The lover in the husband may be lost.

Lord Lyttleton.

The ideal wife does not make the ideal husband. When man reaches a marriageable age his habits have taken firm root, and his tendencies are so closely knit they admit of little stretching. But the ideal wife has a great deal to do with the ideal husband of the future; for mothers are the women who make men.

As the husband is, the wife is

Thou art mated with a clown,
And the coarseness of his nature

Lavinia Hart.

Will have weight to drag thee down.

Alfred Tennyson.

The happy married man dies in good style at home, surrounded by his weeping wife and children. The old bachelor don't die at all-he sort of rots away, like a pollywog's tail.

Artemus Ward.

"Some men who marry and settle down would have done the world more good had they remained single and settled up."

It is an interesting fact that Almighty God seems to like widows better than wives. The wives mentioned in the Scriptures, from Eve down to Sapphira, are, with notoriously few exceptions, obnoxious; they are always jealous, or deceitful, or suspicious, or mercenary, or unfaithful, or intriguing. But the widows are invariably kind and lovely.

John Oliver Hobbes (Mrs. Craigie).

You may love a simple maiden,
And in time may marry her;
But to wed a widow, gay or staid,
Is a thing that can't occur-
For the widow is of sterner stuff,

And you'll find it pretty true-
You can wed a maid all right enough,

But a widow marries you!

"Smart Set."

How does a woman feel when she is making her wedding-clothes for the second time, for another man?

James Lane Allen.

A widower who remarries invariably reminds his friends that children should be brought up under the sweet and beneficial care of a woman, and he tells them that he remarries to give a mother to his dear little ones-nine times out of ten, an indifferent one, and not unfrequently a bad one. If he has no children he says he is so lonely that he must have a companion, also a housekeeper, and he gives you to understand all this is en tout bien honneur.

Why is a widower like a baby?

Max O'Rell.

Because he cries a good deal for the first six months; during the next six, he begins to take notice, and finds it very hard to get over the second summer.

Conundrum.

"Don't fool with widowers, grass nor sod."

Alice Hegan Rice.

Women know

The way to rear up children (to be just)-
They know a simple, tender, merry knack
Of tying sashes, fitting baby shoes,

And stringing pretty words that make no sense,
And kissing full sense into empty words:

Which things are corals to cut life upon-
Although such trifles.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love fixed in permanent outline forever! Thomas Wentworth Higginson.

They say that man is mighty,
He governs land and sea;
He wields a mighty sceptre

O'er the lesser powers that be;
But a mightier power and stronger
Man from his throne has hurled,
And the hand that rocks the cradle
Is the hand that rules the world.

William Ross Wallace.

We have got over thinking that the mother has all the love and the father all the intelligence.

Mrs. Burdette.

The sacredness of a father's love and sorrow never is recognized as is the mother's. *** "Would to God that I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!" cried mighty David, in his agony of grief; and today, in any thoroughfare through which we pass, men go about their daily avocations with such steadfast courage as they may, whose hearts echo this bitter wail in silence. Mrs. James Farley Cox.

And if there be love in this world stronger and sweeter than that of a father for his little daughter, no one has yet discovered it. For it is the ineffable mother-love shorn of all domestic exigencies and social frets-love that yet has not even contemplated the future, but is blissfully content with the joy of the present hour.

Amelia E. Barr.

If a man who turnips cries,
Cries not when his father dies,
"Tis a proof that he had rather
Have a turnip than his father.

Samuel Johnson.