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Show Wmmm w N I l&fy j& &m vwi&& " sfylM'yA win 'lllllN? BY MRS. McCUNE. fjg-3 ERE in tho paper it tells about llj m m a man who is suing his wifo I l-s-'l for a share in tho 10,000 sho has saved out of his salary," began the young man. "Seems he's handed his pay envelope over to her all his lifo and now sho's dividing up tho money between their children in her will and not leaving the tld man 'anything. Protty mean deal, I call that. Before I'd band over all my pay to any woman !" "Aren't married, arc you?" asked the older man, who happens to bo a lawyer. "Naw," disgustedly. "And If I over am, you bet I'll bo the boss and kcop my hand on the pocketbook " "And when you're as old as tho man who is suing his wife for a share in her savings,'" commented tho lawyer, "you won't havo a cent to your name. How much havo you saved up to date?" "Geo, you don't think a follow can Bavo much on my salary, with living expenses what they are?" queried tho young follow. "Gee. it's all a fellow can do to get along without borrowing With most of tho boys payday doesn't niean much moro than handling jour envelopo over to the fellows that've loaned you money." "Urn I see," chuckled the lawyer. "You'd rather give your pay envelopo every week to somo other fellow than to give it to friend wifo who might save something out of it for old age." "Aw, come on!" oxclaimed tho young man. "A fellow's got a right to do what ho wants with his own money, mon-ey, hasn't ho? But if he lets his wifo take it all, he's got to cut out all the good times and his independence, too. Geo I And look at women's extra va- gauco. That's what sends men to their early graves. A fellow can't afford to support a wife these days. Tho women wom-en want too much." "And yet," mused the lawyer, "tho most prosperous men of my acquaintance acquaint-ance are married. Most of them tell mo they never saved a cent before they married, and the majority of them who own piopcrty havo made it safe by putting a substantial part of It at least tho homo part in the wife's name." "Aw " skeptically put in the other, "don't you know the reason for that? The fellows arc getting wiSQit ain't safe to own property when they got an automobilo. Every follow that owns an automobile is liable to bo sued for all he's worth if he gets into an accident. acci-dent. So when ho gets his auto he puts his property in his wife's name. That's easy." "Oh, wiso young man!" laughed the lawyer. "There's some sense in what you say. But how do you uccouut for the largo percentago of deeds recorded record-ed every day In the wife's name, where tho deals are for a small home to be paid for in installments and whoro overy cent of tho family's savings sav-ings "will bo utilized to clear the property prop-erty of debt? No automobiles possible in those families until tho homo is paid for, at the best. "No, my young friend. The average man realizes more today than ho ever did before that it's simple good sense to trust his wifo when it comes to the family savings. He knows that a man is open to more tomptations to spend money senselessly than a woman, and that where ho would throw away dollars dol-lars that would bring no value in return, re-turn, sho will count the pennjeB and uso them to bring back double and triple their valuo for tho good of the family. Most of the little homes are bought out of the money the wifo ; saves from her husband's wages, "Beyond this, men are discovering that a wife is really a human being with Bomo rights of her own, and that she earns her sharo of the family i funds Just as certainly as he earns : what he gets from his business. -Housewifely Is her trade, and there Is no : more reason why she should work for ; nothlug than that her husband should i give his services to his employer for nothing but his board and clothes in pay. Moreover, If the husband of to- i day doesn't try to be square the wife of today can hale him into court and compel him to deal fairly with her. Put that In your pipe and smoke it, i young man, next time you feel so I blamed independent." j |