| Show WHO SHALL L HOLD THE PURSE arc list women wore more to bannie than men in the matter of money talk about german women being oppressed and downtrodden 1 said a spirited daughter of that nation we may hack our husbands shoes now and then than if there is no servant to do labut in u one thing it if I 1 have been informed r rightly wo we have greatly the advantage of american women it is taken for granted with us that tho the wife mu must t have the spending of tho the main part of the income for all the family needs need that is ia her part of tho the work this view has been always held as I 1 know and I 1 assure you that tyrannical husbands find somo other way ol 01 making their power felt than by holding back the money for daily necessaries why the bills must be met the tha family must livo live in ill the style decided on as proportioned to tho the income why haggle about it but I 1 am told that in america wives rarely hold the family purse and unless a woman has money in her own right eho cho must ask often be beg for every penny she bhe has why a german woman would feel degraded with that sort of treatment Do besides sideshow how can sho bho wisely plan unless sho can know how much money sho in ini ha i to uso use during the mouth month or the quarter what one can afford is all a matter of comparison and proportion it is tho the most common thing in our lower and middle classes for tho the wife to draw the pay keep tho the bankbook and order the expenditure of every penny of tho the income even to buying tho the hus hug bands clothes the reason why tho the married woman in our country does not havo have as a mattor matter of course more power over the income seems to be partly her own fault does doeg ohe ebo sta start rt out right riia in the very first year Is she imbued with the idea that she eha and her husband are founding 0 family whoso choso prosperity and whose standing in the community ia is their common interest does she abe feel that in this matter thero there is ia no and beum that all plans and sacrifices must ba bernado made together there ar are e plenty of cases where I 1 a selfish or thoughtless young man hag bag I 1 been brought to this view of things by a clever wife and thenceforth they were equal partners with equal rights rig ats but lot let a woman once begin that childish teasing for anew gown or new furniture and suspicions auspicious are aroused in the of the money earner that it will bo be hard to allay if ho he is a man of any character bovill he will feel that he must protect his fatally family ns cs to the essentials a safe sur plus in the bank account and a growing fund for old ago age or emergencies il ro lo 10 begins to prefer paying bills whose items he can scan to giving ready money into tho the hands handa of his wife she will jikko mistakes Inist alces now and then but it if in stead of owning them 4 up and taking counsel as to better ways she deceives and conceals con ceala she is sealing her fate H feels if bo does not know this concealment and now and then ho he will know it and tho the painful result is well enough known tous to us it would bo to hear from every woman who finds hi heit belf in middle life lacking the confidence of her husband in money matt matters whether tho the fault is entirely his or if sho she does not in looking back find fina grave amsi takes on her own sido mary IL abel I 1 in st louis republic Ro publio |
