Show EARNINGS MARRIED WOMEN I Nowadays They Sometimes Cut Quito n Figure in the Domestic Menace A married woman is not usually i supposed to contribute directly to the family purse says the New York Commercial I mercial Advertiser her time and strength being sufficiently taxed when she keeps house manages children and servants and administers carefully the domestic affairs which lie within her province That the husband shall provide pro-vide the means and the wife attend to their outlay saving and economizing as thriftily as she can is the ordinary arrangement sanctioned by custom and agreeable to our idea of justness and a fair division of labor It is now quite usual however for married women wo-men to supplement the income of the family by the exercise of some gift or accomplishment They write or teach or lecture or paint pi6tures they embroider em-broider or make pickles or preserves With a delightful feeling of independence indepen-dence and the most generous and tender ten-der unselfishness wives who earn money by some effort of this kind spend it for family uses It goes to pay school hills and purchase shoes Wherever there is a deficiency the supplementary sup-plementary earnings of the wife fit ins in-s easily and in so timely a manner that both husband and wife count on this added income as if it were in the anticipated order of things Often a style of living rather more expensive I than would be practicable on the husbands hus-bands salary or on the profits from his business is adopted because of the wifes earnings a larger rent is undertaken under-taken or the living of the family is on a broader scale It is not usual for a I wife to hoard or invest her earnings separately they go into the common purse and are spent either for luxuries i luxu-ries or for the benefit of the children When Will gets into a tight place i was the remark made by a woman j who wields a ready pen I sit down and write two or three stories and help him out |