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Edward J. Hardy 지음

투나미스 2021년 04월 30일 출간

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The author has successfully accomplished a difficult task in writing a clever and practical book on the important subject of matrimony … This book, which is at once entertaining and full of wise precepts, deserves to be widely read.

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PREFACE.
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.

CHAPTER I.
HOW TO BE HAPPY THOUGH MARRIED

CHAPTER II.
TO BE OR NOT TO BE―MARRIED?

CHAPTER III.
MARRIAGE-MADE MEN

CHAPTER IV.
THE CHOICE OF A WIFE

CHAPTER V.
THE CHOICE OF A HUSBAND

CHAPTER VI.
ON MAKING THE BEST OF A BAD MATRIMONIAL BARGAIN

CHAPTER VII.
MARRIAGE CONSIDERED AS A DISCIPLINE OF CHARACTER

CHAPTER VIII.
BEING MARRIED

CHAPTER IX.
HONEYMOONING

CHAPTER X.
MARRIAGE VOWS

CHAPTER XI.
"DRIVE GENTLY OVER THE STONES!"

CHAPTER XII.
FURNISHING

CHAPTER XIII.
MARRIED PEOPLE'S MONEY

CHAPTER XIV.
THE MANAGEMENT OF SERVANTS

CHAPTER XV.
PREPARATION FOR PARENTHOOD

CHAPTER XVI.
"WHAT IS THE USE OF A CHILD?"

CHAPTER XVII.
THE EDUCATION OF PARENTS

CHAPTER XVIII.
WANTED!―MOTHERS

CHAPTER XIX.
"NURSING FATHERS"

CHAPTER XX.
POLITENESS AT HOME

CHAPTER XXI.
SUNSHINE

CHAPTER XXII.
THEY HAD A FEW WORDS

CHAPTER XXIII.
PULLING TOGETHER

CHAPTER XXIV.
NETS AND CAGES

CHAPTER XXV.
HUSBANDS HAVE DUTIES TOO

CHAPTER XXVI.
THE HEALTH OF THE FAMILY

CHAPTER XXVII.
LOVE SURVIVING MARRIAGE

CHAPTER XXVIII.
"HE WILL NOT SEPARATE US, WE HAVE BEEN SO HAPPY"

책 속으로

Most of the books intended to give "counsel and ghostly strength" to newly-married people are so like a collection of sermons that they are given away rather than read. When writing the following pages I have remembered that the only kind of vice all people agree to shun is―advice, and have endeavored to hide the pill. This is my excuse if at times I seem to fall into anecdotage.

One day two birds were busy building their nest in Luther's garden. Observing that they were often scared while committing their petty thefts by the passers to and fro, the Doctor exclaimed, "Oh, poor little birds! fly not away; I wish you well with all my heart, if you would only believe me!" If any birds of Paradise, or, to speak plainly, newly-married people, are a little scared by the title of this book or by any of its contents, I assure them that, while trying to place before them the responsibilities they have undertaken, I wish them well with all my heart, and take great interest in their nest-building.

To ask critics to be merciful at a time when new books are so numerous that our eyes ache with reading and our fingers with turning the pages, would be to ask them not to do their duty. They are the policemen of literature, and they are bound to make bad and worthless books "move on" out of the way of their betters. I can only hope that if any notice this little venture they may not feel obliged to "crush" it "among the stoure," as the Ayrshire ploughman had to crush the "wee, modest, crimson-tipped flower."

I take this opportunity of thanking M. H., my best friend, without whose help and sympathy this book would be a worse one than it is, and my life much more unsatisfactory.

Part of the first chapter was published in Chambers's Journal, and I am indebted to Cassell's Saturday Journal for two anecdotes. I now tender my best thanks to the proprietors of those periodicals for permission to reprint the passages.

The "wee, modest, crimson-tipped flower," as I called this book when it first made its appearance, has not been crushed with the ploughshare of criticism "among the stoure." On the contrary, it has been so well received that I am full of gratitude to the reviewers who recommended it and to the public who bought it. One critic suggested that to make the work complete a chapter on second marriages should be added. My reason for not writing such a chapter is that, not having myself been as yet often married, I did not presume to give advice to widows and widowers who have their own experience to guide them.

Taking up the book in a lending library a friend read aloud the title to a lady who accompanied her―"How to be Happy though Married." Lady: "Oh, bother the happiness; does it tell how to be married?" I hope that I may be pardoned if I cannot always do this.

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We strongly recommend this book as one of the best of wedding presents. It is a complete handbook to an earthly Paradise, and its author may be regarded as the Murray of Matrimony and the Baedeker of Bliss.

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저자(글) Edward J. Hardy

Edward J. HardyAuthor of "Still Happy though Married"