THE WIFE’S COMMANDMENTS.

Saturday Advertiser, Issue 29, 29 January 1876, Page 15

THE WIFE’S COMMANDMENTS.

(To the Editor Saturday Advertiser) .

Sill, —In a recent issue of your very interesting and able. journal I observed a string of ridiculous precepts dignified with the name of the “ Husband’s Commandments.” The author, no doubt, considers himself a very clever fellow, but if he thinks that the ladies are going to obey the mandate of every stupid boor, to whom they may have the misfortune to be w r ed, he is very much mistaken. If husbands would obey the following sensible commandments, which I have clipped from the Danbury 'News, there would be more peace and quietness in the world.

Em MALI Xl' Cathedral Square, Christchurch, January 22nd, 1876.

wife’s <jomaiaxj»iexts. 1. Thou slialt have no other wife but me. 2. Thou shalt not take into thy house any beautiful image to bow down to her, to serve her, for I, thy wife, am a jealous wife, visiting, &c.

3. Thou shalt not take thy wife’s name i in vain.

4. Remember to keep her respectably. 5. Honour thy wife’s father and mother. 6. Thou shalt not scold. 7. Thou shalt not find fault with thy dinners.

8. Thou shalt not smoke tobacco but drink tea with me.

9. Thou shalt hot be behind thy neighbours. 10. Tbou shalt not visit the rum tavern. Thou shalt not covet the tavern-keeper’s rum, nor his brandy, nor his gin, nor his whiskey, nor his wine, nor anything that is behind the bar of the rum-seller.

11. Thou shalt not visit the billiardsaloon, neither for worshipping in the dance, nor the heaps of money that lie on the table, and tlie twelfth commandment is—

12. Thou shalt not stay out later than ten o’clock at night.