Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1853-01-19
Ask Your Wife.

The following is the best sermon we have heard
preached from the old text CPL ask my wife, for
some time. We commend it to those who have
wives, and those who have not we would advise to
get one apiece, so that they can ascertain if all
which is said below is true.
TELL YOUR W1FE.-Yes, 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 it will hurt her feelings. No it won't
do any such thing. She has been taught to be-
lieve that money was with you, just as little boys
think it is with their Enthusiastically hard to be
reached yet inexhaustible. She has had 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 to her. that you living outside of your in
come. Take her into partnership, and I'll war
rant you'll never regret it. There may be slight
shower at first, but that's natural. Let her see
your estimate, and when you come 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 ever; few shilings will
provide it with new strings, and reft it little
the ,shape,'' she says sis almost exactly as they
wear tutlil. Auu you WILL UC SUI PllStu " sec
how much less expensive she makes 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 new
as vest and scarcely costing dollar where you
had allowed five. Old cravats will experience
resurrection in her hands, coming out SO rejuve
mated that nobody but those who are let into the
that friou uGsJ
new shapes. That gown you were going to buy
out of what forgotten chest she has gathered the
materials you cannot imagine-butt there it is, COM
Portable and warm; and just the thing wanted the
long winter evenings that are coming on as fast
as the almanac will let them. You will find a
wonderful change in her tastes and appetites.-
Whereas, she always fancied what was little
oat of season or just coming into market-now, if
beef is dear, she thinks 'sboiled mutton is excel
| lent-as tender as chicken If lamb rises and
fish is plenty, she thinks "striped bass is SO good,
occasionally always insist ON having it on Fri
days. Whereas, before, she must hear all the
musical celebrities-now she is out of all patience
with these foreign singers. If Jenny Lind were
| to return and sing some of her own sweet airs,
she'd like to hear her, but she has had enough of
Italian Extravaganzas, all written on the ledger
lines above or below, as if it were sin to tarry
! long the common staff.
Before you have thought much about ityou will
find yourself spending most of your evenings at
home, and such evenings too !! full of domestic
enjoyment and ireside pleasures, that you will
/ look with wonder on the record Of the years ex-
penses and marvel that you found time relish
for the costly entertainments that seriously tax
/ ed your porte-monnaie.
My dear friend, if, like Spain, your out-goes
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 if you wanted coun-
sellor in the day of your trouble. And if she
does not come up, heart and soul, and most sue
cessfuly to your relief, put me down for proph-
ct, and her for no worthy specimen of Yankee
lass.-N. Y. Times.
4 THE GRAvE.-What resting place for the