THE HUSBAND’S COMMANDMENTS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 241, 23 January 1875, Page 2

THE HUSBAND’S COMMANDMENTS.

T. I AM thy husband, whom thou didst vow to love, honor, and obey; for I saved thee from old muidism and ‘the terror of single blessedness. 11. Ihou shalt not look at any other man, to love or nd mire him ; for I, thy husband, am a jealous husband, who will visit the sins of the wife upon followers; therefore keep thou faitlifully to thy marriage vows. 111. Ihou shalt not backbite thy husband, nor speak lightly of him ; neither shalt thou expose his faults to thy neighbor, lest he should hear of it, and punish thy perfidy by a deprivation of sundry items, such as bonnets, dresses, &e.

IV. 1 hou shalt purchase cigars for thy hu. - band rather than ribbons for thyself. V. thou shalt not go to tho opera or evening parlies without thy husband ; neither shall thou dance too frequently with thy ‘ cousin ” or thy “ husband’s friend.”

VI. Thou shall not listen to flattery, nor accept gifts and trinkets, from any man save thv husband. Vfl. Thou shall not rifle thy husband’s pockets for money when he is asleep ; neither shalt thou read any letters thou mayest find therein ; for it is his business to look after his own affairs, and thine to let his alone. VIIL Thou shalt conceal nothing from thy husband. IX. Thou shalt make no false representations of the state of thy pantry, thy purse, or thy wardrobe. X. Remember to rise early in the morning and be prepared with becoming good humour to welcome thy husband at the breakfast table. XI. Look for no jewelry from thy husband on the anniversary of thy wedding for it is written, “ Blessed’are they who expect nothing for verily they shall not be disappointed.

The Napier Telegraph says:—“ A novel form of advertising was adopted recently by a visitor to Gisborne. The gentleman, a distinguished member of a profession and of aristocratic appearance, finding that the local papers, which are only puba week, would not be issued for a day or two, hit upon the happy idea of making his presence known in the district by stopping every little child he met, and asked affectionately after its health, giving it a penny to buy lollies, and telling it to tell its parents that Mr. ,of Napier had arrived. We have heard that more pence were expended than fees taken.” [We think our Napier contemporary is at fault in his description. The presence of such a “ distinguished” personage, and of “ aristocratic appearance,” too, would have been too great a cariosity to have escaped notice here. — Ed. P. B. Standakd.] * “ Old Colonial says “ The following is said to be a sure test of a horses’s age : After a horse is nine years old a wrinkle comes over his eye-lid, at the upper corner of the lower lid, and every year thereafter he has one well-defined wrinkle for each year of his age over nine. If, for instance, a horse has three wrinkl s, he is twelve years old. Add the number of wrinkles to nine and you will always obtain his exact age.” This is entirely a new wrinkle.