Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1855-06-24
Tell Your Wife.

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 il will hurt
her feelings. No it won't do any such thiog. She
has been taught to belieAe that money was with
you just little boys think it is with their father
terrible hard to be reached but inexhaustible She
has had her suspicious already. She has guessed
| you 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 living outside of your in
come. Take her into partnership, and I'll warrant
you'll never regretit. There may be slight show
er 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 eight dollar bonnet last winter,
but sit is just as good ever; few shillings will
provide it with new strings and ret it little the
shape" she says, "s almost exactly as they wear
them now" And you will be surprised to see
how much less expense 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 new as
vest, and scarcely costing dollar where you had
allowed five. e =
Old cravats will experience resurrection in her
hands, coming out so rejuvenated, that nobody but
those who are let into the secret would suspect
that they were old friends in new shapes The
gown you were going to buy-out what forgotten
chest she has gathered the materials, you can't i'm
agne-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. -sss1.e
You will find wonderful change in her tastes
and appetites. Whereas, she always faucied what
was little out of season, or just coming into mar
ket-now, if beef is dear, she thinks "boiled nut
ton is delghtfnl--as tender as chicken" II 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 the musical celebrities she is "out Of
oil patience with these foreign singers"
If Jenny Lind were to return and sing some of
our own sweet airs she'd likd to hear her; but she
has had enough of Italian extravagances, all writ
ten the ledger line 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 domes-
tic enjoyment and freside pleasures, that you will
look with wonder on the record of last years ex-
penses, and marvel that you found time or relish
for the costly entertainments that so seriously tax
ed your port-monnaie, -
My dear friend, IT. like Spain, your outgoes
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 coun-
seller in the day Of your trouble. If she does not
come up, heart and soul, and most successfully to
your relief, put us down for no prophet, and her
for no worthy specimen Of Yankee lass-[N. Y.
Times.