Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-01-07
TELL YOUR WIFE.

Yes, the only way is to tell your wife
just how you stand. Show her your bal
ance sheet Let her look over the items.
You think it viii hurt her feelings. No, it
won't do any such thing. She has been
taught that money is with you, just as
little boys think it is with their fathers,
hard to be reached, yet inexhaustible. She
has had her suspicious already. She has
guessed you were not so prosperous as you
talked. But you have SO befogged your
money affairs that she, poor thing, knows
nothing about them. Tell it right out to
her, that you are living outside of your in
come. Take her into partnership, and I'll
warrant you'll never regret it. There may
be slight shower at first, but that's natu-
raj. 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 eight-dollar bonnet last winter, but sit
is just as good as ever; few shillings will
provide it with new strings, and refit it
little the shape" she says, sis almost
exactly as they wear them now"
And you will be surprised to see how
much less expensive she can make your
own wardrobe. She will surprise you with
new vest-not exactly unfamiliar some
how, looking as if in another shape you had
seen it before-yet as new vest, and scarce
ly costing dollar where you had allowed
FIVE. Old cravats will experience resur-
rection in her hands, coming but so rejuve-
mated that nobody, but those that are let
into the secret, would suspect that they are
old friends in new shapes. The gown you
were going to buy-out Of what forgotten
chest she has gathered the materials you
cannot immagine-but there it is, comforta-
BILE and warm, and just the thing you wanted
for the long winter evenings that are COM
ing on as fast as the almanac will let them.
You will find wonderful change in her
tastes and appetites. Whereas, she fancied
what was little out of season or just COM
ing into market-now if beef is dear, she
thinks "boiled mutton is delightful, AS
tender as chicken" Iflamb rises, and fish
are plenty, she thinks ga striped bass is so
good, occasionally" and always insists on
having it Fridays. Whereas, before she
must hear all the musical celebrities
she is ''out of all patience with these for
eign singers. If Jenny Lind were to return
and sing some Of our own sweet airs, she'd
like to hear her; but she has had enough
Of Italian extraegances, all written on the
leger lines below or above, as if it were
sin to tarry long on the common staff.
Before you have thought much about it
you will find yourself spending most of your
evenings at home, and such evenings too
so full of domestic enjoyment and 6reside
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 Spais, your out
goes threaten to exceed your income, 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 wanted counsellor in the
day Of your trouble. And if she does not
come up, heart and soul, and most success
fully to your relief, put me down for no
prophet, and her for no specimen of Yam
kee lass-N. Y. Times.
D9n It has been discovered that where a
lot of boarders are fed for some time on
sausages exclusively, they begin to growl.
MARRIED.
On Thursday, the 9th instant, by the Rev. Smith
Pyne, c. G. BAYLOR, esq, q. 8. Consul at Amster-
dam, to LOUISA d. eldest daughter of the late Com
mander Wa3sworth.
On the 9Th instant, by the Rev. c. NJ. Butler, Mr..
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