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Show Are Women Careless of Money? No woman, at least in America, has any such talent as a man has for spending spend-ing money. She spends for what she believes to be beauty for raiment, books, jewels, decoration, furniture, pictures, pic-tures, marbles rarely for what does her serious harm. He spends most for bis vices, for the things that hurt him greatly. great-ly. He is apt to speculate, to bring evil to others from his love of pleasure or of gain. He will get rid of more money in a month than she would in years. She would, however ignorant of it, be appalled ap-palled by the sums he dissipates. She is constitutionally conservative; big stato-memte stato-memte of any sort are likely to alarm her. Unless desperate or frenzied, she invariably stops short of extremes. She trembles and turns pale where he, in the flush of egotism, moves undisturbed. Nearly all the talk of woman's carelessness care-lessness of money is really idle. The opinion cannot be sustained. It is mainly main-ly the echo of misapprehension. Where she is even partially enlightened on the subject, she is prone to ba very cautious in its use. Her temperamental tendency i to the opposite of carelessness. Junius Henri Browne in Ladies' Home Journal. |