Courtship and Marriage and the gentle art of home-making

“Man’s love is of man’s life a thing apart, ‘Tis woman’s whole existence.” Byron Yes, love is a woman’s whole life. Some modern women might object to this. They might say that this was true of the woman of the past, who was excluded from all other avenues of human activity. The woman of the present day has other interests besides those of Love.

What a tribute to the worth of woman are the names by which she is enshrined in common speech! What tender associations halo the names of wife, mother, sister and daughter! It must never be forgotten that the dearest, most sacred of these names, are, in origin, connected with the dignity of service. In early speech the wife, or wife-man (woman) was the ”weaver,” whose care it was to clothe the family, as it was the husband’s duty to ”feed” it, or to provide the materials of sustenance.