Neglected Wives.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 933, 17 January 1890, Page 4

Neglected Wives.

The young husband at Ashbury Park, who has lost his wife through the old fault of leaving her entertainment to other men, deserves at least a part of his shame and misery.

The husband—and particularly the young husband—who ‘finds more solace at his desk than in his wife’s company,’ or who leaves her to find diversion as she may in the gaieties of summer resort promiscuous pleasure-seeking while he plays billiards or poker with his cronies, may expect to be scandalised unless his wife is altogether too good for him—as she generally is. Tbe ways and the honest art which won a wife will always keep her if she is worth keeping. The husband who cannot pay his wife more delicate and acceptable attentions, more agreeable compliments and finer courtesies, than any of the would-be flirts who seek to flatter her, may not deserve to lose her love, but he ought at least to make an effort to please which no true wife ever fails to recognise and appreciate. Chief among the conjugal duties is that of protection to a wife. It is self-protection as well. And apparently by neglecting it the ‘bright and rising young lawyer’ at Ashbury Park, that resort of the truly good, has come to grief.—N.Y. World.