The American Women

The Juno nuinboi1 of 1 lie Hours at Home has an artitfle on " How to Troat our Wives," whioh those who think tliat love is not an cssential clement of trve marriage wil! do vvell to rond. The arti' c!c is too long for insertion in our paper. The fullowing are the closing paragrapbs of it: " The American wornnn is what tho AHlerican rtinn re(iiires her to bc, and wliat American inatitutboná and influentes enable her (o be. Tliere is constant and fruhful efTort on the part of toen to secure for their daugliter.s Lnd for general feirale society tlio best advantages for edueation and culture; and these same men do this with wives ín their liomes who are treated little botter than bousekeepers. They are not regarded i s partners; they are not Ireated as intiinato and confidnutial cotnpanionf. Equality of position, identity of Interest, lonimunity of sïns, affectionate and contiderute tenderness and revpectfulnesa (f demeanor, tliorough synipatliy that thows itself in all private aud family terconrso, oertniüly do not prevail bo'tween American husbands nnd wivcs ■wben regardcd in the nggfegate. " Some will bo disposed to dony this who only soe lifo under some of its more favored phases ; but those who are aoquaiated witb all classes, in city and country, cannot ñííl to fee&gaiie tho Iruthfulnes9 of tbo Women uro denied tho sympn-flïy and society of their husband.s to a shamefui extent. - They are kopt in a pcsition of depeadence, and mude tö fee? their dependenee; they are made tö asfe for money for tlieir personal use, and cornpelled to feel like mendicanta iu duing Thero are multitudes of wives, supposed to be well married, who never approach their husbands for mouey without a sehae of humiliation. Now any mdn thát compela the woman of bis lovo to do thisinfiults ber womanhood, degrades her, denies e.ssentially his marrlage vows, and does bis best to kül out her respect for him, and to mako the connnbial bond an irksome one. A vvife vho is made to foei that pho is a beggar, is no longer a wife, exoept in name. A. wife' w!io ia compelled to feel that she bas fcö rights except timse whioh her hu'sband accords to her from bour to bour, ldses her spirit and solf-respect, and becomes a menial in feeling and in fact."