Of course there arises the cry of the old justification. Before marriage, the woman had no house nor children to keep her busy all day. Cannot a woman keep her house and herself clean and attractive at the same time? A large number of women do do it, so all could. It is hard to understand the psychology that is deep-rooted in many women and that allows them to be slovenly. No one expects a woman, if she must do her own work, to be attired in a party frock when her husband comes home in the evening. But she can wear a simple pretty house dress, with a gay cretonne apron over it, she can have her hair nicely arranged, and her face powdered. If a woman must do her own work, she should live in a home small enough for her to take care of, and still allow her time for herself. She should not have so many small babies that every minute is occupied with them. She should learn all of the simple labor-saving devices that make housework easier. The home is the last place to be standardized. It is no wonder that men become impatient with women, and conclude that they are shiftless and brainless. If the same tactics were applied to business universal bankruptcy would result. Housework can be standardized, and should be. Once that women realize this, their labors will be cut in half. The only way to make marriage a continual happiness is to continue the courtship through life. Each party must make the effort to keep the desire of the other alive and eager. Husband and wife must regard each other as they did before marriage. This will not be hard if there was true love to start with, and it will be infinitely worth while. Marriage is not a thing to be lightly entered into and lightly cast aside. It requires constant care on the part of each. To be sure, if after these attempts to preserve the love of the pre-marriage days, that love dies, it is better for the temper, health, and morality of both parties to separate. But all other methods should be adequately tried first. IV. THE PROPER MATE. _The Purpose of Marriage._—The essential thing to found a happy marriage upon is the choice of a proper mate. Marriage, even from the most modern standpoint, is something more than the satisfaction of the love desire. It is an institution upon which all of our social life is founded. More than that, it is the one undisputed method of gaining immortality. Men and women live on in their children, their grandchildren, forever. The perpetuity that they hand down must be the finest that they are capable of. If two incompatible people marry and live together, they give that incompatibility of temperament to all posterity. They bequeath dissatisfaction, unrest, misery to the world, for it is an undisputed fact that the children of unhappy couples are rarely rounded persons. So it is no light matter to choose a fitting mate.