1.  SHOW YOUR LOVE.—­All life manifests itself.  As certainly as a live tree will put forth leaves in the spring, so certainly will a living love show itself.  Many a noble man toils early and late to earn bread and position for his wife.  He hesitates at no weariness for her sake.  He justly thinks that such industry and providence give a better expression of his love than he could by caressing her and letting the grocery bills go unpaid.  He fills the cellar and pantry.  He drives and pushes his business.  He never dreams that he is actually starving his wife to death.  He may soon have a woman left to superintend his home, but his wife is dying.  She must be kept alive by the same process that called her into being.  Recall and repeat the little attentions and delicate compliments that once made you so agreeable, and that fanned her love into a consuming flame.  It is not beneath the dignity of the skillful physician to study all the little symptoms, and order all the little round of attentions that check the waste of strength and brace the staggering constitution.  It is good work for a husband to cherish his wife.

[Illustration:  TALKING AFTER MARRIAGE.]

2.  CONSULT WITH YOUR WIFE.—­She is apt to be as right as you are, and frequently able to add much to your stock of wisdom.  In any event she appreciates your attentions.

3.  STUDY TO KEEP HER YOUNG.—­It can be done.  It is not work, but worry, that wears.  Keep a brave, true heart between her and all harm.

4.  HELP TO BEAR HER BURDENS.—­Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of love.  Love seeks opportunities to do for the loved object.  She has the constant care of your children.  She is ordained by the Lord to stand guard over them.  Not a disease can appear in the community without her taking the alarm.  Not a disease can come over the threshold without her instantly springing into the mortal combat.  If there is a deficiency anywhere it comes out of her pleasure.  Her burdens are everywhere.  Look for them, that you may lighten them.

5.  MAKE YOURSELF HELPFUL BY THOUGHTFULNESS.—­Remember to bring into the house your best smile and sunshine.  It is good for you, and it cheers up the home.  There is hardly a nook in the house that has not been carefully hunted through to drive out everything that might annoy you.  The dinner which suits, or ought to suit you, has not come on the table of itself.  It represents much thoughtfulness and work.  You can do no more manly thing than find some way of expressing, in word or look, your appreciation of it.

6.  EXPRESS YOUR WILL, NOT BY COMMANDS, BUT BY SUGGESTIONS.—­It is God’s order that you should be the head of the family.  You are clothed with authority.  But this does not authorize you to be stern and harsh, as an officer in the army.  Your authority is the dignity of love.  When it is not clothed in love it ceases to have the substance of authority.  A simple suggestion that may embody a wish, an opinion or an argument, becomes one who reigns over such a kingdom as yours.