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Marriage. 
(lIOW TO MAKE MARRIED LIFE HAPPY.) 
HE following maxims, if pul into practice daily, would do much to 
promote harmony and good feeling in the home: 
“Never make a remark at the expense of the other; it is meanness.” 
“Never manifest anger.” 
“Never speak loud to each other—unless the house is on fire.” 
“Never reflect on a past action which was done with a, good motive, 
and with the best judgment,—or even if rashly or maliciously done.” 
“Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. 
Besides, it may be that you will not meet again in this life!” 
“Let each strive to yield oftenest to the wishes of the other, which 
is the mutual cultivation of an absolute unselfishness.” 
Tennyson, in beautiful and prophetic words, sings thus of the per¬ 
fect union of husband and wife: 
“In the long years liker must they grow; 
The man be more of woman, she of man; 
He gain in sweetness and in moral height, 
Nor lose the wrestling thews that throw the world; 
She in mental breadth, nor fail in cliildward care. 
Nor lose the childlike in the larger mind. 
Till at last she set herself to man. 
Like perfect music, unto noble words; 
And so these twain, upon the skirts of Time, 
Sit side by side, full-summ’d in all their powers. 
Dispensing harvest, sowing the To-Be, 
Self-reverent each, and reverencing each, 
Distinct in individualities. 
But like each other e’en as those who love: 
Then comes the statelier Eden back to man.” 
