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them in sickness and in health, but they are so selfish in that feel- 

 ing. They don't come out with a hearty — "Why how pleasant you 

 make things look, wife!" or "I am obliged to you for taking so 

 much pains! " They thank the tailor, giving them "fits;" they 

 thank the man in a full omnibus who gives them a seat ; they thank 

 the young lady who moves along in the concert room — in short 

 they thank everything out of doors, because it is the custom, and 

 come home, tip their chairs back and their hec's up, pull out the 

 newspaper, grumble if wife asks them to take the baby, scold if the 

 fire has got down, or, if everything is just right, shut their mouths 

 "with a smack of satisfaction, but never say, " I thank you." 



I tell you what, men, young and old, if you did but show an 

 ordinary civility toward those common articles of house-keeping, 

 your wives, if you gave them the hundred and sixteenth part of the 

 compliments you almost chocked them with before jiou were married, 

 if you would stop the badinage about who you were going to have 

 ■when number one is dead (such things wives may laugh at but they 

 sink deep sometimes), if you would cease to speak of their faults, 

 however banteringly, before others, fewer women would seek for 

 other sources of happiness than your apparently cold sottish afi"ec- 

 tion. Praise your wife, then, and you may rest assured that her 

 deficiencies are fully counterbalanced by your own. 



ANNUAL EXHIBITION OF THE CINCINNATI HORTI- 

 CULTURAL SOCIETY FOR 1857. 



The gardners and fruit-growers comprising the Cincinnati Hor- 

 ticultural Society are determined not to be surpassed in any pre- 

 vious efforts of their own, or by others, at their Annual Exhibition, 

 which opens on the 8th of the present month. While after much 

 discussion and some feeling, it was thought by this Society, or the 

 majority of it, to have their Annual Exhibition at the same time of 

 the State Fair, yet it was their purpose it should be with undimin- 

 ished interest and effort to make the State Fair all that it otherwise 

 could be on their part; presenting the additional advantage of a 

 pleasant place of resort for the crowd of citizens and strangers 

 during the evening, when the State Fair would necessarily be closed. 

 We have no doubt this Society will fully maintain her deservedly 

 high reputation, for her rich, floral and pomonal wealth, as well as 

 her taste and talent in their attractive arrangement and display. — Ed. 



