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Show CZZZZZZZZZZmZ Excuse the gross and arithmetical com parison. Suppose that happiness be rcp-TLy rcp-TLy resented by the number 100, nnd that in order to attain this figure the co-opcra- rpi I f you commence, on your part by con- Aliy tributing ?0 or 80 your companion vvyll TTlYdiflTlfl I1C0(' ' k''vo k"" .r 30 n,m "1C sum n'" ways will be reached. If you can give 90 you ' will secure it the more readily, since he .., Dk PAUL'MATEOAZZA. J. ,lo"nt f tC"' I.no PPJv holds where the wifo gives 99 nnd the mis- IJJJJSSSSnSS '"""' onty "e' 'no 8cncr0H8 w'k "ever finds her spouse too niggardly. The sum always is complete nnd tho happiness perfect. Woo to you if you hold forth to your husband that you do not wish to offer mqre than CO, neither moro nor less. Your exactness will olfeiul him, and his tribute to tho domestic bliss soon will reduce to minute proportions. pro-portions. Kxact little, exceedingly little, of your husband, and you will have gone more than half way along the path that leads to the peace of the fireside. fire-side. This done, all that tho man, ever an egotist and always less loving than the woman, concedes to you will come like an unexpected gift, n dear surprise. If, on tho contrary, you mcasuro the happiness of tho family in tho balance of justico you will expose yourself to the most disagreeable surprises, to the bitterest disillusions. C! iris when they marry know men only by novels. These men either aro demons or angels. Tho men that pass their lives in cities, and not on the pages of romance, rarely are dcilB, nnd they never aro angels. They aro graceful animals when they aro handwune who love themselves above everything else in the world, even iibow their wives. They aro intelligent, featherless bipeds who n" Sg5? seek in the wifo an increase of their own ease, or a keeper of the house, a lovable and beautiful little ma- Kp chino with which they can perpetuate their family, a V companion to their pleasure, aniirso in their invalidism?. J( 51 ! llcgin then by contributing a double pari to the (' v sum of domestic felicity. The New Testament said, m smj' "Lovo your neighbor as yourself." To a woman it (VvTjHlS should bo said: "Lovo your husband more than your- ( lAiT - self." And if she has not married a man unworthy LjjV 1 tho name, an egotist of ice, ho wll lovo her the more be- U V u cause she always loves him, and loves him much. j ! 4 |