THi: I-OMK, FARM AND BUSINESS CYCLOPEDIA. 



all our worst antipathies are unconsciously aroused by the being whom 

 once we loved what then ? 



If left alone, particularly if there are children, people sometimes con- 

 tinue to " agree to disagree" very amiably ; but if they are surrounded l>v 

 tlu-ir relatives never. 



What unhappy wife would not go at once to her father and mother and 

 complain ? 



How could they help sympathizing ? And then the cord is broken. 

 The moment the domestic question is carried up to a higher court, the 

 first judge retires, and will have no more to do with the case. A man 

 never forgives this appeal. No wonder a man in such a case hates his 

 mother-in-law ; for, if he had been alone on a desert island with his wife, 

 they might have fought it out, kissed, and became friends. 



So there is great reason for not taking the young couple home. If they 

 quarrel, the partisanship of either side will never be forgiven by the other 

 side. Matrimonial quarrels, therefore, to be curable must be confined 

 to the high principals. There are, of course, people in this world great 

 and good enough to live with others, to " live at home " ; but they are 

 very few. 



IX. 

 A PROFESSION FOB DUE SONS. 



CHANCELLOR KENT said, in his wise way, that the citizen who did not 

 give his son a profession or a trade was wronging the state. Every one 

 must have something to do. The idle man is a dangerous man. It is a 

 pity that every boy can not learn a profession and a trade. In the 

 troublous times which we have just gone through we have seen how much 

 1> -Her it was to be a shoemaker than to be a lawyer. The professional 

 men nearly starved. 



Madame de Genlis said that she knew seventy trades by any one of 



which she could have earned a living. She taught the sons of Philip 



Jitd to make shoes, pocket-books, brooms, brushes, hats, coats, and all 



ts of cabinet-work. She taught them literature, science, and music; 



had them instructed in watch-making and dock -making, and even in the 



of killing and cutting up a sheep. They found many of these resources 



valuable in exile; and it is strange that it has not occurred to those who 



have boys who are not princes to do the same. A boy could learn to be a 



carpenter while preparing for college, and could study his Latin, Greek, 



and Mathematics with a better brain for the exercise. 



