How to be Happy Though Married

by Madison Clinton Peters

This volume, full of wisdom, was published in 1915.

From the Preface:

There was published some years ago
an English book by a ''Graduate of the
University of Matrimony", bearing the
alarmingly suggestive title ''How to be
Happy Though Married", a headliner not
original with the author. An old English
preacher named Skelton, first used it as
a title for a sermon. The startling theme
inculcates the important and frequently
forgotten truth that domestic happiness
does not come as a matter of course, but
like everything else worth having, has to
be worked for.

The passages published in this booklet
are picked at random from the author's
lecture on the subject and are intended
to advertise that lecture, which in its
entirety would make quite a book.

Lecture committees will find this sub-
ject one which will attract attention, and
the complete lecture as given before pop-
ular audiences furnishes refined entertain-
ment, while doing a vast amount of good.
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Book Excerpts:

There are three times as many divorces
in the United States, with one hundred
millions of people, as there are in all Eu-
rope with more than four hundred mil-
lions. Does this mean that there is less
matrimonial felicity among us than in
Europe ?

The average European woman thinks
that man may impose upon her by divine
right. In many parts of Europe women
are nothing more than beasts of burden,
and are ruled in the spirit of the dark
ages. Denied education, and completely
subordinated to her husband, woman lives
in fear of and in subjection to her lord
and master.

Our advancing civilization has en-
larged woman's ideas, and with a better
comprehension of her nature and rights,
the average American woman would
rather make her own way in the world
than live a lie with a man for support.
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Some Book Quotes:

" If you take a husband just for the sake
of having one, you may find him a morti-
fying trophy and an inconvenient piece of
property."

" The Bible never said that it was not
good for woman to be alone, because Grod
knew many women would be better off
alone."

" He who marries for beauty alone is as
silly as the man who bought a house be-
cause he liked the flowers in the front
yard."

" A beautiful woman pleases the eye, a
good woman wins the heart; the one is a
jewel, the other a treasure."

" Many a failure would have been avoid-
ed if men had consulted with their wives."

" The word wife means weaver and wives
either weave men's fortunes, or, like
moths, simply feed upon them. "

36 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1915

About the author

Madison Clinton Peters (November 6, 1859 – October 12, 1918) was an American clergyman.