Too Much--The Wife's Proper Cares--A Reply to the Common Form of Attack
on the Principle that Marriage Is Both Natural and Expedient--McFarland--A
Man's Happy Experience as a Husband--Judgment, Vanity, Selfishness and
Trepidation--Good for Evil--Astonishing Changes in a Man's Needs--The
Fireside of a Man Who Is Trying to Do Right--His Profound Gratitude at the
Accuracy of His Taste in Earlier Years--Death, or Worse than Death--Three
Studies--Apology for a Somewhat Uncharitable Reply to a Selfish Argument.
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Bachelors.

A Chapter on Bachelors Apt to Diverge into a Dissertation on
Solitude--Arguments which the Bachelor Applies to the Question of
Marriage--Being the Soul of Selfishness He Is Unwilling to Believe
Happiness In Marriage Possible until He Shall Himself Have Embarked in
Matrimony--Manner in Which He Usually Proclaims That all Men Who Marry
Are Fools--Single Life Unavoidable with Some Men--A Mere Spectator of
Other Men's Fortunes--The One Grand Result of Single Life--Wearing Out
One Set of Faculties by Forty--Losing Control of the Other Set by
Disuse--The Way a Bachelor Judges a Young Girl--His Somewhat Sordid
Ideas--Events Have Distorted His Nature--A Bachelor's Great
opportunities for Getting Book-Knowledge--Good out of Evil--Mistaken
Ideas about Bachelors, which the Ladies are Apt to Entertain--Foolish
Diatribes against Women--The Lack of Knowledge which Those Diatribes
Betray--The Front-Porch View of Girlhood Esteemed to be the whole of
Woman's Nature! Page 270.


Sickness.