The Caledonian

HOW TO TREAT A WIFE.

First, get a wife.

Secondly, be patient. You may have great trials and perplexities in your business, and in your intercourse with the world; but do not, therefore carry to your wife a clouded or contracted brow.—Your wife may have had trials, which, though of less magnitude, may have been as hard to bear. Do not increase her difficulties. A kind conciliating word, a tender look will do wonders in chasing from her brow all clouds and gloom. You encounter your difficulties in open air, fanned by heaven's cool breezes, but your wife is often shut in from these healthful influences, and her health fails, and her spirits lose their elasticity.

But O, bear with her, she has trials and sorrows to which you are a stranger, but which your tenderness can deprive of all their keenness.

Notice kindly her little attentions and efforts to promote your comfort. Do not take them all as a matter of course, and pass them by, at the same time being very sure to observe any omission of what you may consider her duty to you. Do not treat her with indifference, if you would not sear and palsy a heart, which watered by gentleness and kindness, would to the latest day of your existence throb with sincere and constant affection.

Sometimes yield your wishes to hers. She has preferences as strong as you, and it may be just as trying to her to yield her choice as to you. Do you find it hard to yield sometimes? Think you it is not difficult for her to give up always? If you never yield to her wishes, there is danger that she will feel you are selfish, and care only for yourself, and with such a feeling she cannot love you as she ought. Again show yourself manly, so that your wife can look up to you, and feel that you will act nobly, and that she can confide in your judgment.

From the Newark Daily Advertiser.