In a Nutshell
SEVEN RULES FOR MAKING YOUR HOME LIFE HAPPIER Rule 1: Don’t nag. Rule 2: Don’t try to make your partner over. Rule 3: Don’t criticize. Rule 4: Give honest appreciation. Rule 5: Pay little attentions. Rule 6: Be courteous. Rule 7: Read a good book on the sexual side of marriage. In its issue […]
Don’t Be a “Marriage Illiterate”
Dr. Katherine Bement Davis, general secretary of the Bureau of Social Hygiene, once induced 1,000 married women to reply frankly to a set of intimate questions. The result was shocking – an incredibly shocking comment upon the sexual unhappiness of the average American adult. After perusing the answers she received from these thousand married women, […]
If You Want to be Happy, Don’t Neglect This One
Walter Damrosch married the daughter of James G. Blaine, one of America’s greatest orators and one-time candidate for President. Ever since they met many years ago at Andrew Carnegie’s home in Scotland, the Damrosches have led a conspicuously happy life. The secret? “Next to care in choosing a partner,” says Mrs. Damrosch, “I should place […]
They Mean So Much to a Woman
From time immemorial, flowers have been considered the language of love. They don’t cost much, especially in season, and often they’re for sale on the street corners. Yet, considering the rarity with which the average husband takes home a bunch of daffodils, you might suppose them to be as expensive as orchids and as hard […]
A Quick Way to Make Everybody Happy
“Most men when seeking wives,” says Paul Popenoe, Director of the Institute of Family Relations in Los Angeles, “are not looking for executives but for women with allure and willingness to flatter their vanity and make them feel superior. Hence the woman office manager may be invited to luncheon, once. But she quite possibly dishes […]
Do This and You’ll Be Looking Up the Time-Tables to Reno
Disraeli’s bitterest rival in public life was the great Gladstone. These two clashed on every debatable subject under the Empire, yet they had one thing in common; the supreme happiness of their private lives. William and Catherine Gladstone lived together for fifty-nine years, almost three score years glorified with an abiding devotion. I like to […]
Love and Let Live
“I may Commit many follies in life,” Disraeli said, “but I never intend to marry for love.” And he didn’t. He stayed single until he was thirty-five, and then he proposed to a rich widow, a widow fifteen years his senior; a widow whose hair was white with the passing of fifty winters. Love? Oh, […]
How to Dig Your Marital Grave in the Quickest Possible Way
Seventy-Five years ago, Napoleon III of France, nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte, fell in love with Marie Eugenie Ignace Augustine de Montijo, Countess of Teba, the most beautiful woman in the world – and married her. His advisors pointed out that she was only the daughter of an insignificant Spanish count. But Napoleon retorted: “What of […]
Letters That Produced Miraculous Results
I’ll bet I know what you are thinking now. You are probably saying to yourself something like this: ” ‘Letters that produced miraculous results!‘ Absurd! Smacks of patent-medicine advertising!” If you are thinking that, I don’t blame you. I would probably have thought that myself if I had picked up a book like this fifteen […]
In A Nutshell
NINE WAYS TO CHANGE PEOPLE WITHOUT GIVING OFFENCE OR AROUSING RESENTMENT Rule 1: Begin with praise and honest appreciation. Rule 2: Call attention to people’s mistakes indirectly. Rule 3: Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person. Rule 4: Ask questions instead of giving direct orders. Rule 5: Let the other man save […]