If a woman loves her husband and desires to keep him for herself and family, she must train herself for her many varied duties including attractiveness, which is a real duty.
If she thinks that some other woman has her husband's affection, her thoughts help her to make this so. If she voices the suspicion she fertilizes the soil and aids the growth or she may crystallize and give form to rumor.
Even if there is ground for such a suspicion the up-to-date wife would not admit it to herself or voice the fact.
"Man's love is of man's life a part, 'tis woman's whole existence."
The inexperienced wives forget that they cannot satisfy every mood of a man without study or effort, unless they are remarkably gifted. Many a wife has neglected her mind, body and powers and when some woman with developed powers enters her marriage orbit, she flies off at a tangent, admits defeat and gets a divorce without putting forth an effort to win back the husband who is often worth saving.
It is humiliating to admit, "I have lost my husband!" A wife should never admit it, even in thought.
Many a man does not intend to stray and loves his wife but he has been carried off his feet just for the moment.
There are Keeley cures to save men, why not husband cures to save homes, especially those with children whose futures are at stake.
I know several colored women who have had good ground for doubting their husband's fidelity who have never allowed the men to know that they have doubted them.
One wife made a study of "the woman in the case" and threw her and her husband together in her home until the man was satiated. In the meantime she studied herself and the woman to see what it was that attracted her husband. Then she went into training for the match—war—if it should come to that—in attractiveness, and she won without telling her secret.