The whole marriage question revolves about a single point:
The man wants him a woman,—a woman who shall be his and only his;
The woman wants her a head of a home. And here again, and once again, we see the difference between the sexes:—
The one thing that the man wants is: a mate;
The one thing that a woman wants is: a head and provider of a household.
The man's thoughts never go beyond the woman;
The woman's thoughts always and at once travel far beyond the man—to the children, the household, the home. This is great Nature's inexorable law. But little knows the woman, and less knows the man, that the nubile girl is merely obeying great Nature's inexorable law.
What price woman pays for her high office! for in this implicit, unquestioning, and unconscious obedience to Nature she performs perhaps her highest function. On all accounts, therefore, let us
Pity women! They obey so faithfully great Nature's law, and Nature so often plays them false—so very false, and so very often. Besides,
The woman who gives her hand without her heart finds in time that she has made a sorry bargain—a sorrier bargain, perhaps, that the woman who gives her heart with out her hand. For,