LOVE, HONOUR, AND OBEY.

Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 126, 31 October 1885, Page 7

LOVE, HONOUR, AND OBEY.

On the whole, married women, that is, real women, prefer being ruled to ruliug. It is natural to a woman to seek adv.ee. It is scarcely in her nature to go speech* lessly on doing what sh*»,has to do without aid or counsel. Almost any one' of her sex is hnppier if she can " fnlk thinsr." over" with some man upon wiioSe iliscretion she relies ; and in married life most wives do, even in the smallest tuings, what " he" likes, and fancy that they like it themselves. Since independence has become the fashion, ami strongminded women have sm-ere i at their more gen lie .sisters, there is a great affedtation of despising the opLiion v,f men, but ii is all sheer j)reteuce. Almost every wife chooses her own gloves and ribbons of the tint that her husband admires, and the man she loves almost inevitably gives her her political opinions, and biasscs even her religious views. Her speech, her dross, her manners change under his influence. What he desires her to do she does in nine cases out of ten. The tenth case we find in the diTorce courts. You may rale yonr wife as you please, good married reaJer, if you only love and pet her enough. Haughtiness and fault-Jfinding alone will make her restive. And you, dear girl, remember that it will be well to choose a husband good and noble and upright, so that you may obey him to your heart's content without losing your own self-respect ; for you will obey him if you love him ; and if he be low and mean you will sink to his level slowly but surely in the course of years.