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19 11. Never meddle with domestie or househould concerns, they are not for a man's care. Be careful in your expenditure, and waste nothing, though you must be liberal to the poor. Never swear, nor storm, nor blow up. Let your home be the pole star of your affections, and always spend your evenings there.

12. Always pay attention to your wife, in society as well as in private, and show yourself fully aware of her good qualities. All your happiness is reposed in her. Never show any thing like indifference or slight ; she will repay your kindness by that tenderness of affection which is worth all the world beside. Seek no pleasure to which she cannot be made a party.

MAXIMS FOR MARRIED LADIES.

1. LET every wife be persuaded that there are two ways of governing a family ; the first is by the expression of that which will belong to foree ; the second to the power of mildness, to which every strength will yield. One is the power of the husband ; a wife should never employ any other arms tban of gentleness. When a woman aceustoms herself to say, I will, she deserves to lose her empire.

2. Avoid contradieting your husband. When we smell at a rose, it is to imbibe the sweets of its odour ; we likewise look for every thing that is amiable in woman. Whoever is often contradicted feels insensibly an aversion for the person who contradiets, which gains strength by time ; and, whatever be her qualities, is not easily destroyed.

3. Occupy yourself only with household affairs ; wait till your husband confides to you those of higher importance, and do not give your advice till he asks it.

4. Never take upon yourself to be a censor of your husband's morals, and do not rend leetures to him. Let your preaching be a good example, and practise virtue yourself to make him in love with it.

5. Command his attention by being always attentive to him ; never exact any thing, and you will obtain much ; appear always flattered by the little he does for you, which will excite him to perform more.

6. All men are vain ; never wound his vanity, not even in the most trifling instances. A wife may have more sense than her husband, but she should never seem to know it.

7. When a man gives wrong counsel, never make him feel that he has done so ; but lead him on by degrees to what is