law. But little knows the woman, and less knows the man, that the nubile
girl is merely obeying great Nature's inexorable law.

What price woman pays for her high office! for in this implicit,
unquestioning, and unconscious obedience to Nature she performs perhaps
her highest function. On all accounts, therefore, let us

Pity women! They obey so faithfully great Nature's law, and Nature so
often plays them false--so very false, and so very often. Besides,

The woman who gives her hand without her heart finds in time that she has
made a sorry bargain--a sorrier bargain, perhaps, that the woman who
gives her heart with out her hand. For,

Passionately as a man desires a woman, the passionately-desired woman
will in time discover that, unless she gives her heart with her hand, her
gift suffers depreciation. And

Unless a woman gives her heart, how can she give her aid? Surely,

Unless a man's armor is buckled on for the strife of life by feminine
sympathy, the fight is apt to be a sorry one at best; since

A woman's true business is to back her husband: if SHE leaves him in the
lurch, there is little hope for him. For of a truth

The strongest man is handicapped in the struggle for existence unless he
knows and feels that his wife is at his side--not pushing him so much as
leaning upon him.