(1) Do not open each other's letters. (For one reason you might not like the contents.) And try not to look liberal if you don't even glance at the address or the postmark.
(2) Vary your pursuits, your conversation, and your clothes. If required, vary your hair.
(3) If you absolutely must be sincere, let it be in private.
(4) (Especially for wives.) Find out on the honeymoon whether crying or swearing is the more effective.
(5) Once a day say to a wife: "I love you"; to a husband: "How strong you are!" If the latter remark is ridiculous, say: "How clever you are!" for everybody believes that.
(6) Forgive your partner seventy times seven. Then burn the ledger.
FOOTNOTES
[1] The notes as to Case 51 have not an absolute bearing upon logic in general, but the reasons put forth in her defense by Case 51 are indicative of a certain kind of logic which is not masculine. I must add that Case 51 is a woman of very good education, with many general interests.—The Author.
[2] Probably owing to woman's having for centuries been taught to regard the vain aspirations of the male as her perquisites.—The Author.
[3] I have observed for two years the steady growth in the accuracy of the work of Case 33, due to her having concentrated upon her instinctive inaccuracy.—The Author.
[4] See "Uniforms for Women," and observe extreme figures and details of feminine expenditure on clothes.
[5] I associate the arts with intellectual quality. (See "Woman and the Paintpot.") Broadly, I believe that all achievements, artistic or otherwise, proceed from intellect.
[6] La Femme dans le Théâtre d'Ibsen, by Friedericke Boettcher.—The Author.
[7] My Past, by Countess Marie Larisch.
[8] Note: This chapter should be taken as the summary of an intellectual position. Its points are considered in detail in the four chapters that follow.