The New Hampshire Gazette

To the Printer:

As you publish'd Rules and Maxims to be observed by
the Female Sex, (in your Paper of December 19) it
will be but doing Justice to publish the counterpart,
which will oblige many of your Readers, as well as
Your Humble Servant,

TABITHA TEMPERANCE.

Rules and Maxims for promoting matrimonial hap-
piness, addressed to all widowers, husbands and
batchelors, in Old and New-England.

A man was appointed by God, to be Lord of the Crea-
tion, he should govern with a gentle sway, and not
act the part of a tyrant to his wife, children or servants;
for he who resolves to be feared, cannot expect to be loved.
As the woman is deemed the weaker vessel, the man
should give grains of allowance for her frailties; and if
she should appear to him, from a mistaken notion, to be too
warm in a wrong cause, add not fuel to the fire, by a
spirit of contradiction, but let her passions subside, before
you attempt to convince her of her error, and then do it
with coolness and deliberation.

Let the husband give his company to his wife at his meals,
and other times, as often as his business will permit, and
consult her upon all necessary occasions, as his real friend;
by observing such a conduct, he will be better enabled to go
through the various incidents of human life, and greatly
lessen his cares and anxieties.

Whether his wife be in sickness or in health, remember
it is his duty to love and to cherish her, even though he
may not altogether answer his most sanguine expectations;
and this done, no doubt will remain, but that she will chear-
fully obey so endearing a husband.

In a word, the likeliest way for a man to obtain a good
wife, or keep one so, is to be good himself.