son. Hazlitt and Emerson--"The Wooden
God's Remorse"--"Love Me Little Love Me Long"--The Poet Petrarch's Strange
Behavior--"If She Do not Care for Me, What Care I How Fair She Be!"
--LaFontaine, Lyttleton, Schiller, Ruffini, Ducoeur, DeStael, Colton,
Dudevant, Balzac, Moore, Beecher, Victor Hugo, Longfellow, Limayrac, Howe,
Deluzy and Jane Porter--"Solomon was So Seduced, and He Had a Very Good
Wit"--Alexander Smith--Great Space Given to Love in all the Books of the
World--Some Things to Remember While Viewing the Passion in Others.
Page 219.
Courtship.
The Young Man Finds Himself in Love and "Begins to Think"--He Wonders
That He Never Before Thought of Money--Difference Between a Wharf-Rat
and a Man--Difference Between a Married Man and an Old Bachelor Who Has
Always Been Afraid of the Expense--Everything Natural in Marriage--Be
"Square" with Your Sweetheart--The Circus-Poster--The Quarry of
Truth--Do not "Talk Big" and Love Little--Courtship and Marriage not a
Matter of "Want to or Don't Want to," but a Strenuous Case of "Got
to"--Marriage Like Life Insurance--Closing Hints. Page 234.
Marriage.
Sample of a "Swell Wedding"--Undignified Aspects of a Swell Wedding
Where It Takes Every Cent a Man Can Earn, Beg and Borrow--A Farce, and
an Example to Shun--Let us Have Some Manhood and Womanhood at a Critical
Point, the Start in Real Life--To Be a Man Is to Be Married--Nature's
Artful Treatment of Human Beings--Folly of Men Who Throw Away Their
Happiness--Be Inquisitive Before Marriage--Be Blind Thereafter--The Law
Approves and Encourages the Married State--The Married Man Is of the
Greater Importance in the Nation--A Thing to Be Kept in Mind--Married
Men Healthier than Bachelors--Married Women Healthier than Maids--A
Married Man Has a Greater Excess of Comforts than of Troubles as
Compared with the Comforts and Troubles of the Bachelor. Page 246.
Wedded Life.
A Practical Chapter on Life as It Is Actually Lived by a Man and Woman
Who Have a Fair Chance in the World--A Home With a Young Wife in It no
Place for Other Men, no Matter How Dear they May Be to the Husband--Give
the Wife a Chance--Kindness--Do not Be Afraid of Honoring Your Wife any
Too Much--The Wife's Proper Cares--A Reply to the Common Form of Attack
on the Principle that Marriage Is Both Natural and Expedient--McFarland--A
Man's Happy Experience as a Husband--Judgment, Vanity, Selfishness and
Trepidation--Good for Evil--Astonishing Changes in
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