Show connubial rin finances ances the small financial affairs between huband and wife present many curious phases of connubial life the woman who possessed the historic quarter of a dollar of whose expenditure she was always called to account long since died wives are the most exacting ot of money lenders thelmi the terest on their loans outclasses outclassed out classes that of any usurer known and the 1 with which they exact payment exceeds any method known to the law every woman up to date has her allowance or money in gross sums these are bernab liers absolutely sol as if she had brul earned them out of theae these she can practice economies and thus lay by or she Is in a position to lend money to her husband when this is the case she invariably has the best of it it is the most difficult thing to remember money spent in car fare and stamps iut but the tenacity of a womans comans memory to retain the trifling sums she lends her husband and the expertness of her addi addition tiou biem to show allow that she only lacks the op port unities of modern finance when a woman overdraws her allowance or borrows from her husband small sum bets he ie bauo by means so clever in his bookkeeping there is a great deal of petty swindling of which the law knows nothing and in any case Is covered by tha thi co connubial fiction of two in one some wom women e adjust their accounts and make their economies by means of their bl bills I 1 IS R the 3 in most os t generous of men who never falters w when hen present presented edwith with one of his cifes bills probably never saw an absolutely correct bill made out in hernane her ber name which is always less or greater than the trad tradesman esmanis Is aware A bill she conceives Is too extravagant masquerades at a lesser sum the over amount bhe makes up on innocent smaller bills san francisco argonaut |