You will grow happier day by day, and your wife will be the happiest
woman in the neighborhood. She will be proud of you because you have had
the brains to be happy and sensible. We hear a good deal of railing
against the general wisdom of getting married. There seems to be a sort
of popular contagion lately, making it fashionable to fling jeers and
jibes at the cares and sorrows of marriage. We find young men writing to
the newspapers that it costs them six dollars to board singly, and that
the same "style" of living and enjoyment could not be purchased at