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How a Woman Keeps a Secret. It is an old qu p upon women that they cannot keep secrets ; but the fact is, they are the only part of humanity who can. A wife keeps her hu-band's secret much better than he docs hers. W e calculate that there is one drunken wife to about four hundred and ninety-iiine ninety-iiine drunken husbands. In gambling, bcentiousuess, lying, cheating, hypocrisy, hypoc-risy, cov.etousness, .there is pretty much the same proportion. Yet, of the four hundred and ninety nine wives, four hundred "conceal, cover up, silently endure the terrible secret; while the one husband mourns over the frailty of his wife in the study of his pastor, and to the ear of Jiis friend, and probably complains of it in a court of law. It is the same betwexn brother and sister. sis-ter. The secrets a woman talks about are of the kind that are unimportant, and mostly agreeable to hear. But ot serious .-ecrets she is as silent as the grave. That is our observaiion ; and in our relation of physician, minister, and unorjuined law eis, we have had room for a great deal of observation. Hi.iU .nwfc Ci'itncii Adcociti. |
