9. Start From Where Your Parents Started Rather than from Where They Now Are.—Hollow and showy boarding often furnishes the too strong temptation, while the quietness of a humble home would cement the hearts beyond risk.
10. Avoid Debt.—Spend your own money, but earn it first, then it will not be necessary to blame any one for spending other people's.
11. Do Not Both Get Angry at the Same Time.—Remember, it takes two to quarrel.
12. Do Not Allow Yourself Ever to Come to an Open Rupture.—Things unsaid need less repentance.
13. Study to Conform Your Tastes and Habits to the Tastes and Habits of Your Companion.—If two walk together, they must agree.
How to Be a Good Wife.
1. Reverence Your Husband.—He sustains by God's order a position of dignity as head of a family, head of the woman. Any breaking down of this order indicates a mistake in the union, or a digression from duty.
2. Love Him.—A wife loves as naturally as the sun shines. Love is your best weapon. You conquered him with that in the first place. You can reconquer by the same means.