The Archive · 1921

MATRIMONIAL COMMANDMENTS

Two Versions of the New Law While perusing a dusty bound volume of "Social Shanghai," we} came across the modern ''Tables of the Law" for husband and wife. They appear in the June number, 1909, and as they are unsigned, their author is wrapped in much mystery as the author of the original Ten Commandments. They are full of pertinent (rud impertinent) advice, and i. cheir rescue from obscurity does not result in their wholesale adoption by present-day brides and grooms, it may possibly be the cause of momentary enjoyment of their humour.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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