198. Hints For Wives

"It was!" "It was not!" "It was!'" "It was not!" "Ah!" Ha!" - Now who's the wiser or the better for this contention for the last word? Does obstinacy establish superiority, or elicit truth ? Decidedly not! Woman has always been described as clamoring for the last word;actors, authors, preachers, and philosophers, have agreed in attributing this trait to her, and in censuring her for it. Yet why they should condemn her, unless they wish the matter reversed, and thus committed themselves to the error imputed to her, it were difficult to discover. However, so it is; - and it remains for some one of the sex, by an exhibition of noble example, to aid in sweeping away the unpleasant imputation. The wife who will establish the rule of allowing her husband to have the last word, will achieve for herself and her sex a great moral victory! Is he right? - it were a great error to oppose him. Is he wrong? - he will soon discover it, and applaud the self-command which bore nnvexed his pertinacity. And gradually there will spring up such a happy fusion of feelings and ideas, that there will be no "last word" to contend about - but a steady and unruffled flow of generous sentiment.

199. Hints For Husbands

When once a man has established a home, his most important duties have fairly begun. The errors of youth may be overlooked; want of purpose, and even of honour, in his earlier days, may be forgotten. But from the moment of his marriage he begins to write his indolible history; not by pen and ink, but by actions - by which he must eve- afterwards be reported and judged. His conduct at home;his solicitude for his family; the training of his children; his devotion to his wife;his regard for the great inter ests of eternity; these are the tests by which his worth will ever afterwards be estimated by all who think or care about him. These will determine hie. position while living, and influence his memory when died. He uses well or ill the brief space allotted to him out of all eternity, to build up a fame found ed upon the most solid of all foundations - private worth; and God will judge him, and man judge of him accordingly.

200. Hints For Wives

Don't imagine when you have obtained a husband that your attention to personal neatness and deportment may be relaxed. Now, in reality, is the time for you to exhibit superior taste and excellence in the cultivation of your address, and the becoming elegance of your appearance. If it required some little care to foster the admiration of a lover - how much more is requisite to keep yourself lovely in the eyes of him, to whom there is now no privacy or disguise - your hourly companion? And if it was due to your lover that you should always present to him, who pro-posed to wed and cherish you, a neat and lady-like aspect; how much more is he entitled to a similar mark of respect, who has kept his promise with honourable fidelity, and linked all his hopes of future happiness with yours ? If you can manage these matters with-out appearing to study them, so much the better. Some husbands are impatient of the routine of the toilette, and not unreasonably so - they possess active and energetic spirits, sorely disturbed by any waste of time. Some wives have discovered an admirable facility in dealing with this difficulty; and it is a secret which, having been discovered by some, may be known to all - and is well worth the finding out.