How many men have run in debt for what they believed essential to the wife's happiness because she had such things in her father's house, without letting the wife know that economy was necessary, only to find out that if full confidence had been given a mutual effort would have secured better results.

How many women have gone without things they might have had for want of knowledge of their husband's income and suffered fears that need not have been in the mind.

How many also, alas, both of men and women, have lived beyond their means from selfish demand one upon the other, a demand which might have been chastened, at least, if full knowledge of economic resources had been attained before the scale of living was fixed.
All these items of suggested conference and decision given above are counsels of prudence and wisdom.

Many, perhaps most, however, of the young couples starting out in life "go it blind" in all or some of these particulars.

The wonder is that these who start on the most serious of compacts and the one leading to the greatest extremes of both happiness and unhappiness with so little knowledge of each other's condition, capacity, or deepest wishes, get along, on the whole, so well.