The wise Adams and Eves reduce
the friction _by kindness_, by _co-operation with each other_; Adam
_tries_ to please Eve, Eve tries to please Adam, and both are kind about
it, wherefore in due time their _appreciation_ for each other grows, and
mayhap their love grows with it. If love wanes instead of growing at
least they are _friends_, and can _part_ as friends if they so desire.
Someone has well said that without a model husband there can be no model
wife. I believe it. As long as man and woman are held together by love,
attraction, or "conditions" (in its last analysis it is _all_ the Law of
Attraction, or _God_) they are literally _one_, no matter how hard they
kick against the oneness; and neither man nor woman can _alone_ be a
model, any more than one side of a peach can be _entirely_ ripe and
sweet and the other side entirely hard and green.
So when I speak to Eve about tact and kindness I speak to _the Eve in
Adam_ as well as in Eve herself.
And what I say of the attractions of man and wife applies equally well
to other family relationships, to friendships, to acquaintanceships and
even to our relationship to the people we pass on the street or _the
heathen we never saw_.
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