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Show THE WIFE'S, EARNINGS. ; T)ie wife is a wage-earning woman, but she is generally, underpaid. In all the vast hullabaloo raised over the ladles who go forth and - make their own wy In the world -a-word is due the' wife r.nd, mother,, who Is a. harder worker than the busiest of them.-, A husband . supports his wife, so runs the popular prejudice.' Yet. 'where could he find a housekeeper, nurse, mother and general buffer to' work for her board and clothes as does his wife, so long as her life. shall last? Not for three, five, 'nay, nor eight flunks a week; this is the truth. Speaking always al-ways of the wife who works rather than the idler wife with no. children, society's moth, who eats holes forever In the useful world fabric, but knows not nor cares not to repair them.- A man supports his wife, yet often she is the rrop that holds him. up resplendent before the world. Philadelphia Telegraph. Tele-graph. . |