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Show d n WHEN THE WOM33N PAY THE RENT. CUE great war has had many consequences, con-sequences, most of them oyll, but according to some of the landlords of England It has had one good effect, at least. Tho landlords land-lords say that never were their routs paid so promptly as now; never were tenants so satisfactory. "Why? Because Be-cause tho women arc handling tho money. The wives of tho soldiers, that is, and of thoso other men who are connected in various ways with tho conflict, Tho Government turns over a part of the soldiers' pay to tho wives they havo left behind them and these ladles, true to tho Impulses of their sox, pay tho rent on tho dot, for contrary con-trary to tho general Idea women loatho' and fear debt. They havo no confidence in futures; they aro not naturally optimistic whoro money Js concerned, and so they pay their bills as soon as they havo the cash. Women of the great mlddlo class hesltato to contract a debt unless they literally have tho monoy in hand to pay it. It is tho very rich woman and tho very poor woman who have given the sex a roputation for carelessness care-lessness in money affairs; tho very rich woman because she docs not caro particularly whether she pays or not; tho very poor one because sho has not the wherewithal with which to settlo up. At all ovents somo of the landlords of England declare that tho war has served them a good turn in that It has made tho wives of tho soldiers the rent payers instead of tho casual soldiers sol-diers themselves. |