12. DO NOT MARRY MERELY FOR THE IMPULSE OF LOVE.--Love is a principle as well as an emotion. So far as it is a sentiment it is a blind guide. It does not wait to test the presence of exalted character in its object before breaking out into a flame. Shavings make a hot fire, but hard coal is better for the Winter. 13. DO NOT MARRY WITHOUT LOVE.--A body without a soul soon becomes offensive. 14. TEST CAREFULLY THE EFFECT OF PROTRACTED ASSOCIATION.--If familiarity breeds contempt before marriage it will afterward. 15. TEST CAREFULLY THE EFFECT OF PROTRACTED SEPARATION.--True love will defy both time and space. 16. CONSIDER CAREFULLY the right of your children under the laws of heredity. It is doubtful whether you have a right to increase the number of invalids and cripples. 17. DO NOT MARRY SIMPLY BECAUSE YOU HAVE PROMISED TO DO SO.--If a seam opens between you now it will widen into a gulf. It is less offensive to retract a mistaken promise than to perjure your soul before the altar. Your intended spouse has a right to absolute integrity. [Illustration: GOING TO BE MARRIED.] 18. MARRY CHARACTER.--It is not so much what one has as what one is. 19. DO NOT MARRY THE WRONG OBJECT.--Themistocles said he would rather marry his daughter to a man without money than to money with a man. It is well to have both. It is fatal to have neither. 20. DEMAND A JUST RETURN.--You give virtue and purity, and gentleness and integrity. You have a right to demand the same in return. Duty requires it. 21. REQUIRE BRAINS.--Culture is good, but will not be transmitted. Brain power may be. 22. STUDY PAST RELATIONSHIP.--The good daughter and sister makes a good wife. The good son and brother makes a good husband. 23. NEVER MARRY AS A MISSIONARY DEED.--If one needs saving from bad habits he is not suitable for you. 24. MARRIAGE IS A SURE AND SPECIFIC REMEDY for all the ills known as seminal losses. As right eating cures a sick stomach and right breathing diseased lungs, so the right use of the sexual organs will bring relief and restoration. Many men who have been sufferers from indiscretions of youth, have married, and were soon cured of spermatorrhoea and other complications which accompanied it. 25. A GOOD, LONG COURTSHIP will often cure many difficulties or ills of the sexual organs. O.S. Fowler says: "See each other often spend many pleasant hours together," have many walks and talks, think of each other while absent, write many love letters, be inspired to many love feelings and acts towards each other, and exercise your sexuality in a thousand forms ten thousand times, every one of which tones up and thereby recuperates this very element now dilapidated. When you have courted long enough to marry, you will be sufficiently restored to be reimproved by it.