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of his children. Nor is it only his adult children who are thus repressed. The same generosity leads him to prefer gifts of money to his wife, rather than a balancing of accounts which credits her with so much due for her exertions in the household. Does he, moreover, always feel that some of the day belongs to her as much as his evening hours belong to him? Somewhere or other crop out his rights as an individual, which the wife should zealously guard; but are hers guarded as much in return? Unless a wife is considered to have as absolute a right to her individuality as the husband has to his, marriage can never be the beneficent institution for which some people consider it was designed. The same love that would protect in health, and that would watch anxiously in case of life and death, will be silent or cross when home cares and perplexities weary. It is the little rights of each other which we ignore.

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