Nothing is more absurd or
out of place. I do not think there could be so dangerous a foe to the
peace of the wife, in case the young man do not think his friend has
married wisely,--and he must think so, or he would himself have married
her if he could have done so. His criticisms will estrange the husband's
heart and cool his love. On the other hand, if he has admired the lady,
then the situation is all the more atrocious.
THOSE HORRIBLE EVENTS IN LIFE,
where a man's home is transformed suddenly into what has been bitterly
but justly termed a "hell on earth," are more than half the time
traceable to the carelessness of the husband in not throwing around his
wife those barriers which shall ever keep her from temptation. The wife
of pure instincts will generally object to the admission of another man
to her home as a member of it. How often her womanly and honorable
objection is overruled by the husband as the mark of an inhospitable
nature. Live alone. Let no one see your meannesses, for the third party
will remember and recite those meannesses where you would either never
have seen them, or have forgotten them altogether.
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