420 PLAIN FACTS FOR OLD AND YOUNG 



never forget your marriage vow. Too many young 

 men take a wife as they would buy a horse, or any 

 other piece of property, and imagine that as soon as 

 the ceremony is over, the young woman becomes their 

 private property, and that they are at liberty to do 

 what they please. Every husband should recollect that 

 marriage gives him no proprietorship over his wife. 

 Marriage is simply a contract between two individuals, 

 who agree to work in harmony for each other 's mutual 

 advancement and interest. Each one solemnly pledges 

 to protect the rights and regard the interests of the 

 other. 



Think of this, young man, and regulate your con- 

 duct accordingly. First of all, make up your mind 

 that you will not make a beast of yourself. Too many 

 young men behave themselves in such a beastly man- 

 ner during the first week of their married life that they 

 forfeit all right to the respect of their wives, and not 

 infrequently a young woman who, previous to marriage, 

 regarded her affianced as the embodiment of all that 

 is good and pure and noble, has her mental and moral 

 sensibilities so shocked by gross and brutal behavior 

 as soon as the marriage ceremony has placed her in 

 his power, that her love for him is totally exhausted, 

 and often so effectively that it can never be resuscitated. 



Bear this fact in mind, young man. Curb your 

 passions. Control your propensities, and years hence 

 you will look back upon your conduct with a satisfaction 

 which will increase your self-respect, and as you reflect 

 upon the matter, the wealth of a Eothschild would not 

 purchase from you the satisfaction of thinking that 

 you acted the part of a man, rather than that of a beast. 



The brutal conduct of husbands, even on the first 

 night of marriage, not infrequently entails upon their 



