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Rh family connections have led them to love; but in mere acquaintance they think it all affectation.

A man of ene can only love uch a woman on account of her ex, and repect her, becaue he is a truty ervant. He lets her, to preerve his own peace, cold the ervants, and go to church in clothes made of the very bet materials. A man of her own ize of undertanding would, probably, not agree o well with her; for he might wih to encroach on her prerogative, and manage ome dometic concerns himelf. Yet women, whoe minds are not enlarged by cultivation, or the natural elfihnes of enibility expanded by reflection, are very unfit to manage a family; for, by an undue tretch of power, they are always tyrannizing to upport a uperiority that only rets on the arbitrary ditinction of fortune. The evil is ometimes more erious, and dometics are deprived of innocent indulgences, and made to work beyond their trength, in order to enable the notable woman to keep a better table, and outhine her neighbours in finery and parade. If he attend to her children, it is, in general, to dres them in a cotly manner—and, whether this attention aries from vanity or fondnes, it is equally pernicious.

Beides, how many women of this, decription pas their days; or, at leat, their evenings, dicontentedly. Their hubands acknowledge that they are good managers, and chate wives; but leave home to eek for more agreeable, may I be allowed to ue a ignificant French word, piquant ociety; and the patient drudge, who fulfils her tak, like a blind hore in a mill, is defrauded of Rh