8.  Be sensible and marry a sensible, honest and industrious companion, and happiness through life will be your reward.

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WHAT WOMEN LOVE IN MEN.

1.  Women naturally love courage, force and firmness in men.  The ideal man in a woman’s eye must be heroic and brave.  Woman naturally despises a coward, and she has little or no respect for a bashful man.

2.  Woman naturally loves her lord and master.  Women who desperately object to be overruled, nevertheless admire men who overrule them, and few women would have any respect for a man whom they could completely rule and control.

3.  Man is naturally the protector of woman; as the male wild animal of the forest protects the female, so it is natural for man to protect his wife and children, and therefore woman admires those qualities in a man which make him a protector.

4.  LARGE MEN.—­Women naturally love men of strength, size and fine physique, a tall, large and strong man rather than a short, small and weak man.  A woman always pities a weakly man, but rarely ever has any love for him.

5.  SMALL AND WEAKLY MEN.—­All men would be of good size in frame and flesh, were it not for the infirmities visited upon them by the indiscretion of parents and ancestors of generations before.

6.  YOUTHFUL SEXUAL EXCITEMENT.—­There are many children born healthy and vigorous who destroy the full vigor of their generative organs in youth by self-abuse, and if they survive and marry, their children will have small bones, small frames and sickly constitutions.  It is therefore not strange that instinct should lead women to admire men not touched with these symptoms of physical debility.

7.  GENEROSITY.—­Woman generally loves a generous man.  Religion absorbs a great amount of money in temples, churches, ministerial salaries, etc., and ambition and appetite absorb countless millions, yet woman receives more gifts from man than all these combined:  she loves a generous giver. Generosity and Gallantry are the jewels which she most admires.  A woman receiving presents from a man implies that she will pay him back in love, and the woman who accepts a man’s presents, and does not respect him, commits a wrong which is rarely ever forgiven.

8.  INTELLIGENCE.—­Above all other qualities in man, woman admires his intelligence.  Intelligence is man’s woman captivating card.  This character in woman is illustrated by an English army officer, as told by O.S.  Fowler, betrothed in marriage to a beautiful, loving heiress, summoned to India, who wrote back to her: 

“I have lost an eye, a leg, an arm, and been so badly marred and begrimmed besides, that you never could love this poor, maimed soldier.  Yet, I love you too well to make your life wretched by requiring you to keep your marriage-vow with me, from which I hereby release you.  Find among English peers one physically more perfect, whom you can love better.”