text:  Have not the wives of England husbands to whisper wisdom into their ears? Why then are _they_ to be coaxed or lectured by tabby-bound volumes while _we_ are left neglected in a corner? _Our_ earthly career the Lord he knows is far more trying--_our_ temptations as much greater as our pleasures are less; and it is mortifying indeed to find our behavior a thing so little worth interference