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20 rational, with mildness and gentleness ; when he is convinced, leave him to the merit of having found out what is just and reasonable.

8. When a husband is out of temper, behave obligingly to him ; if he is abusive, never retort ; and never prevail over him to humble him.

9. Choose well your friends, have but few, and be careful of following their adviee in all in matters.

10. Cherish neatness without luxury, and pleasure without excess ; dress with taste, partieularly with modesty ; vary the fashions of your dress, especially in regard to colours. It gives a change to the ideas, and reealls pleasing recolleetions. Sueh things may appear trifling, hut they are of more importance than is imagined.

11. Never be curious to pry into your husband's concerns, but obtain his confidence at all times, by that which you repose in him. Always preserve order and eeonomy ; avoid being out of temper, and be careful never to seold ; by these means he will find his own house pleasanter than any other.

12. Seem always to obtain information from him, especially before company, though you may pass yourself for a simpleton. Never forget that a wife owes all her importance to that of her husband. Leave him entirely master of his own actions, to go or come whenever he thinks fit. A wife ought to make her company amiable to her husband, that he will not be able to exist without it, then he will not seek for pleasure abroad, if she do not partake of it with him.

THE CAUSES OF MEN WANTING MONEY.

SINCE money is a thing so necessary and so useful, and the want of a competeney of it, makes a man so very miserable, rendering him liable to all the scorn and contempt tbat an ill-natured world can throw upon him ; it seems strange so many should want it, especially those that know the worth of it. And, therefore, it may be worth our inquiring into the eanses from whence this want proeeeds, I mean the common and ordinary canses ; for there are some causes that are extraordinary, snch as all our wit and prudenee ean neither foresee nor avoid. Such was that extraordinary and surprising storm in November 1703, whereby many thousands were undone as to their estates, besides the many lives that were lost ; and such also was the dreadful fire in London, whereby some that had great estates