The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1855-05-30
Tell Your Wife.


how You stand Show her your balance
sheet. Let her look over the items. You
Ihiuk it will hurt her feelings. No it won't
DO any such thing. She has been taught to
believe that money was with you just as
little hogs think il is with their fathers-Ier
ribly hard to be reached, yet inexhausiibls.
She has had her suspicious already. She
has guessed you were not so prosperous as
on 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
como. Take her into partnership, and I'll
warrant you'll never regret it. There may
be a slight shower at first, but that is 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 it il just as good as ever; a few shillings
will provide it with new strings, and reft it
a little;-the shape she says is almost exact
" as they wear now. And you will be sur
pfised TO see bow much less expensive she
can make your own wardrobe. She will
surprise you with a new yest-not exactly
unfamiliar somehow, looking as If in anoth-
er shape you had seen it befOre,-yet new
as a vest, scarcely costing a dollar where
you had allowed i've. Old cravats will x
p%eriencc a resurrection in her hands, CON-
ing our 50 rrjuvenated that nobody butthose
. who are let into the secret, would suspect
that they a.e old friends in new shapes
The gown you were going to buy-ou o!
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 evenings,
that are coming on as fast as the almana
will LIT them.
You will find a wonderful change in hel
: tastes and appeti;es. Whereas she always
t fancied what was q little out of season, Oh
3 just coming into market-now il beef is deal
a she thinks ''boiled mutton is delightful
as tender as CHICKEN" Iflamb rises, ant
S fsh are plenty, she thinks "a striped bas'
is so goo4, occasionally" and always insists
on having il Fridays-whereas before, sh,
$ must hear all the musical celebrities, now
} she she Is "out Of all patience with those
= E 4A -.
+ foreign tingers."--If Jenny Lind were t.
return to sing some of her sweet airs she't
a tiko to hear herr but she has had enough 0
: Italial e~xtravagancier, all written on tn,
: ledger lines below or above, as if it were
s sin to tarry long on the common staff.
e Before you have thought much about
: you viii find yourselves spending most c
the evenings at home, and such evening
n so full of domestic enjoyments, and fresid
l. pleasures, that you viii look on the recor
d of last years expenses, and marvel tina
ar tertainments that so seriously taxed you
port-monsie.
My dear friend, If ike Spain. your OF
in goes threaten to exceed your incomes, b
Ne sure and tell your wife of it. Not in a ton
g. and manner that will lead her to think 20
Of don't want her TO buy furs this winter, b,
he Just as if you wanted a counsellor in Il
er day Of your trouble. And if she does N
t. come up. heart and soul, and most success.
he fully TO yonr relief, put me down no propl
OF ct, and no worthy specimen Of a Yankee!