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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: s ness, purity, quiescence, response, ability to drop a handkerchief but none to pick it up, skill in the use of a fan but not a tool; these were considered the all desirable! To the ordinary girl the economics of life, the great, throbbing, pulsing themes of life are a sealed book. But this ordinary girl of twenty is married and life begins to assume a serious look. Her husband of twenty-four is in a business that is growing and causes his brain to be active on many subjects. He must be in touch with the thoughts of thinking men?the best of them. He comes home at night with his mind full of his work. He needs to talk it over with somebody and he tries to interest his pretty young wife?(all young wives are pretty). But he is speaking in an unknown tongue to her. It doesn't attract her; how can it?Just count the topics she can converse on, even a little. There is love, and its manifestations, superlative degree of love; her beauty, sweetness, the only girl, and how happy they are; the cooking; their presents and household arrangements as to furnishings, etc.; her ability as housekeeper; neighborhood news, who called and the return of calls; the new magazines and books; where they shall go, how and when. There may be a few more topics of interests in common. But the young husband grows tired of this and his mind constantly reverts to, what to him, are big subjects. He must discuss these with some one who can give back the flash of intelligence, and he goes to the club, where he meets minds that respond to his. He is refreshed and can live. Now if this woman does not grow mentally, if she insists on living in the little round of petty details, absorbed in a narrow, personal and family selfishness, one of two things will occur, either the husband and wife will meet on the ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217655156
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 40
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217655157
  • Publisher Date: 14 Oct 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 73 gr

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