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Show I' , ( She Support the Family, : Score one for the "advanced woman." i Score one against the theory that mar riage results in disaster because daughters daugh-ters have no dowries or wives are expensive ex-pensive luxuries, One particular advanced ad-vanced woman whom I know lives in Brooklyn, and is correspondent for one of the city journals. bhe has a coaey little house, which Bhe keeps tidy and homelike with the aid of a single servant. ser-vant. She has two children, whose sewing sew-ing she does herself, to whom she is a loving and devoted mother. But at the eame time she keeps up the interest and advances money on the mortgage which J et rents on the little home, settles the bills of the "butcher, the bakor and the candlestick maker," pays for her own honnets and for the winter's coal in short, runs the entire establishment her- j Belf. I And why? Simply because she insists j Bpon her husband's putting the entire amount of his salary into the bank to educate the children or in case of future i need. The husband's salary is fixed, and the is thns sure of saving a certain amount each inontk Her own varies, and she makes the expenses of tho family fam-ily vary accordingly. The children have cheaper shoes or they go without new carpets if her stuff is cut or "returned With thanks." New York Sun. I |