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the functions of wedlock, but who for lack of knowledge suffer in silence.
In attempting to map out the rights and wrongs of the relations that exist between human beings, and which govern their life, health, intellect, love, power, happiness, usefulness and honor, we cannot avoid a feeling of responsibility, a desire and absolute determination to record nothing without careful investigation and due consideration — and yet an equal desire to hold back nothing that can give them a proper understanding of themselves.
It is far from our object to profane with open publicity the secrecy of Holy Matrimony; yet within this Holy Matrimonial state there exists a deplorable condition of sexual incompatibility, a frightful undercurrent of unhappiness; a feeling of wrong and outrage, which although in many cases not admitted—even to one's self—yet smoulders on until it bursts forth into the flame of some one of the crimes referred to.
We cannot say that this imperfect state of affairs is with the minority—nay! it exists, to a greater or less degree, with the vast majority!
A true and happy marriage, wherein we see the husband's and the wife's love for each other increase from day to day, where they grow to even strongly resemble one another—where the offspring is blessed by a healthy body and mind; where true and congenial wedlock exists; where sorrow and poverty only more strongly rivet the ties that bind them—this—this state of married happiness, which should and could be enjoyed by nearly all, is unfortunately the exception and not the rule.
It is not to those, who have either by study or natural perfection and wisdom, entrenched themselves within those all-powerful walls of true love and happiness that
