MARRIED LIFE 



disappointment and unhappiness be the logical result 

 yet most often, the love that mutually began in youth 

 grows stronger with each passing year. 



In no other relation can be together joined the in- 

 telligent and cultivated mind, " that knows us better 

 than we know ourselves : " the Intuition that so 

 often wisely counsels or dissuades ; the careful guar- 

 dian of our home and all within it; the gentle com- 

 panion, whose love, sympathy and interest share in all 

 the pleasures and the sorrows of our life. Our chil- 

 dren's lives grow away from us. Our past and their fu- 

 ture can have little in common ; our nearest friends, 

 still less. But he who is blessed with such a wife 

 should truly thank God for the greatest of all His 

 gifts, for the very sunlight of his existence ! , 



When, with the flight of time, her children come 

 upon the scene, the earnest cares of life come with 

 them. It is now her part to feel for them that love 

 that in her infancy had been lavished on her. Until 

 now she scarcely felt and surely never valued fully, 

 the parents' fears, the hopes, the nights and days of 

 anxious watching, the deep affection that gives so 

 much and asks so little. 



Our beginning, infancy, is identical with the un- 

 conscious life of the lowest orders. Scarcely higher 

 than the vegetative plane, it is dependent, absolutely 

 for all but breath, upon a mother's care. All adult 



