ecially if he has had the privilege of paying for it.

Never allow your husband to frequent your dressing-room and poke his
nose into all your little jars and bottles, for fear he should discover
the secret of your beauty and of your lovely complexion. Remind him
that Balzac said that a man must be a philosopher or a fool who enters
his wife's dressing-room.

Cheerfulness is the keynote of happiness in matrimony. Never take life,
and never let your husband take life, too seriously, if you happen to
have the good fortune to be in easy circumstances. Indulge in little
fads and yield to hundreds of innocent temptations. Your life will one
day be worth remembering on account of the thousand and one little
follies you will have indulged in and enjoyed.

If your husband has a hobby, encourage him in it; never snub him for
it. If he brings home a little picture, an engraving, a set of books, a
few bits of china he has taken a fancy to, admire his purchase, and
don't tell him he has spent his money foolishly. Probably he has earned
that money himself. Besides, reflect that there are men who spend their
money in drink or at the gambling-table, not only their spare cash, but
often the money that would buy the necessaries of life for their wives
and families.

I know men who dare not change the place of a picture in their own
house, for fear of being sneered at by their wives. Let your husband
'potter' about his house to his heart's content. Let his study be a
lovely picture of disorder, and every time you enter that room, don't
begin to turn up your nose at the door, and look everywhere to see if
there is a little dust on the furniture.

When you have decided to go in for the spring-cleaning of your house,
choose your time well and see that it fits in with one when your
husband can have a little holiday. Spring-cleaning indulged in
indiscriminately has been the cause of more disturbance in temper and
language than all the immorality of the world put together.

Let the man smoke and the children romp all over the place. Don't
compel them to withdraw, like culprits, one in some underground den,
the others in a nursery at the top of the house. If some stuck-up prig
of your acquaintance should call on you and spread the report that your
house is not kept on the strictest lines of order and propriety, plead
guilty, and show that woman, to obtain 'extenuating circumstances,' the
marks of the kisses of your husband and children en