Index
Acquiescence, [102], [109]
Adjustments, marital, [9-11], [16], [104-110]
Adolescence, [119], [158]
Adopted children, [94-96]
Advancement, wife's contribution to business, [142-153]
Affection, security of, [159]
Allowance, wife's, [16], [49]
Ambition, [6], [164]
American Eugenic Society, [90]-[91]
Antagonism, emotional, [104-105]
Apartment houses, [20-21]
Appearance, preserving attractive, [78-79]
Appliance replacements, [70-71]
Art museums, visits to, [25], [119]
Assessments, property, [72]
Automobile:
depreciation of, [70]
expenses, [69-70]
Baby:
bonds, [84]
budget, [88]
time for first, [82-84]
Bacon, Lord, [90]
Banks, savings, [67]
Banning, Margaret Culkin, [25]
Baseball, [17]
Biologies, [118]
Biologists, heredity studies of, [32]
Birth:
control methods, [23]
questions of, [114-116], [118]
rate, [41]
season of, [33]
weather and, [33-34]
Birthdays, eminent people's, [33-34]
Blood tests, [22]
Blunders, marriage, [1-2], [5], [8], [20-21], [48], [97-110]
Boredom, [161], [165]
Borrowing, budget and, [19], [71], [84]
Brides-to-be, advice to, [17]
Bridge, advice on, [17]
British Dictionary of National Biography, [34]
Browning, Robert, [127], [138-139]
Budget:
baby, [88]
borrowing and, [71]
family, [67-79]
Business:
failures, [141-142]
wife's aid in, [141-153]
Bussing, Elizabeth, [66-79]
Buying (see Purchasing)
Careers, wives', [43-53]
Carlyle, [133]
Cells, sperm, [35], [117]
Challenge, marriage, [1]
Character:
courtship candidate's, [6]
development, [128-129], [164]
Chastity, benefits of, [25]
Checking account, wife's, [16]
Cheerfulness, wife's, [147]
Child marriages, [118]
Children:
adopted, [94-96]
clothes of, [78]
cost of, [46], [69], [82-84], [89-90]
cultural value of, [42]
economic readiness for, [40-42], [82-84], [90]
emotional stability of, [113]
environment of, [95]
feeding, [82]
health of, [28], [78], [82-83]
heritage rights of, [28]
illegitimate, [94]
insurance for, [71-72]
lack of, [29-30], [93-94]
marital conflict and, [161-162]
medical care of, [28], [78], [82-83]
monogamy and, [162]
number of, [40-42], [82-83], [90]
nursing, [83]
parents' responsibility to, [161-162]
planning for, [16], [28-29], [31], [40-42], [46], [69], [80-96], [107]
pleasures of, [82]
postponing, [46]
preparing for, [16]
saving for, [40-42], [82-84], [90]
sex activities of, [121-125]
sex instruction of, [111-125]
sliding-wage scale for, [91]
spoiled, [159]
toys of, [78]
Christian faith, [137]
Church attendance, [134-135]
City apartment houses, [20-21]
Clothing:
allowances, [69-70], [73], [78], [97], [146-147]
child's, [78]
depreciation of, [70]
party, [4]
wife's, [146-147]
College students:
marriage courses, [12], [25]
premarital examination of, [10-12]
Compromises, [57-59]
Concentrated intimacy, [60-61]
Concerts, [17]
Conflict, avoiding marital, [97-110]
Constitutional vigor, [33-34]
Contempt, [104]
Conversation:
benefits of good, [18]
wife's, [146-147]
Cooperation, [103-104]
Courage, [7], [103]
Courts, avoiding divorce, [97-110]
Courtship, [1-12]
Courtship candidate:
character of, [5-6]
courage of, [7]
mental growth of, [6]
wearing qualities of, [5-6]
Cowardice, [102-103]
Criticism, [16]
Culture, aids to, [142]
Date, wedding, [16]
Day-to-day expenses, [70]
Death statistics, [32]
Debt, dangers of, [19], [71], [84]
Defective teeth, [30]
de Maupassant, Guy, [131]
Dental bills, [77]
Dependence, mutual, [48]
Dependents:
marriage and, [19]
provision for, [70]
Depreciation allowances, [70-71]
Diabetes, [30]
Dickinson, Stanley G., [140-153]
Diet, [34]
Dinner-table conversation, [147]
Dionne quintuplets, [118]
Disappointments, marriage, [1-2], [5], [8], [20-21], [48], [97-110]
Disease statistics, [32]
Divorce:
averting, [97-110]
grounds for, [29]
rates, [14], [20-21]
Doctor:
bills, [77-78]
certificate of fitness by, [22]
counseling service of, [10], [25-26], [30], [36-37], [92-93]
Dress (see Clothing)
Drummond, Henry, [137]
Duncan, Matthews, [93]
Durable goods budget, [70-71]
Duty, marriage, [27-42]
Earning power:
husband's, [66-69], [141]
wife's, [73-74]
Economy, domestic, [66-79], [97]
Education:
health, [35]
religious, [126-139]
sex, [9-10], [12], [111-125], [128]
Elementary school children, sex instruction of, [114]
Emotional:
antagonism, [104-105]
instability, [31-32], [36], [142], [144], [159-160]
reactions, [4-5]
restraint, [8]
stability, [13], [34], [61-62]
Emotions:
checking runaway, [159-160]
child's, [113]
Employment, wife's outside, [21], [73-74]
Engagement:
intimacy of, [16]
length of, [18]
period, [13-26]
Engineering school, marriage and, [19]
England, birthdays in, [33]
Entertainment expense, [76-77], [147]
Environment:
child's, [95]
defects, [32-36]
home, [140-141]
postnatal, [35-36]
pre-natal, [35-36]
Eugenics, progress of, [36]
Everyday life, party manners versus, [4]
Examinations, medical, [10-12], [22], [28-29], [36], [94]
Exercise, benefits of, [17-18], [76-77]
Expense, marriage, [66-79], [88]
Extravagance, [75], [78]
Eyesight, poor, [30]
Failures, marriage, [1-2], [5], [8], [20-21], [97-110]
Faith:
Christian, [137]
religious, [126-139]
Family:
budget, [16], [18], [67-79], [140-141]
doctor, [10], [25-26], [30], [36-37], [92-93]
income, [16], [49]
insurance, [71-72]
jokes, [107]
joys, [106-107]
planning, [28-29], [31], [80-96]
size of, [40-42], [82-83], [90]
support of, [66-79], [108]
welfare, [109-110]
Father fixation, [6-7]
Fatigue statistics, [32]
Fault-finding, avoidance of, [16]
Faust, [133]
Feeblemindedness, [31]
Fertilization, [114], [117-118]
Financial:
independence, [48-49]
planning, [16], [18], [45], [66-79]
Fingers, misshaped, [30]
Fire insurance, [72]
Fishing, [17]
Fitness:
for marriage, [22], [27-42]
physical, [28-31]
Food:
budget, [68-70], [73], [82]
child's [82]
France, birthdays in, [33]
Frankness, [108]
Friends, value of, [20-21], [60]
Fuel, cost of, [69]
Furniture replacements, [70-71]
Gallagher, E. G., [94]
Germany, birthdays in, [33]
Gifted women, [52-53]
Golf, [17]
Good Housekeeping:
Health and Happiness Club, [84]
marriage-relations course, [140]
Gospels, reading of, [134-135]
Grooms-to-be, advice to, [17-18]
Groves, Dr. Ernest R., [1-12], [154-166]
Groves, Gladys Hoagland, [54-65], [154-166]
Grudges, surrender of, [104]
Guidance:
marriage, [3], [9-10], [12], [25-26], [30], [36-37], [56-65], [92-93]
Hardy, Thomas [137]
Harelip, [30]
Harmony, home and business, [142-153]
Harper, President, [129]
Hart, Dr. Hornell, [97-110]
Health:
and Happiness Club, [84]
child, [28]
education, [35]
ideal temperatures for, [33]
weather influences on, [32-34]
Heart ailments, [30]
Heat, cost of, [69]
Hereditary defects, [30-36]
Heredity studies, [32]
High school children, sex instruction of, [114-115], [118]
Hobbies, [17]
Home:
acquiring equipment for, [16]
childless, [29-30]
children spoiled at, [159]
cultural value of, [42]
environment, [140-141], [143]
happiness in, [28], [107]
harmony of business and, [142-153]
moral code of, [124-125]
location of, [20-21]
ownership, [71-73]
planning, [21]
purchase price of, [73]
religion in, [126-139]
renting, [67-70], [72-74]
sex instruction in, [111-125]
stability of, [162]
Honeymoon arrangements, [20]
Hospital:
bills, [74], [77-78], [83]
plan, [77]
Household management, [44]
Hudson, on shepherd's home, [166]
Human:
genetics, [36]
reproduction, [114-120]
Huntington, Dr. Ellsworth, [22], [27-42], [89]
Husband:
dependence of wife and, [48]
selection of, [3-5]
understanding, [107]
Idiots, [31]
Illegitimate children, [94]
Imbeciles, [31]
Income:
husband's, [66-69], [141]
wife's outside, [73-74]
Incubator babies, [118]
Indebtedness, marriage and, [19], [71], [84]
India, birthdays in, [33]
Infatuations, [159-160]
Inheritance, child's, [28]
Inge, Dean, [135]
Instruction:
religious, [126-139]
sex, [9-10], [12], [111-125], [128]
Insurance:
benefits to children, [71-72]
choice of, [18-19]
fire, [72]
life, [67], [71-73]
renewable term, [71-72]
straight life, [71]
Intemperance, [24], [158]
Interests, development of, [146]
Intimacy, undue concentration of, [60-61]
Irritants, elimination of, [105-106]
Jealousy, [16], [104]
Jokes, family, [107]
Joys, family, [106-170]
Junior-high-school children, sex instruction of, [118]
Kenyon, Dr. Josephine Hemenway, [84]
Laboratory experiments, controlled, [32-33]
Law school, marriage and, [19]
Lease, ownership versus, [67-70], [72-74]
Leisure, [142]
License, marriage, [22]
Life:
adjustments, [63]
changed ways of, [7-8]
everyday, [4]
intimacy of married, [54-65]
joys of married, [127], [140-153]
mode of, [34]
refinements of, [142]
successful married, [13-15], [22], [54-65], [102-110], [140-153], [163-164]
Life insurance:
company budget forms, [67]
provision for, [71]
savings aspect of, [72-73]
straight, [71]
Literature, sex, [9-10], [12]
Longevity:
vigor and, [33-34]
weather and, [33-34]
Love:
aids to, [163]
earlier, [15]
falling in, [13]
quarrels, [16], [157]
Luxury clothes, [73]
Manners, party, [4]
Marriage:
adjustments, [9-11], [16], [104-110]
benefits of, [140-153]
blunders, [1-2], [5], [8], [20-21], [48], [97-110]
challenge, [1]
child, [118]
clinics, [25]
college courses on, [25]
conferences on, [25]
dependents and, [19]
during post-graduate training, [19]
during professional training, [19], [68-69]
duties, [27-42]
engineering school and, [19]
expenses, [66-79]
failures, [1-2], [5], [8], [20-21], [48], [97-110]
fitness for, [22], [27-42]
guidance, [3], [9-10], [12], [25-26], [30], [36-37], [56-65], [92-93]
happiness, [127], [140-153]
hasty, [18]
in poverty, [46-47]
law school and, [19]
license, [22]
moral conduct after, [16]
of under-graduates, [19]
outside occupations after, [43-53]
overestimating, [8], [157]
personality adjustments after, [9-11], [16], [104]
postponement, [19-20], [23]
preparatory courses, [12], [14], [17], [25], [140]
program of action, [108-109]
progress, [63-65]
relations course, [140]
right, [27-42]
rules for successful, [13-15], [22], [54-65], [102-110], [140-153], [163-164]
secret, [20], [23]
sex experience before, [23-26]
sliding-wage scale for, [91]
spiritual side of, [24]
statistical studies, [14-15]
testing period, [157]
training, [12], [14], [17], [25], [140]
unfitness for, [30-36]
union, [56-57]
vacations from, [17]
while indebted, [19]
wisdom of, [27-42]
Marshall, Dr. Jessie, [80-96]
Mate (see Wife)
Mating, [114], [117-118]
McConaughy, Dr. James L., [13-26]
Meaker, Dr. Samuel R., [94]
Meals, child's, [82]
Mechanical appliances, cost of, [70-71]
Medical:
advice, [10], [25-26], [30], [36-37], [92-93]
care of child, [78], [82-83]
examinations, [10-12], [22], [28-29], [36], [94]
expense, [77-78]
profession (see Doctors)
Menstruation, [119]
Mental:
deficiency, [31-32]
inherited ability, [34]
growth, [6], [78-79], [142]
Meredith, George, [129-130]
Mills, Professor C. A., [35]
Misshaped fingers, [30]
Mismating, [15]
Mistakes, marriage, [1-2], [5], [8], [20-21], [48], [97-110]
Monogamy:
benefits of, [154-166]
children and, [162]
Monotony, averting, [161], [165]
Moral conduct, [16]
More, Paul Elmer, [136]
Morons, [31]
Mother fixation, [6-7], [99-101]
Museums, visits to, [25]
Music appreciation, [17]
Natural history, [118-119]
Nagging, avoidance of, [16]
Novak, Dr. Emil, [92]
Nursing expense, [78], [83]
Occupation:
choice of, [27]
wives' outside, [43-53]
Organic diseases, [92]
Outdoor sports, [76-77]
Overton, death of, [134]
Parenthood:
age for, [82-84]
responsibilities of, [2], [16-1621]
Parents:
domination by, [14], [20-21], [99-101]
living with, [21]
Party:
dress, [4]
expenses, [76-77], [97]
manners, [4]
Personal:
budget, [67-79]
growth, [142]
Personality adjustments, [16], [55-56]
Pets, value of, [118]
Phelps, William Lyon, [126-139]
Physical examination (see Medical examination)
Physical exercise, [76-77]
Physical fitness:
doctor's certificate of, [22]
preserving, [28-34], [78-79]
Physical vigor, [33-34]
Physician (see Doctor)
Picnicking, [76]
Plato, [164]
Play, benefits of, [76-77]
Pluck, courtship candidate's, [7]
Pocket money, wife's, [16], [49]
Poise, development of, [146]
Post-graduate training, marriage during, [19]
Postnatal environment, [35-36]
Postponement, marriage, [19-20], [23]
Poverty, marriage in, [46-47]
Prayer, [134]
Pregnancy, [92], [114-115], [118]
Premarital:
courses of study, [12]
relations, [23-24]
Premiums, insurance, [71-72]
Pre-natal environment, [35-36]
Pre-school children, sex instruction of, [114]
Pretense, avoidance of, [74]
Profession, choice of, [27]
Professional training, marriage during, [19], [68-69]
Program of action, joint, [108-109]
Property:
assessments, [72]
taxes, [73]
upkeep, [73], [76]
Psychiatrists, advice of, [6]
Psychic trauma, [124]
Purchasing economies, [75-76]
Quintuplets, occurrence of, [88]
Radio appreciation, [17]
Rates, insurance, [71-72]
Recreation expense, [73], [76-77]
Refrigeration costs, [70]
Religion in home, [126-139]
Reno, avoiding, [1-2], [5], [8], [20-21], [97-110]
Rents, [67-70], [72-74]
Reproduction:
human, [114-120]
seasonal cycle of, [33-34]
Resentment, [104]
Residence, location of, [20-21]
Respect, mutual, [59-60]
Responsibilities, wife's, [142-153]
Right, marriage, [27-42]
Romance:
aids to, [8], [16-17]
careless seeking of, [101]
Roosevelt, Eleanor, [43-53]
Russia, birthdays in, [33]
Savings accounts, [72-73], [97]
Savings banks, budget forms of, [67]
Scientific method, [14-15]
Scolding, avoidance of, [16]
Season of birth, [33]
Secret marriages, [20], [23]
Selection, wise mate, [3-5]
Self-acquaintance, [4-5]
Self-centered engrossment, [60-61]
Self-consciousness, [31]
Self-control, [31]
Self-discipline, [8]
Self-expansion, [163]
Selfishness, [32], [57-59], [103]
Seminal emissions, [119]
Sex:
adjustments, [9-11], [63]
education, [9-10], [12], [111-125], [128]
experience before marriage, [23-26]
frustration, [98-99], [101]
literature, [9-10], [12]
mannerisms, [55-56]
meeting opposite, [3-4]
misdemeanors, [121-125]
technique, [9-11]
temperaments, [55-56]
Shakespeare, [135]
Shelter, cost of, [67-70]
Short-sightedness, [30]
Social affairs:
expense of, [76-77]
planning, [147]
Social group:
keeping up with, [74]
vigor of, [158]
Social training, [132]
Sousa, John Philip, [136]
Spain, birthdays in, [33]
Spending, orderly, [66-79]
Sperm cells, [35], [117]
Spiritual development, [126-139]
Spoiled child, [159]
Sports:
encouragement of, [17-18]
outdoor, [76-77]
Statistical studies, marriage, [14-15]
Sterility, [29-30], [93-94]
Straight life insurance, [71]
Strain, Frances Bruce, [111-125]
Sunday:
observance of, [134]
recreation, [134]
School, [133]
Success, marriage, [13-15], [22], [54-65], [102-110], [140-153], [163-164]
Support, family, [66-79]
Sweden, birthdays in, [33]
Syphilis, [28]
Tact, [16]
Tastes, [55-56]
Taxes, property, [73]
Teeth:
care of, [77]
defective, [30]
Temper, loss of, [31]
Temperament, [55-56]
Temperatures, health, [33]
Tennyson, [127], [138]
Term insurance, renewable, [71-72]
Theatre expenses, [76], [147]
Toys, child's, [78]
Training (see Education)
Traveling expense, [68-69], [76]
Trust, mutual, [63-64]
Turgenev, [127]
Twins, recurrence of, [88]
Undergraduates, marriage of, [19]
Union, building marriage, [56-57]
United States, birthdays in, [33]
Upkeep, property, [73], [76]
Uterus, [115]
Vacation allowances, [76]
Venereal disease, [25], [28]
Vigor:
longevity and, [33-34]
society's, [158]
Wages:
husband's, [66-69], [141]
sliding scale of, [91]
wife's, [73-74]
Wearing character, courtship candidate's, [5-6]
Weather:
child conception and, [33-34]
longevity and, [33-34]
Wedding date, fixing, [16], [20]
Welfare, family, [109]
Wife:
aid to business progress, [141-153]
allowances, [16], [49]
attitude of, [4]
characteristics of, [4], [6]
checking account of, [16]
cheerfulness of, [147]
childless, [72]
conversational ability of, [146-147]
dependence of husband and, [48]
emotional reactions of, [4-5]
entertaining ability of, [147]
gifted, [52-53]
home allowances of, [16], [49]
house, [44]
income control by, [16]
insurance for, [72]
mental growth of, [6], [78-79], [142]
outside employment of, [21], [43-53], [73-74]
selection of, [3-5]
support of, [66-79]
understanding, [107-108]
Women (see Wife)
Work:
ideal conditions of, [32]
wife's outside, [21], [43-53], [73-74]
Zoological gardens, [119]