you have, and from your courage comes his courage. 

 Women have more grit than men, therefore a woman 

 should never discourage a man, but should display her 

 pleasure at his excellence at trying to succeed. It adds to 

 keep love in circulation. You see love is a delicate thing, 

 but it is valuable, it holds life together. Life without love 

 is only like being in existence, so it pays to study your hus- 

 band's mental wants and needs, you can make your own 

 way of supplying them actually indispensable to him and 

 while you are helping him you are helping yourself also. It 

 is the making of a foundation for future happiness. You 

 can control and guide a man's bad habits if you study his 

 disposition and that your own thoughts are for good. Like 

 a scientific horseshoer's controlling the form and health of a 

 horse's foot, if it hasn't been through neglect forgotten. 



A growing foot is like a bad habit, they are growing 

 evils. As to the horse's foot, the foot is provided by nature 

 to take care of itself, if it is kept at normal size and level. 

 The foot is supplied with moisture and growing material 

 from the blood that circulates through it, but when a foot 

 becomes abnormal this over-growing quantity of hoof is also 

 nourished from the same food or blood, where there is real- 

 ly only enough of it to feed or take care of the normal foot. 

 And, consequently, the whole foot suffers. I wish this to 

 be understood just as it is, and will try and make it clear. 

 Supposing you had food for twelve hogs and then suppose 

 you add four more to them, feeding them from the same 

 food, you know those twelve hogs could not get that which 

 was intended for them because you are feeding four extra 

 hogs from the same quantity of food. You see where there 

 are too many hogs for a certain amount of food it makes 

 the swill rather thin, or, in other words, there isn't enough 

 to go around, and none of them can do well. This same 

 rule applies to horses' feet, when an over-quantity of hoof 

 takes place the normal foot suffers in strength and health. 

 It is necessary, therefore, that horses should be shod every 



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