The promissory note of marriage is undated and unendorsed. But
Children act as collateral security.
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How often a girl, even an affianced girl, accustomed to a multiplicity of admirers, forgets the man of her ultimate choice she must then and there set above all other claimants!
If the man the woman chooses for husband does not stand in her estimation absolutely first and all other claimants nowhere there is bound sooner or later to be trouble. For
No man will play second fiddle to any body or any thing; and
The realm amatory is a monarchial, not a republican, one. In all realms, there must be a ruler, whether elected or hereditary.
Always a divided sway results in schism, whether in the family or in the state. And although
Often enough the wife proves herself the more effective Sovereign, the forms of monarchy must be conceded to the man, even though the executive is left to the woman.
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