He loves his child devotedly, and is proud of him, of course; but that does not keep him from wanting the society of his wife occasionally, nor from longing for her old-time love and sympathetic interest.

It is an admirable thing, certainly, for a woman to be a devoted mother; but maternal affection can be carried too far.

Husbands have some rights as well as offspring; and the wife who neglects her husband for her babies does so at her peril.

Home, with the wife eternally in the nursery, is apt to be a dull and lonely thing to the average husband, so he starts out to find amusement for himself--and he finds it.

Then is the time when the new little life that is so precious, and that should have bound the two more closely together, becomes the wedge that drives them apart." Billy did not read any more.