How to be Happy Though Married: Being a Handbook to Marriage
by E. J. Hardy
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About This Book
A guidebook for newlyweds on how to have a successful marriage, with quotes and anecdotes from eminent persons of the time period.
Chapters (307)
- HOW TO BE HAPPY THOUGH MARRIED.
- PRESS NOTICES ON THE FIRST EDITION.
- HOW TO BE HAPPY THOUGH MARRIED BEING A Handbook to Marriage
- PREFACE.
- PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.
- CONTENTS.
- 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."
- INDEX.
- CATALOGUE OF Mr. T. FISHER UNWIN'S PUBLICATIONS. Autumn-Christmas Season, 1886.
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