How to be Happy Though Married: Being a Handbook to Marriage

The author offers a practical, occasionally humorous handbook for married couples that blends anecdote with counsel on courtship decisions, adjusting to married life, and improving imperfect matches. Topics include choosing a spouse, vows and honeymooning, household furnishing, finances, servant management, preparation for parenthood, child-rearing and parental education, domestic politeness, family health, and ways to sustain affection through quarrels and later years. The tone favors everyday disciplines, sensible division of duties, and small strategies of courtesy and mutual support intended to preserve domestic cheer and enable conjugal affection to survive beyond the first bloom of romance.