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24 poor ordinary visitors who go to see the Zamindar must wait till midnight. I hope such Zamindars will think over the matter and change their habits so as to fit them for modern times,

In consideration of the vast demands that modern civilisation makes on our energies and thoughts, I need hardly say that no man should have more than one wife at the same time. But some of our present-day Zamindars, I regret to say, marry more than one, generally two wives. I knew a Zamindar (who died lately), who had seven married wives at the same time. But that is an extraordinary case. They marry more than one simply because their fathers did so. But they never think of the circumstances which led their fathers to marry more than one. It might be that the first wife was found to be barren or a sickly woman; or that some other Zamin-