THE WIFE'S PART.--Having read the preceding pages some young wives may ask if that is really what being married means? If it is all work and sacrifice and no pleasure? That is exactly what it means and if there is no pleasure in work and sacrifice, then there is no pleasure in married life. The young wife who fails to see the significance of this interpretation of what has been written has a fundamentally wrong idea of what married life means. A woman who begins her wedded life with less loyal ideals than are depicted in the performance of the duties we have enumerated is imposing on her husband and is false to herself. She will not attain happiness and success. To marry in order to have a good time should be a state's prison offence. Happiness and contentment and success are products of duty well done. They are the logical recompense for effort and sacrifice. Individual happiness is not the chief object of existence in this life. To work efficiently is the supreme obligation. It is naturally to desire happiness and to labor for it; but it is absurd to be annoyed and angry because we do not find it. Happiness through marriage is never attained except by never-ending self-abnegation and effort. We must struggle or we will degenerate. A correct interpretation of racial progress proves this truth. Effort is the supreme law. All good things have been given to man at the price of labor. ADVICE TO YOUNG WIVES CHAPTER XXV "Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance, self-control, diligence, strength of will, content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know." CHARLES KINGSLEY. HOW TO ACHIEVE What the Young Wife Owes to Herself--Why Was I Born--What Are the Personal Qualities Necessary to Success--What Are the Personal Qualities Necessary to Happiness--Self-control--What is a Thought--The Evil Habit of Hasty Judgment--The Bad Thought Habit--Training the Mind--Go About it in the Right Way--Be Sure Your Husband's Friends Are Your Friends--Be a Good Fellow--Two Kinds of People in the World--Everything Depends Upon What We Do With Our Mind--The Most Popular Woman--The Gift of Flattery--Choosing Your Friends--True Friendship Expects and Demands Nothing--True Friendship is Necessary--"By Your Friends Shall Ye Be Known"--Making Resolves--The Formula of Success--When Fortune Knocks.