or otherwise, shall be the sole and separate property of the said Anna R- Bto manage, order, sell, dispose of, and use the same in such manner, to all intents and purposes, as if she were a feme sole and unmarried. And further, that he, the said Charles B-, his executors or administrators, or some or one of them, shall and will well and truly pay, or cause to be paid, unto the said G-R-B, his executors, administrators, or assigns, a clear weekly payment or sum of S., on Monday in each and every week during the life of the said Anna R-B-, but in trust for her, the said Anna R— B—, for her separate maintenance and support. And the said G— R— B—, for himself, his heirs, executors, and administrators, doth hereby covenant and agree to, and with the said Charles B-, his executors, administrators, and assigns, that she, the said Anna R-B-, shall not nor will not, at any time or times hereafter, in anywise molest or disturb him, the said Charles B—, or apply for any restitution of conjugal rights, or for alimony, or for any further or other allowance or separate maintenance than the said weekly sum of 8. And that he, the said G-RB-, his heirs, executors, or administrators, shall and will, from time to time, at all times hereafter, save, defend, and keep harmless and indemnify the said Charles B-, his heirs, executors, and administrators, and his and their lands, and tenements, goods and chattels, of, from, and against all and all manner of action and actions, suit and suits, and all other proceedings whatsoever which shall or may at any time hereafter be brought, commenced, or prosecuted against him, the said Charles B—, his heirs, executors, or administrators, or any of them, and also of, from, and against all and every sum and sums of money, costs, damages, and expences which he, the said Charles B-, his executors, administrators, and assigns, shall or may be obliged to pay, or shall or may suffer, sustain, or be put unto for, or by reason, or on account of any

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debt or debts which shall, at any time hereafter, during such separation as aforesaid, be contracted by the said Anna R-B-, or by reason, or means, or on account of any act, matter, cause, or thing, whatsoever relating thereto. In witness whereof, the said parties to these presents have hereunto set their hands and seals, the day and year first above written.

[The above has been written for Enquire Within by a legal gentleman, whose attention has been devoted to the many unhappy cases of married life, which, judging from the experience of our police courts, appear to be on the increase. It is not generally known that such a deed may be materially entered into.]

191. HUSBAND AND WIFE.Being hints to each other for the good of both, as actually delivered at our own table :

192. HINTS FOR WIVES. If your husband occasionally looks a little troubled when he comes home, do not say to him, with an alarmed countenance, "What ails you, my dear?" Don't bother him; he will tell you of his own accord, if need be. Don't rattle a hailstorm of fun about his ears either; be observant and quiet. Don't suppose whenever he is silent and thoughtful that you are of course the cause. Let him alone until he is inclined to talk; take up your book or your needlework (pleasantly, cheerfully; no pouting-no sullenness), and wait until he is inclined to be sociable. Don't let him ever find a shirt-button missing. A shirt-button being off a collar or wrist-band has frequently produced the first hurricane in married life. Men's shirt-collars never fit exactly-see that your husband's are made as well as possible, and then, if he does fret a little about them, never mind it; men have a prescriptive right to fret about shirt-collars.

193. HINTS FOR HUSBANDS.-If your wife complains that young ladies " nowa-day" are very forward, don't accuse

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her of jealousy. A little concern on her part only proves her love for you, and you may enjoy your triumph without saying a word. Don't evince your weakness either, by complaining of every trifling neglect. What though her chair is not set so close to yours as it used to be, or though her knitting and crochet seem to absorb too large a share of her attention, depend upon it that, as her eyes watch the intertwinings of the threads, and the manoeuvres of the needles as they dance in compliance to her delicate fingers, she is thinking of courting days, love-letters, smiles, tears, suspicions, and reconciliations, by which your two hearts became entwined together in the network of love, whose meshes you can neither of you unravel or escape.

194. HINTS FOR WIVES.-Never complain that your husband pores too much over the newspaper, to the exclusion of that pleasing converse which you formerly enjoyed with him. Don't hide the paper; don't give it to the children to tear; don't be sulky when the boy leaves it at the door; but take it in pleasantly, and lay it down before your spouse. Think what man would be without a newspaper; treat it as a great agent in the work of civilisation, which it assuredly is; and think how much good newspapers have done by exposing bad husbands and bad wives, by giving their errors to the eye of the public. But manage you in this way: when your husband is absent, instead of gossipping with neighbours, or looking into shop windows, sit down quietly, and look over that paper; run your eye over its home and foreign news; glance rapidly at the accidents and casualties; carefully scan the leading articles; and at tea-time, when your husband again takes up the paper, say, My dear, what an awful state of things there seems to be in India;" or what a terrible calamity at the Glasgow theatre;" or "trade appears to be flourishing in the north!" and depend upon it down will go the paper. If he has not read the information, he will

hear it all from your lips, and when you have done, he will ask, "Did you, my dear, read Simpson's letter upon the discovery of chloroform?" And whether you did or not, you will gradually get into as cosy a chat as you ever enjoyed; and you will soon discover that, rightly used, the newspaper is the wife's real friend, for it keeps the husband at home, and supplies capital topics for every-day table-talk.

195. HINTS FOR HUSBANDS. You can hardly imagine how refreshing it is to occasionally call up the recollection of your courting days. How tediously the hours rolled away prior to the appointed time of meeting; how swift they seemed to fly, when met; how fond was the first greeting; how tender the last embrace; how fervent were your vows; how vivid your dreams of future happiness, when, returning to your home, you felt yourself secure in the confessed love of the object of your warm affections. Is your dream realised?-are you so happy as you expected? Why not? Consider whether as a husband you are as fervent and constant as you were when a lover. Remember that the wife's claims to your unremitting regard-great before marriage, are now exalted to a much higher degree. She has left the world for you the home of her childhood, the fireside of her parents, their watchful care and sweet intercourse have all been yielded up for you. Look then most jealously upon all that may tend to attract you from home, and to weaken that union upon which your temporal happiness mainly depends; and believe that in the solemn relationship of husband is to be found one of the best guarantees for man's honour and happiness.

196. HINTS FOR WIVES.-Perchance you think that your husband's disposition is much changed; that he is no longer the sweet-tempered, ardent lover he used to be. This may be a mistake. Consider his struggles with the worldhis everlasting race with the busy competition of trade. What is it makes

him so eager in the pursuit of gain so energetic by day, so sleepless by night-but his love of home, wife, and children, and a dread that their respectability, according to the light in which he has conceived it, may be encroached upon by the strife of existence. This is the true secret of that silent care which preys upon the hearts of many men; and true it is, that when love is least apparent, it is nevertheless the active principle which animates the heart, though fears and disappointments make up a cloud which obscures the warmer element. As above the clouds there is glorious sunshine, while below are showers and gloom, so with the conduct of man-behind the gloom of anxiety is a bright fountain of high and noble feeling. Think of this in those moments when clouds seem to lower upon your domestic peace, and, by tempering your conduct accordingly, the gloom will soon pass away, and warmth and brightness take its place.

197. HINTS FOR HUSBANDS.-Summer is the season of love! Happy birds mate, and sing among the trees; fishes dart athwart the running streams, and leap from their element in resistless ecstasy; cattle group in peaceful nooks, by cooling streams; even the flowers seem to love as they twine their tender arms around each other, and throw their wild tresses about in beautiful profusion; the happy swain sits with his loved and loving mistress beneath the sheltering oak, whose arms spread out, as if to shield and sanctify their pure attachment. What shall the husband do now, when earth and heaven seem to meet in happy union? Must he still pore over the calculations of the counting-house, or cease lessly pursue the toils of the workroom-sparing no moment to taste the joys which Heaven measures out so liberally? No! "Come, dear wife, let us once more breathe the fresh air of heaven, and look upon the beauties of earth. The summers are few we may dwell together; we will not give them all to Mammon. Again let our

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hearts glow with emotions of renewed love-our feet shall again tread the green sward, and the music of the rustling trees shall mingle in our whisperings of love!"

198.-HINTS FOR WIVES.-"It was !" "It was not!" "It was!" "It was not!" "Ah!" "Ha!"-Now who's the wiser or the better for this contention for the last word? Does obstinacy establish superiority, or elicit truth? Decidedly not! Woman has always been described as clamouring for the last word: actors, authors, preachers, and philosophers, have agreed in attributing this trait to her, and in censuring her for it. Yet why they should condemn her, unless they wish the matter reversed, and thus committed themselves to the error imputed to her, it were difficult to discover. However, so it is;-and it remains for some one of the sex, by an exhibition of noble example, to aid in sweeping away the unpleasant imputation. The wife who will establish the rule of allowing her husband to have the last word, will achieve for herself and her sex a great moral victory! Is he right ?-it were a great error to oppose him. Is he wrong?-he will soon discover it, and applaud the self-command which bore unvexed his pertinacity. And gradually there will spring up such a happy fusion of feelings and ideas, that there will be no "last word" to contend about-but a steady and unruffled flow of generous sentiment.

199. HINTS FOR HUSBANDS.-When once a man has established a home, his most important duties have fairly begun. The errors of youth may be overlooked; want of purpose, and even of honour, in his earlier days may be forgotten. But from the moment of his marriage he begins to write his indelible history; not by pen and ink, but by actions-by which he must ever afterwards be reported and judged. His conduct at home; his solicitude for his family; the training of his children; his devotion to his wife; his regard for the great interests of eter

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nity; these are the tests by which his worth will ever afterwards be estimated by all who think or care about him. These will determine his position while living, and influence his memory when dead. He uses well or ill the brief space allotted to him, out of all eternity, to build up a fame founded upon the most solid of all foundations-private worth; and God will judge him, and man judge of him, accordingly.

200. HINTS FOR WIVES.-Don't imagine when you have obtained a husband, | that your attention to personal neatness and deportment may be relaxed. Now, in reality, is the time for you to exhibit superior taste and excellence in the cultivation of your address, and the becoming elegance of your appearance. If it required some little care to foster the admiration of a loverhow much more is requisite to keep yourself lovely in the eyes of him, to whom there is now no privacy or disguise your hourly companion? And if it was due to your lover that you should always present to him, who proposed to wed and cherish you, a neat and lady-like aspect; how much more is he entitled to a similar mark of respect, who has kept his promise with honourable fidelity, and linked all his hopes of future happiness with yours? If you can manage these matters without appearing to study them, so much the better. Some husbands are impatient of the routine of the toilette, and not unreasonably so they possess active and energetic spirits, sorely disturbed by any waste of time. Some wives have discovered an admirable facility in dealing with this difficulty; and it is a secret which, having been discovered by some, may be known to all-and is well worth the finding out. 201. HINTS FOR HUSBANDS.-Custom entitles you to be considered the "lord and master over your household. But don't assume the master and sink the lord. Remember that noble generosity, forbearance, amiability, and integrity, are among the more lordly attributes of man. As a husband,

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therefore, exhibit the true nobility of man, and seek to govern your own household by the display of high moral excellence. A domineering spirit fault-finding petulance-impatience of trifling delays and the exhibition of unworthy passions at the slightest provocation, can add no laurel to your own "lordly" brow, impart no sweetness to home, and call forth no respect from those by whom you may be surrounded. It is one thing to be a master—another thing to be a man. The latter should be the husband's aspiration; for he who cannot govern himself is ill-qualified to govern another.

202. HINTS ΤΟ WIVES. It is astonishing how much the cheerfulness of a wife contributes to the happiness of home. She is the sun-the centre of a domestic system, and her children are like planets around her, reflecting her rays. How merry the little ones look when the mother is joyous and good-tempered; and how easily and pleasantly her household labours are overcome! Her cheerfulness is reflected everywhere it is seen in the neatness of her toilette, the order of her table, and even the seasoning of her dishes. We remember hearing a husband say that he could always guage the temper of his wife by the quality of her cooking: good temper even influenced the seasoning of her soups, and the lightness and delicacy of her pastry. When ill-temper pervades, the pepper is dashed in as a cloud; perchance the top of the pepper-box is included, as a kind of diminutive thunderbolt; the salt is all in lumps; and the spices seem to betake themselves all to one spot in a pudding, as if dreading the frowning face above them. If there be a husband who could abuse the smiles of a really good-tempered wife, we should like to look at him! No, no, such a phenomenon does not exist. Among elements of domestic happiness, the amiability of the wife and mother is of the utmost importance—it is one of the best securities for THE HAPPINESS OF HOME.

203. HINTS FOR HOME COMFORTS. A short needle makes the most expedition in plain sewing.

When you are particular in wishing to have precisely what you want from a butcher's, go and purchase it yourself.

One flannel petticoat will wear nearly as long as two, if turned behind part before, when the front begins to wear thin.

People in general are not aware how very essential to the health of their inmates is the free admission of light into their houses.

A leather strap, with a buckle to fasten, is much more commodious than a cord for a box in general use for short distances; cording and uncording is a nasty job.

There is not any real economy in purchasing cheap calico for gentlemen's night shirts. The calico cuts in holes, and soon becomes bad coloured in washing.

Sitting to sew by candle-light by a table with a dark cloth on it is injurious to the eye-sight. When no other remedy presents itself, put a sheet of white paper before you.

People very commonly complain of indigestion: how can it be wondered at, when they seem by their habit of swallowing their food wholesale, to forget for what purpose they are provided with teeth.

Never allow your servants to put wiped knives on your table, for, generally speaking, you may see that they have been wiped with a dirty cloth. If a knife is brightly cleaned, they are compelled to use a clean cloth.

There is not anything gained in economy by having very young and inexperienced servants at low wages; they break, waste, and destroy more than an equivalent for higher wages, setting aside comfort and respectability. No article in dress tarnishes so readily as black crape trimmings, and few things injure it more than damp: therefore, to preserve its beauty on bonnets, a lady in nice mourning should

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in her evening walks, at all seasons of the year, take as a companion an old parasol to shade her crape.

A piece of oil-cloth (about twenty inches long) is a useful appendage to a common sitting-room. Kept in the closet, it can be available at any time to place jars upon, &c. &c., which are likely to soil your table during the process of dispensing their contents: a wing and duster are harmonious accompaniments to the oil-cloth.

In most families many members are not fond of fat: servants seldom like itconsequently there is frequently much wasted; to avoid which, take off bits of suet fat from beefsteaks, &c., previous to cooking; they can be used for puddings. With good management there need not be any waste in any shape or form.

Nothing looks worse than shabby gloves; and, as they are expensive articles in dress, they require a little management. A good glove will last six cheap ones with care. Do not wear your best gloves to night church-the heat of the gas, &c., gives a moisture to the hands, that spoils the gloves; do not wear them in very wet weather; as carrying umbrellas, and drops of rain, spoil them.

A given quantity of tea is similar to malt-only giving strength to a given quantity of water, as we find therefore any additional quantity is waste. Two small tea-spoonfuls of good black tea, and one three parts full of green, is sufficient to make three teacupfuls agreeable, the water being put in, in a boiling state at once: a second edition of water gives a vapid flavour to tea.

It may sound like being over particular, but we recommend persons to make a practice of fully addressing notes, &c., on all occasions; when, in case of their being dropped by careless messengers (which is not a rare occurrence), it is evident for whom they are intended, without undergoing the inspection of any other parties bearing a similar name.

Children should not be allowed to