3.  Now the man had also a high faculty called judgment.  He continually wondered why the woman did not despise him on account of his selfishness.  He soon discovered that it was because the woman lacked sadly in judgment.  The baby would lift up its voice in the night.  That baby must be attended to.  The weather might be very cold.  The man despised that fact, but the woman, because it made her teeth ache and her body cake and cramp, feared the cold.  But the man also despised the baby and all its appertainings—­particularly the appertainings.  Therefore, the man debated within himself that he was very selfish, or he would get up.  Perhaps, being a “just” man, the way men go, he really got up about once in a dozen times, but, candidly, he would probably have seen that baby suffer ere he would have attended its wants any oftener.  The woman took it for granted that the man would not get up, and yet she did not despise him.  She did not have judgment enough to do it.

VANITY AND SELFISHNESS.

4.  A man’s vanity and selfishness are present (to a woman’s perception) in every movement.  She likes them.  They are the characteristics of masculinity.

5.  The man entered matrimony with all the trepidation born out of thinking too much about it.  It seemed to him like buying a fifteen-thousand-dollar horse on instalments.  This is just as it seems to Mr. Bachelor, too.  It was a pretty good price, but it was a high-stepper, a flyer, a beauty.  It would take him all his life to pay for it, and it might founder the first year.  But he had never in his life wanted anything the way he wanted that woman.  Mr. Bachelor has not yet got to that stage.

RETURNING GOOD FOR EVIL.

6.  There is little doubt that, speaking of man as an animal, unchastened by the benign influence of religion, “the male hates the sick female.”  The female knows that.  Yet in return she exhibits toward the sick male a tenderness that makes his hair stand on end when he thinks of his own short-comings.

7.  The man’s astonishment at reaching thirty was tremendous.  He found he was changing, and that marriage was evidently

THE EXPRESS PREPARATION FOR THIS CONTINGENCY.

He used to go to the theatre a great deal.  He did not then notice that the air in the auditorium was more rotten than the midnight winds that blow over Chicago from the industrious rendering-houses on her outskirts.  It is now a real hardship to go to an ordinary dramatic performance, and he thinks theatre-goers are as a class the most discontented people there are in society.  He used to spend his earnings in various other places which now weary him beyond measure, and are equally wearisome to those bachelor friends of his who used to keep him company, and are forced by single life, to still frequent such resorts.