After Marriage

One frequent cause of trouble ia married life is a want of openness ia businei matters. A husband marries a pretty, thoughtless girl, who has been used to taking no more thought of how she stiould bo clothed than the lilies of the field. He begins by not liking to refuse any of her requests. He will not bint so long 33 he can help it at care in trifling expenses- he doe not lik to associate himself in her mind with disappointments and sclf denials. As ho would have been willing enough, in tha sweet eagerness of her girhsh love, to please, to give up any whims or fancies of her own wnatever, she folla into habita ot extravagance, and feels herself injured when at last a remonstrance .lomes. How much wiser would have been perfect open! ness in the beginning! "We havo just o much money to spend this summcr." "Now, shall we arrange matten thus or thusi" was the question I heard a very younjr husband ask his still younger brida not long ago, and all the womanhood in her answered to this demand upon it, and her help at planning and counselling proved not a thing to be dospised, though hitherto sha had " fed upon the roses and lain upon tha lüies of life." I am speaking not of marriages that are no marriages- when Venu bas wedded Vulcau becauso Vulcan pro. posed ut his (úi;c tut marriagfM wher two troO hearts hite set out togethcr, foi love't saka, to learn the lesson of Ufe, and to Ut tof ether nntil death shall part thcm. And ons of the first lessons for them te learn is to trast ech othcr cntirely. Thf dost frivolous girl of all " tho rosebud irden of girlB," if sha truly lovc, acquirc( Bomething of womanlines from her Io7e, and Is ready to plan, and help, and make hei small sacrifico for tho general good. - CVirwtian at Work.