through an
ear-trumpet?--The case presented on the stage--Take care of the
woman you love 43

CHAPTER XI

MAN VERSUS WOMAN IN LOVE

How many times can a man and a woman love?--They love differently
--A delicate question--'Lucky dog!'--The inexorability of the
virtuous woman 47

CHAPTER XII

COURTING IN FRANCE AND ENGLAND

Kneeling and sitting--The piquancy of French courting--The use of
the second person singular--The sealing kiss 51

CHAPTER XIII

THE WOMAN-HATER

Should a woman marry a woman-hater?--The portrait of a woman-hater
--The risk a woman runs in marrying a woman-lover--Take your chance,
don't cast your pearls before swine 55

CHAPTER XIV

WHAT DO WOMEN ADMIRE MOST IN MEN?

People generally admire in others the qualities they do not themselves
possess--The sexes differ in their opinions of infidelity and its
causes--The eleventh commandment: Never confess 59

CHAPTER XV

CAN GRATITUDE ENGENDER LOVE?

Expecting gratitude is asking for the price of a service--Love keeps
out of it 64

CHAPTER XVI

DOES MARRIAGE HELP A MAN?

In social life--In commercial life--In literary and artistic life--
Matrimony is a highly respectable institution 68

CHAPTER XVII

THE GOOSE AND THE GANDER

The case for man, the defendant--Freemasonry between women--Which
is right