180 WHAT FORMS SHOULD AND SHOULD NOT MARRY. 



lean or fat, may marry those who are medium or nearly 

 like themselves in these respects, or in either extreme. 



Thus those whose hair is neither dark nor light, may 

 marry those having hair a shade darker or lighter than them- 

 selves, or even a good deal darker or lighter or even jet black 

 or bright red, as they may fancy, or as other circumstances 

 may favor most, the complexion being not specially material, 

 yet the darker one is, the lighter his or her companion 

 should be. 



Bright red hair should marry jet black, and jet black, 

 auburn or bright red, and the more red-faced and bearded 

 or impulsive the man, the more calm, cool, and quiet the 

 wife should be. The florid should not marry the florid, but 

 those who are as dark in proportion as they themselves are 

 light. 



Red whiskered men should marry brunettes, but not 

 blondes, the color of the whiskers being more determinate 

 of the temperament than the hair. 



The color of the eyes is still more important. Gray 

 eyes must marry some other, almost any other-color than 

 gray, and so of blue, dark, hazel, etc. 



Very fleshy persons should not marry those equally 

 fleshy, but choose those more spare and slim. A spare man 

 is much better adapted to a fleshy woman than a round 

 favored man. Two who are short, thick-set and stocky 

 should not unite in marriage, but should choose those dif- 

 ferently constituted. 



Those who have little hair or beard by nature should 

 marry those whose hair is naturally abundant. Still those 

 who once had abundance, and have lost it, may marry those 

 who are either bald or have little ; for in this, as in all 

 other cases, far more depends on what one was by nature than 

 on present conditions. 



Those who are bony, only moderately fleshy, quite 

 prominent featured, Roman-nosed and muscular should not 

 marry those similarly formed, but those either sanguine or 

 nervous, or a compound of both ; for being more strong 



