"And in that perfect Marriage Day
All earth's lost love shall live once more;
All lack and loss shall pass away,
And all find all not found before;
Till all the worlds shall live and glow
In that great love's great overflow."
INDEX.
Adam and Eve, their history repeated every day, [61];
had no relations-in-law in Paradise, [110].
Advertisement, An, [34].
Affection, A genius for, [39];
conjugal, largely depends on mutual confidence, [106].
Age, Marriageable, of women, [37];
proper for a husband, [48].
A Kempis, Thomas, Wise sentence of, [220].
Alderman, Exclamation of the, [208].
Alleine, Joseph, describes the inconveniences of a wife, [11].
Appearances not to be entirely disregarded nor regarded too much, [126]-8.
Arnold, Dr., on dying childless, [148];
as a father, [179]-80;
adapted correction to each particular case, [208];
the "almost awful happiness" of his domestic life, [256].
Astor, John Jacob, on the care of property, [35].
Attila, A domestic, [59].
Aurelius, Marcus, on co-operation, [216].
Bacon, Lord, on marriage and celibacy, [14];
on abridging expenses, [120];
quotes the saying of a wise man, [128].
Baird, Sir David, Anecdote of, [218].
Baxter nursed in prison by his wife, [23].
Beaconsfield, Lord, his opinion about marrying, [10];
anecdote of, [23];
his description of his wife, [41].
Beauty, Not wise to marry for, [36];
health a condition of, [245].
Bells, why are ladies like them? [40];
article on, in the Quarterly Review, [266].
Belfast papers, The, letter in, [265].
Bismarck, Prince, made by his wife, [23].
Blaikie, Professor, on "How to get rid of trouble," [195].
Boswell, his "matrimonial thought," [82].
Braxfield, Lord, on the benefit of being hanged, [62].
Bridegroom, Dutch courage of, [72];
driven to desperation, [83].
Brontë, Charlotte, her last words, [260].
Bunyan shown the pathway to heaven by his wife, [22].
"Buried Alive," a Russian story referred to, [205].
Burke on his domestic felicity, [23];
describes his wife's eyes, [189].
Burleigh, Lord, advice to his son on the choice of a wife, [42].
Burmah, Young men of, cured of aversion to marriage, [12].
Bermuda, Servants in, [129].
Burns on the qualities of a good wife, [41].
Burton, Robert, for and against matrimony, [13], [14];
tells of a remedy for a husband's impatience, [203];
gives instances of love surviving marriage, [255]-6.
Byron, Lord, tells a story of a learned Jew, [88];
spoiled by his mother, [166].
Carlyle, Thomas, his inscription upon his wife's tombstone, [28];
advice to the discontented, [62];
cautions a servant "abounding in grace," [135];
the way he and his wife pulled together, [218];
his definition of "holy," [244];
on dyspepsia, [246];
his way of expressing sympathy, [247];
birthday presents to his wife, [257]-8;
his remorse, [270].
Carlyle, Mrs., her advice, [49];
her "mutinous maids of all work," [135];
describes Mrs. Leigh Hunt's housekeeping, [224]-5;
her culinary trials, [225];
"If he would only be satisfied!" [237].
Castile, Admiral of, his saying about marrying a wife, [10].
Catacombs at Rome, Inscriptions in, [136], [261].
Celibacy has less pleasure and less pain than marriage, [10];
an unnatural state, [16].
Cobbe, Miss, on the moral atmosphere of the house, [194].
Cobbett on the wretchedness of old bachelorship, [17];
on industry in a wife, [39];
"comforts" his wife, [96];
an interesting bit of autobiography, [105];
a soldier's philosophy, [172];
"He never disappointed me in his life," [241].
Conjugal felicity, Secret of, [6];
largely depends on mutual confidence, [106].
Connoisseur, Hasty exclamation of a, [65].
Courtship, Love-making should not end with, [5], [229];
people unknown to each other during, [53], [80];
with lawyer's advice, [125];
the tempestuous love of does not remain, [255].
Chambers' Journal gives instances of matrimonial tribulation, [57].
Chesterfield on behaviour to servants, [134].
Chicago, A young lady of, [124].
Children, Only, [149];
quality more to be desired than quantity of, [150];
imitate their elders, [158].
China, Narrative of a journey through the south border lands of, [91].
Clarendon printing-office, [58].
Clergymen, Sons of, [173].
Clerk, A married, excuses himself, [148].
Cowper and his mother, [164].
Curran felt his wife and children tugging at his gown, [24];
his mother and father, [165].
Dale, R. W., of Birmingham, believes in falling in love, [47].
Daughters, Fourteen of my, [150].
David, King, lays up materials for his son, [145].
Dealer, A Scotch, "tried baith," [32];
confesses the failings of a horse, [235].
De Sales, St. Francis, on quarrels, [103].
De Tocqueville, Letter of, about his wife, [21].
Dickens tells an American story, [50].
Dictionary, a town—why so called, [55].
Digestion disturbed by "a few words," [208].
Diogenes, why he struck a father, [173].
Dress indicates character, [39].
Dulness a "serious complaint," [89].
Dunmow flitch, The, [212].
Edison, Anecdote of, [33].
Emerson thinks children always interesting, [147].
Eliot, George, on marriage, [6];
on disappointment, [57];
remarks about the best society, [115],
weak women, [145];
"Silas Marner" referred to, [155], [215], [236].
Ellenborough, Lord, Anecdote of, [188].
Erskine illustrates the fact that union is strength, [216].
Eve "kept silence to hear her husband talk," [209].
Exactingness causes domestic misery, [219].