The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1852-12-25
Tell your Wife.

les, the only way is to tell your wife just how
You stand Show her your balance sheet. Let
her look over the items. You think ii will hurt
her feelings. No, it wont do any such thing
She has been taught to believe that money was
win you Just as little boys think it is with their
iathers-terrlbly hard to be reached, but mex
naustible She has her suspicious already
ohe mas guessed you We're not so prosperous as
you talked. But you have so befogeed YOUR
money affairs that she. poor thing. knows moth.
ing about them. Tell it right out to her that
you are living outside Of your income. Take
her into partnership, and III warrant you will
never regret it. There may be slight shower
at first, but that's natural. Let her see your
estimate, and when you come home again she
will show you that you have put her bills too
high. True, she had an eighteen dollar bonnet
last winter, but it's just as good as ever /; q
few shillings will provide it with new strings.
and reft it little; the shape" she says, "is
almost exactly as they wear them now" And
you will be surprised to see how much less ex-
pensive she can make your own wardrobe
She will surprise You with a new vest-not ex-
actiy unfamiliar some how, looking as if in an
other shape you had seen it beforc-yet new as
vest, and scarcely costing dollar, where
you had allowed five. Old cravats will experi-
ence resurrection in her hands, coming out so
rejuvenated that nobody but those that ore let
into the secret would suspect that they are old
friends in new shapes. The gown you were go
ing to buy-out of what forgotten chest she has
gathered the materials you cannot imagine
but there it is comfortable and warm. and just
the thing you wanted for the long winter even
ings that are coming on as fast as the almanac
will let them.
iou will find q wonderful change in her
tastes and appetites. Whereas she always fam
cied what was a little out of season or lust COM
ing into market, now, if beef is dear she thinks
"boiled mutton is sdelightful as tender as chick
en- If lamb rises, and fish are plenty. she
thinks a striped bass is SO good occasionally, !"
and always. insists on having it Fridays
Whereas, before, she must hear all those musi-
cal celebrities-now she is "out of all patience
with these foreign singers" If Jenny Lind
we're to return aud sing some of our own sweet
airs. she'd like to hear her; but she has had
enough OF Italian extravagance, all written on
the leger lines below or above, as if it were a
sin to tarry long on the common staff.
Before you have thought much about it yon
will find yourself spending most of your even
ings at home, and such evenings too-so full of
domestic enjoyment and freside pleasures. that
you will look with wonder on the record of last
years expenses, and marvel that you found
time or relish for the costly entertainments
that so seriously taxed your port monnaie
My dear friend, if like Spain, your outgoes
threaten to exceed your incomes, be sure and
tell your wife of it. Not in tone and manner
that will lead her to think you don't want her
to buy furs this winter, but just as if you want
ed counsellor in the day Of your trouble
And if she does not come up, heart and soul.
and most successfully to your relief put me
down for no prophet, and her for no worthy
specimen of a Yankee lass.-yN: Y. Times.