The husband should cherish his wife-
1. By treating her with respect.

2. By treating her with kindness.

3. By being faithful to her.

4.

By causing her to be honoured by others. 5. By giving her suitable ornaments and clothes.*

-GAUTAMA.

The season of adversity and affliction is peculiarly calculated to call forth the female character, and to show a man the real value of his conjugal possession.† -MRS. COPLEY.

A judge says that marriage revokes a man's will. Precious few men ever stay long married without finding out that they have no will of their own.

As no man can tell where a shoe pinches better than he that wears it, so no man can tell a woman's diaposition better than he that hath wedded her.

No monied man has the moral right to enter on engagements or speculations hazarding his estate without the consent of his wife.

HUSBAND'S DUTY.

There is first love. *

*This utterly forbids all

harshness and roughness to them; men are to use them as parts of themselves, to love them as their own bodies, and therefore to do nothing that may be hurtful and grievous to them, no more than they would cut and gash their own flesh.

From David's Buddhism.
From The Young Wife.

A second duty of the husband is faithfulness.

A third duty of the husband is to maintain and provide for the wife. He is to let her partake with him in those outward good things wherewith God hath blessed him, and neither by niggardliness debar her of what is fit for her, nor yet by unthriftiness to waste his goods, that he shall become unable to support her. This certainly is the duty of the husband, who, being to account his wife as a part of his own body must have the very same care to sustain her, that he hath for himself. Fourthly, the husband is to instruct the wife in the things that concern her eternal welfare, if she be ignorant of them.

Lastly husbands and wives are mutually to pray for each other, to beg all blessings from God, both spiritual and temporal, and to endeavour all they can to do good to one another, especially to each other's souls, by stir ring up to the performance of duty, and dissuading and drawing back from all sin, and by being like two yoke-fellows helpful and assistant to each other, in the doing of all sorts of good, both to their own family, and all others within their reach. This is of all others the truest and most valuable love.

"THE WHOLE DUTY OF MAN."

'Tis not in fate to harm me,

While fate leaves thy love to me;

'Tis not in joy to charm me,
Unless joy be shared with thee.

I do not promise that our life

-MOORE.

Shall know no shade on heart or brow:

For human lot and mortal strife

Would mock the falsehood of such yow.

But when the clouds of pain and care
Shall teach us we are not divine;
My deepest sorrows thou shalt share,
And I will strive to lighten thine.

-ELIZA COOK.

WISHES.

L

I

Say, what should be thy first wish, if
A fairy said to thee:
"Now ask a boon-I'll grant it—
Whatever it may be."

The first wish of thy heart, I think,
May easily be told;

Confide in me, deny it not

Thy wish would be for gold.
II

Oh, no! thou art mistaken;

That should not be the boon;
My thirst for this world's lucre

Is ever sated soon.

The only gold I prize is such

As industry hath bought,

And gold like that, from fairy hands,
Would fruitlessly be sought.

III

Then say, what would thy first wish be?

Ambition's laurell'd name?

The pride of popularity,

The pinnacle of fame ?

The pamper'd board of luxury,
Where crowds of menials wait?
Thy second wish will still be gold,
To furnish forth thy state.

IV

Ah! no, the days are long gone by,
When such had been my choice;
I ask not fame-far more I prize
The self-approving voice.

My first wish should not be for fame,
My second not for gold;
But listen to me patiently,

My wishes shall be told.

Oh, give me but a happy home,
To share with her I love;
Oh, let me from her path of life
Each anxious care remove.

And like the sweet days of the past,

66

I'll never ask for more.

-T. HAYNES BAYLY.

TO A LADY.-WITH A RING.

Thee, Mary, with this ring I wed,”
So, sixteen years ago, I said.
Behold another ring-" For what?"
To wed thee o'er again. Why not?
With the first ring I married youth,
Grace, beauty, innocence, and truth:
Taste long admired, sense long revered,
And all my Mary then appear'd.
If she, by merit since disclosed,
Prove twice the woman I supposed,
I plead that double merit now

To justify a double vow.

Here, then, to-day, with faith as sure,

With ardour as intense and pure,

As when, amidst the rites divine,
I took thy troth, and plighted mine;
To thee, dear wife, this second ring,
A token and a pledge I bring:
With it I wed, till death us part,
Thy riper virtues to my heart;
Those virtues which, before untried,
The wife has added to the bride;
Those virtues whose progressive claim,
Endearing wedlock's very name,

My soul enjoys, my song approves,
For conscience sake as well as love's.
For why? They show me hour by hour,
Honour's high thought, affection's power,
Discretion's deed, sound judgment's sentence;
And teach me all things-but repentence.

May every reader, after an equal length of trial, merit a similar testimony, and be united to one who as honourably willing to accord it.*

-MRS. COPLEY

WIFE.

A wife is half the man, his truest friend-
A loving wife is a perpetual spring
Of virtue, pleasure, wealth; a faithful wife
Is his best aid in seeking heavenly bliss;
A sweetly-speaking wife is a companion
In solitude; a father in advice;

A mother in all seasons of distress;

A rest in passing through life's wilderness.†

"MAHABHARATA.'

• From The Young Wife.

From Indian Wisdom by Monier Williams.