HOW TO BE HAPPY THOUGH MARRIED.

HOW TO BE HAPPY THOUGH MARRIED

BEING A

Handbook to Marriage

BY

A Graduate in the University of Matrimony

"Domestic happiness, thou only bliss

Of Paradise that hast survived the fall!

Though few now taste thee, unimpaired and pure,

Or, tasting, long enjoy thee, too infirm

Or too incautious to preserve thy sweets

Unmixed with drops of bitters, which neglect

Or temper sheds into thy crystal cup."-Cowper.

"It is fit that I should infuse a bunch of myrrh into the festival goblet, and, after
the Egyptian manner, serve up a dead man's bones at a feast: I will only show it, and
take it away again; it will make the wine bitter, but wholesome."-Jeremy Taylor.

New York

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

1886

HVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY

044*219

PRESS OF J. J. LITTLE & CO.

ASTOR PLACE, NEW YORK.

TO THOSE BRAVE MEN AND WOMEN WHO HAVE VENTURED, OR WHO

INTEND TO VENTURE, INTO THAT STATE WHICH IS "A

BLESSING TO A FEW, A CURSE TO MANY, AND A

GREAT UNCERTAINTY TO ALL," THIS BOOK

IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED IN

ADMIRATION OF THEIR

COURAGE.