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Show I A I line to Be Mlent. ' 'Do you know. ' said a matron whose married life extended over a score of years, "that. 1 attribute iu a considerable consider-able degree the happiness of our iifo to a custom which my husband and myself have unfailingly respected we never do any talking, hardly speak to one another, indeed, before breakfast. He was quite a confirmed bachelor when I married him. and he told me soon afterward that until he had taken his breakfast coffee he held the most morose and gloomy views of every- - ' thin?. I I "I thought at first this was a little I I peculiar, but when my attention was ' i thus called to it I dircovered that I, .1 ! too, found life much more agreeable, .' i and small burdens much more beara- ! ble after I had broken my night's fast. i Many wives tell me their most availa-''' availa-''' j ble time to 'talk over things' is during ! the dressing hour. I always feel like 'A begginp them to try eomo other time, ts It is a mental exertion to discuss the ways and means of this exacting existence exist-ence of ours too great a one. I think, to be indulged in before breakfast." ft Her Point of View in New York Times, |