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Show j She Supports tne 1-amily. I Score one for the "advanced woman." Score one against the theory that marriage mar-riage results in disaster because daughters daugh-ters have no dowries or wives aro 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. She Has a eosey little House, which she keeps tidy and Homelike with the aid of a single ser-: ser-: vant. She has two children, whose sew-, sew-, ing sho dues Herself, to whom she is a loving and devoted mother. But at the ; same timo she keeps up the interest ami J advances money on the mortgage which yet rests on the little Home, settles the bills of the "butcher, tho baker and the candlestick maker," pays for Her own bonnets and for the winter's coal in short, runs tho entire establishment herself. her-self. And why? Simply because sho insists upon her husband's putting tho entire amount of His salary into the bank to educate tho children or in case of future need. Tho husband's salary is fixed, nnd she is thus sure of saving a certain amount each month. Her own varies, and she makes the expenses of tho 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. |