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Show Colonel Higginson, taking up the cudgels for women on the score of economy, says: "I have known men at Newport who had made or inherited large fortunes, but who absolutely kept no account of personal expenses whatever; but their wives kept house, superintended their children and a dozen servants, inspected and paid every bill and were withal expected to have dinner company every day, always to be read for unexpected guests, and always to be serene, unruffled, and exquisitely dressed. Their husbands had nothing to do with ordering any part of the establishment except the wine cellar and the stables; and could lounge away a whole day at the club, if they wished, declaiming against the extravagance of women." |