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The Ancient Lineage of New Thought - The Anti-toxin of Common Sense - Are You Doing the Best You Can? - Be Not Easily Offended - For What Are You Living? - Ignore Misfortune - The Power of Personality - Common Sense and "Goodness" - "Good Business" - The Trapeze Performer - The High Calling of Fatherhood - The High Calling of Motherhood - Thought Building for Children - The New Thought Economy - What Is a Good Woman? - The Color of Your Thoughts - "In God We Trust" - Are You Alive? - Something About Celibacy - The Old and the New Thought View of Life - The Cities Beyond - The Onward March - Common Sense Ideas in Marriage - The Shading of the Picture - Woman and the Cigarette - Sinning Against the "Holy Ghost" - New Thoughts and Beauty - Famous and Infamous Women - Enemies to Happiness - The New Year - Enthusiasm - Brace Up - Universal Need - Every Day Opportunities - The Masters - Building Kindness Cells - What Is Optimism? - What Is the Loving Thing to Do? - A New Thought Rosary - Unto the End - Keep Still and Wait - What Life Means to Me - Contents - Index


Common Sense Ideas in Marriage

HAPPINESS in married life is to be gained just as enduring happiness in any phase of existence on earth is to be found --- by the use of the old-fashioned virtues of unselfishness, consideration for others, politeness and kindness, all based on love and capped by common sense.

Like the old recipe for cooking the hare, which begins, "First catch your hare," a happy marriage for a woman begins with, "First select a man" --- not an ideal-made seraph, not an ossified brain, not a mere animal, but a man capable of loving and appreciating a woman's love.

Of course he will be more or less selfish. That is the way parents rear their sons to be. It is your task to bear with this selfishness at first, until you can tactfully teach him how beautiful is thoughtfulness for others, and in a very sweet but very dignified way, show him that you expect the same treatment you give.

In the meantime you must recollect that you are a faulty woman --- and probably spoiled by your parents if you are an American woman --- and you must not assume a superior air over your husband when you find out his faults, merely because they are unlike your own.

Whenever he does or says anything which annoys or pains you, say to yourself: "I must avoid ever saying or doing that in my treatment of him."

Then some day, when he tells you of a fault you

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