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"Don't let her"

"How can I help it?"

"By keeping the peace with her"

"Oh, I've tried that before; I've done everything I could for her, and deferred to her, and ignored myself until I seemed to fade out of existence, but it didn't work"

"Oh, yes, it did, for it made her ten times as troublesome as before"

"It certainly did, but what do you mean?"

"I mean that a mother-in-law is like a child, in that she is spoiled by having her oay"

"But what can I do?"

"Walk cal your own authority and dignity, and finally she will conize it Be mistress of your own household, and director of your own children--all this quietly and pleasantly, but without wavering, and in the end she will respect and probably adht, or are just the woht to haveher love hter"

"That is what every romantic woman starts out with, but by and by, in the storm and stress of do ship throws its extra cargo over the rail"

"Why is it, I wonder, a hts with his father-in-law Men are said to be naturally pugnacious"

"That's a o several ht in scraps A irl's father, before he gains his consent to the engagement, but once he's married, it's the old lady he has to train for, or I should say who trains for hiives battle, not he The real conflict, however, takes place between the tomen--the wife and her mother-in-law If you want to see 'de fur fly,' as the darkies say, you must always come over to the feminine side of the house Then you'll have your fill of explanations, expostulations, and recriminations"

"Well, certainly I never had any trouble with my father-in-law"

"Trouble! Do you knohat I'd do, if I had a troublesome father-in-law?"

"No--murder him?"

"Murder him, indeed! Woman, have you no oose that lays the golden egg Why, the first shoould take the old gentleman off my hands, and pay me a handsome price for him You must know that a troublesome father-in-law is so rare that the public would flock to see hi for a troublesoet rid of theoverned by the sa,in the market"