Nor are many persons sufficiently aware of the ruinous extent to which the
amative propensity is indulged by married persons. The matrimonial ceremony
does, indeed, sanctify the act of sexual intercourse, but it can by no
means atone for nor obviate the consequences of its abuse. Excessive
indulgence in the married relation is, perhaps, as much owing to the force
of habit, as to the force of the sexual appetite.
[Illustration: GUARD WELL THE CRADLE.