CHAPTER IV.

ESSENTIALS IN HUSBAND AND HOME.

Requisites in a good husband.--Woman's love of home and its adornments.--Keeping up the courtship.--The home, the club, and the loafing-place.--An instance in point.--The right of the wife to share the husband's recreations, diversions and pleasures.--The wife's greater need of relaxation and diversion.--Dr. Farrar's picture of a considerate husband.--Woman's love of being wooed.--Not marriage, but the parties to it, often a failure.--Degraded views concerning women often held.--Domineering wives and husbands.--The Zuni Indians.--The Scriptural teaching.--Industry essential to happiness in the home.--The claims of religion to be recognized.--The conditions of the wicked and godly contrasted.--The promise of the life that now is, as well as that which is to come, 53