Smyrna times., 1872-05-15
Why Wives are Extravagant.

Somebody once said that ''the women of
to day are 80 extravagant in dress, aud so helm.
less 10 other respects that none but rich men
can afford to marry, and foolish peonle have
been saying the same thing or something like
1t, ever since. Every time a man fails in
business, people take mental inventory of his
wIfeS wardrobe. and cry out, Poor fellow /!
hr wa' ruined by her exiravsgance!
No accounts taken of his club expenses. or
his unnecessary restaurant bills, or his fast
horses, or the vanity that prompted him IN huv
bigger and finer house than he needed.
Nnthlng is said of his dress coats made by some
Monsieur Snip, whn charges extra price
because he calls himself an artist tailor"
The man may have gamhled his money away,
or have lost 1t in reck less stock speculation.
tor all anybody knows TO the contrary, while
his wife, believing him to be rich, has dressed
and lived only as his circumstances warranted.
doing it., too. only for his sake, that he might
not he ashamed to Introduce her as his wife.
Or u she hhd been as extravagant as he, the
fault Is usually his, so long As the fact remains
that any proper man can lovingly control the
course of any proper wife.
omen are often extravagant The fact
cannot he denied. But that they arc more so
than men, Is by no tHeanS true. As a rule
every wife wishes to live within her husbands
income, and in nine families out of ten, all
the econOmizing done at all is done by the
wife.
This constant iteration Of the charge against
women, h"wever, has secured kind OF passive
acceptance Tor the theory, and nothing is more
common now than for young men with salaries
OF two or three thousand a year to lament
their inability to marry, because women are so
extravagant. One of these has recently told
the pubIi3 through the newspaper, how it |
takes all his salary of two thousand dollars 10 |
support single man, aud looking over his |
bills OF items and finding that it takes fifty |
dollars worth Of perfumcry every year to keep
him sweet, we quite agree with him that he
should not marry.
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