THE WIFE'S COMMANDMENTS.

Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 190, 18 August 1870, Page 2

THE WIFE'S COMMANDMENTS.

1. Thou shalt have no other wife but me. 2. Thou shalt not take into thy house any beautiful brazen image of a servant girl, to bow down to her and serve her; for I am a jealous wife, visiting, etc. 3. Thou shalt not take the name of thy wife in vain.

4. Kemember thy wife to keep her respectable.

5. Honor thy wife's father and mother 6. Thou shalt not fret.

7. Thou shalt not find fault with thy dinner.

8. Thou shalt not chew tobacco

fl. Thou shalt not be behind thy neighbors. 10. Thou shalt not visit the rum tavern ; thou shalt not covet the tavern keeper's rum, nor his brandy, nor his gin, nor his wine, nor anything that his behind the bar of the rumseller.

11. Thou shalt not visit tho billiard hall, neither for worshipping in the dance, nor heaps of money that is on tho table.

And the 12th commandment is : That thou shalt not stay out later than nine o'clock at night.