How to Perpetuate The Honey-Moon.
1. Continue Your Courtship.—Like causes produce like effects.
2. Neglect of Your Companion.—Do not assume a right to neglect your companion more after marriage than you did before.
3. Secrets.—Have no secrets that you keep from your companion. A third party is always disturbing.
4. Avoid the Appearance of Evil.—In matrimonial matters it is often that the mere appearance contains all the evil. Love, as soon as it rises above calculation and becomes love, is exacting. It gives all, and demands all.
5. Once Married, Never Open Your Mind to Any Change. If you keep the door of your purpose closed, evil or even desirable changes cannot make headway without help.
6. Keep Step in Mental Development.—A tree that grows for forty years may take all the sunlight from a tree that stops growing at twenty.
7. Keep a Lively Interest in the Business of the Home.—Two that do not pull together are weaker than either alone.
8. Gauge Your Expenses by Your Revenues.—Love must eat. The sheriff often levies on Cupid long before he takes away the old furniture.