Men are often as easily caught as birds, but as difficult to keep.

If the wife cannot make her home bright and happy, so that it shall be the cleanest, sweetest, cheerfulest place that her husband can find refuge in--a retreat from the toils and troubles of the outer world--then God help the poor man, for he is virtually homeless! No wise person will marry for beauty mainly.

It may exercise a powerful attraction in the first place, but it is found to be of comparatively little consequence afterwards.

Not that beauty of person is to be underestimated, for, other things being equal, handsomeness of form and beauty of features are the outward manifestations of health.

But to marry a handsome figure without character, fine features unbeautified by sentiment or good-nature, is the most deplorable of mistakes.