ly
good.

A WIFE'S PRAYER.

9. When his wife goes to bed she loves to put her head on her husband's
knees to say her prayers, and he loves to have her. He has great
confidence in a woman's prayers, and he is disposed, selfishly but
correctly, to believe the supplication is nearly dual in its character.
In his speech he treats his wife as though she were the wife of an
honored friend. If he talked either loosely or coarsely to his wife he
might fall in love with any woman to whom he showed greater respect. He
would, beside, proclaim his folly, for woman has small sense of humor.

DEATH OR WORSE.

10. If my friend were suddenly to lose this home by the death of the
wife, he would receive an unmeasured sympathy from all thoughtful men
not included in the small class who never understood what there was in
"Home, Sweet Home," to set people to humming it. If he were to have this
wrenched from him by a sudden awakening of his wife to all his faults,
and as blind an infatuation with the faults of another man as was once
extended to his own, he would know just how Daniel McFarland felt. My
friend is induced to believe, however, that his wife will be strongly
under his influence so long as he does not inspire her with fear. He
will not pound her unless he falls to whisky-guzzling, which,
considering that he does not yet use tobacco, is impossible.

SO MUCH OF A PARTICULAR HOME.

By the study of other women than his own wife (which is a very unjust
mode of study) man learns to hate women in general. By observing his
wife, however, he is inclined to love all her sex. Again, by
contemplating himself he falls into detestation of all humankind. Such
"men" as young Mr. Bachelor have spent their time in exhaustive
subjective researches. They know themselves too well. They should, in
reforming, take an easy step upward, and, by contemplating the good
points of Swift's Yahoos, somewhat elevate their opinion of the species
which they so graciously ornament! A green old age is universally
admired. The color of greenness at thirty, however, is not fashionable.
If I have lacked in charity in defending the wisdom of married life, it
is because I have seen too much grass thrown at bad boys. When you hear
a fool prating of the misery of married men as compared with single men,
answer him according to his folly, or, perhaps better, answer him not at
all.

BACHELORS.

I would not my unhoused free condition
Put int