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selfish, vain, egotistical lover, and the passion soon turns to ashes in the wake of his hectic course.

The wise wife will keep herself attractive and pay attention to the little details of person which mean so much to the lover, before marriage and after.

The problem of adjustments of temperament and other personal characteristics is an important one in marriage. There always has to be a certain amount of compromise made by each of the principals in a successful marriage. This compromise is the adjustment or adaptation. If either refuses to recognize this requirement, the seeds of disharmony are sown, and incompatibility is bound to result.

There are no exceptions to this rule, as there are always enough differences in married people, temperamental and otherwise, to require adjustment, so that team-work is made a harmonious possibility.

Tolerance and broad-mindedness are other essentials to marital harmony. Not only is it necessary to make adjustments oneself, but it is necessary to make allowances for certain inevitable differences of opinion, ideas and viewpoints, and to respect them in the other. In this way married people can have their differences—differences that develop and enrich personality—without being disagreeable.

While marriage requires adaptation, it does not mean conformity to a definite psychological measure. Intellectual growth depends upon ready change of ideas, reasoning and discussion, and nowhere is the open forum of free opinion more productive of valuable results than with a married couple.

Probably a more difficult problem, because it is more subtle in its manifestations, is that which may result from a temporary feeling of unsettledness, weariness or aggravation. Even when people are otherwise considerate of each