Burke on his domestic felicity, 23; describes his wife"s eyes, 189.
Burleigh, Lord, advice to his son on the choice of a wife, 42.
Burmah, Young men of, cured of aversion to marriage, 12.
Bermuda, Servants in, 129.
Burns on the qualities of a good wife, 41.
Burton, Robert, for and against matrimony, 13, 14; tells of a remedy for a husband"s impatience, 203; gives instances of love surviving marriage, 255-6.
Byron, Lord, tells a story of a learned Jew, 88; spoiled by his mother, 166.
Carlyle, Thomas, his inscription upon his wife"s tombstone, 28; advice to the discontented, 62; cautions a servant "abounding in grace," 135; the way he and his wife pulled together, 218; his definition of "holy," 244; on dyspepsia, 246; his way of expressing sympathy, 247; birthday presents to his wife, 257-8; his remorse, 270.
Carlyle, Mrs., her advice, 49; her "mutinous maids of all work," 135; describes Mrs. Leigh Hunt"s housekeeping, 224-5; her culinary trials, 225; "If he would only be satisfied!" 237.
Castile, Admiral of, his saying about marrying a wife, 10.
Catacombs at Rome, Inscriptions in, 136, 261.
Celibacy has less pleasure and less pain than marriage, 10; an unnatural state, 16.
Cobbe, Miss, on the moral atmosphere of the house, 194.
Cobbett on the wretchedness of old bachelorship, 17; on industry in a wife, 39; "comforts" his wife, 96; an interesting bit of autobiography, 105; a soldier"s philosophy, 172; "He never disappointed me in his life," 241.
Conjugal felicity, Secret of, 6; largely depends on mutual confidence, 106.
Connoisseur, Hasty exclamation of a, 65.
Courtship, Love-making should not end with, 5, 229; people unknown to each other during, 53, 80; with lawyer"s advice, 125; the tempestuous love of does not remain, 255.
_Chambers" Journal_ gives instances of matrimonial tribulation, 57.
Chesterfield on behaviour to servants, 134.
Chicago, A young lady of, 124.
Children, Only, 149; quality more to be desired than quant.i.ty of, 150; imitate their elders, 158.
China, Narrative of a journey through the south border lands of, 91.
Clarendon printing-office, 58.
Clergymen, Sons of, 173.
Clerk, A married, excuses himself, 148.
Cowper and his mother, 164.
Curran felt his wife and children tugging at his gown, 24; his mother and father, 165.
Dale, R. W., of Birmingham, believes in falling in love, 47.
Daughters, Fourteen of my, 150.
David, King, lays up materials for his son, 145.
Dealer, A Scotch, "tried _baith_," 32; confesses the failings of a horse, 235.
De Sales, St. Francis, on quarrels, 103.
De Tocqueville, Letter of, about his wife, 21.
d.i.c.kens tells an American story, 50.
Dictionary, a town--why so called, 55.
Digestion disturbed by "a few words," 208.
Diogenes, why he struck a father, 173.
Dress indicates character, 39.
Dulness a "serious complaint," 89.
Dunmow flitch, The, 212.
Edison, Anecdote of, 33.
Emerson thinks children always interesting, 147.
Eliot, George, on marriage, 6; on disappointment, 57; remarks about the best society, 115, weak women, 145; "Silas Marner" referred to, 155, 215, 236.
Ellenborough, Lord, Anecdote of, 188.
Erskine ill.u.s.trates the fact that union is strength, 216.
Eve "kept silence to hear her husband talk," 209.
Exactingness causes domestic misery, 219.
Family, A "large little," 149; what const.i.tutes a large, _ibid._; government of, 182-3.