Plain home talk about the human system-the habits of men and women-the cause and prevention of disease-our sexual relations and social natures (1896) (14577777238)

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Title: Plain home talk about the human system--the habits of men and women--the cause and prevention of disease--our sexual relations and social natures
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Foote. Edward B(liss), 1829-1906. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Medicine, Popular Marriage
Publisher: New York : Murray Hill publishing company (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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im.It was the customof that coarse agefor a bride andgroom, on the nup-tial evening, to situp in bed, in costlynight-dresses, toreceive the com-pliments of theirfriends. On thisoccasion, as theroyal family andnobility deniedpast the princeand princess, wh jwere magnificentin lace and silver,the queen, thebrides own moth-er, declared that victoria in the irime op life.when she looked at the bridegroom from behind, he seemed to have no head,and when she looked at him in front, she could not, for the life of her, tellwhere his legs were. Walpole or Henry, we forget which, records the anec-dote. The princess lived to regret her maiden condition at her fatherscourt, even witd all the neglect that attended it. u Another daughter of George the Second married the Landgrave ofHesse, the same who afterward sold his soldiers to England, in order toassist in conquering these colonies. He was so brutal, that his wife, at last,Jud to desert him and seek refuge in her native country. A third married
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702 MARRIAGE AS IT IS. the king of Denmark, who abused her shamefully, openly insulting her inthe presence of an unprincipled woman, who shared what he had of affection.She died, partly of a broken heart, partly of a cruel disease, at the early ageof twenty-seven. The undercurrent of English married life jets out a little in one of Thack-erays novels, where he asks: Who dared first to say that marriages aremade in heaven ? We know that there are not only blunders, but rogueryin the marriage office. Do not mistakes occur every day, and are not thewrong people coupled ? Had heaven any thing to do with the bargain bywhich young Miss Blushrose was sold to old Mr. Hoarfrost? Did heavenorder young Miss Fripper to throw over poor Tom Spooner, and marry thewealthy Mr. Bung? You may as well say that horses are sold in heaven, which,as you know, are groomed, are doctored, are chanted on to the market, andwarranted by dexterous horse-venders as possessing every quality of blood,pace, temper, and