, 1873-10-12

style Of living" Here ho giyoa himsolf little
shake, md, looking down at Ills bootH, staups
first ono foot md then tho other. It's going
to bo close sailing for everybody" Hero ho
dives simultaneously with a hand In either ado
pocket, md fshoB up pair Of gloves. "Monoy
Ia worry tight now, aud will be tightor." And,
with this parting remark, ho claps on his hat
with ono hand, and opona and bangs tho out
side door behind him with tho other.
Now, thoro aro three things which a woman
believes simply because sho hears thom con-
stantly reiterated by the head Of tue household,
viz: that money ls tight; that businoBa is dull !;
and that there is nothing In the newspaper, It
ia only when tho husband and father Announces
TINT tho ti1noB nre hard, with his face Hcrowcd
ur as it ho Ind his mouth full Of alum, TINT his
feminine dependents underatnnl ho intends to
be believed. At other timca they know 1t IL q
cry Of Wotfl Wolf! when thero is no wolf.
When the wife realizos the situation, hor first
act IL q
gEAnon1Na FOR LEAKs.
She bogfns by reviewing tho butchers bill.
Bhe feels sinking Of tho hoars at Tho Hum-total,
and finds it necessary to fortify herself with the
reflection that all those steaks, and
dored for hcr individual consumplion,- though
1t ustbe confessed that tho husband Hometinea,
In chronic monetary spasms, speaks 80 If thoy
we're. Yet it is m acknowledged fact that, when
two or three women keep old maids hall, and
on the subject Of the table that they will hardly
take tho timo to cook dinner, and faro princi-
paliy Oh those masculine denominations, tea and
toast. On the contrary, is see1na to be q stand
consorts cannot succeed In ordering and obtains
ing from tile butchers roasta which shall DO ali
touderloin, mutton which is otornally lalnb, and
chickens which consist only Of broasta, socond-
joints, and liyors.
Tho young housekeepor sits with the bills In
her lap, and ono might imagine her fondly ro-
reading thoso ardent loyo-lettera whose
iisao Increasing numbers, na, bulky dimon-
opIy year OR so agono, tho delight OF her s
heart. but her expression is more ,peEsivo and
wistful than eynn that Of Evangoliuo i'll tile
ubiquitous picture. Trs1c, Evangelino lost her
lover, which furnished her good cause for re-
grct; but there ato sometimes WORSE things thnn
losing lover; marrying him, for instance, aud
finding him {. tloluBion aud q snare.
It is all very we'll" ruminates the porplexod
minister Of domestic finances, "for oil tho pon-
ny-a-!iners to be constantly dlnning in my oars
how 1 can use up tho odds and onds OF food in
connecting sayory soups, delicious lunches, aud
appetziug ontroos: but what il my husband,
with good-humored tolerance Of feminine indi-
gestion, leaves what he calla NIL thoso French
Riokshawa' to mo, md gently hints tint good
plain ronek, and two or three varieties Of vcgota-
bles, and q rice-pudltng, or an o-dumpling,
buch as his mother used to make, will
imply satisfy his Simple wantn2 Isn't it about
falling women how to cook economically, and be-
gan telling mon how to cat economenllyS"
" THE LITTLE FoXES THAT SPOIL THE yINEB "
tre tue tris!ing expenditures that never aro ret
economy practiced in his fa1niy had hotter Bow
up the vest-poclset where ho keeps bis smau
change. Ho starts in tho morning for down.
town on tho strcot-cars. The morning paper is
ono to rend during tho rae. The ovoning-pnpor
Is left ut tho Office also but lie often loaves be-
foro ita delivery, so he buys oto Oil tho stroot.
Ilo must road tic Sunday paper, Of courao. Re-
suit it, year, $433.90. Yot the man who finds
to- to ia be- discovered. @ Tho averso, @ S Which, fo s
wol-regnlatod masculine mind has to tho
carrying Of lunel-baskets Or boxes ia
not to be expressed in words. It is good deal
sonnet Something III to- to oat." The "littlo Something M
gonerplly costs so cents. 1T is botter for a
writer to he moderate in computations when
thcro is constitutional inability 70 deal with fg-
ures, and profound ignorance Of the subject
e156.5o. Tlleu comes tho irreproBsiblo tobacco
question. No lover Of domestic tranquility over
islts man to givo up smoking. Tho woe is
flat ho ever commenced. It is tho shreking
divorce, who demands that men shall cease to
Sho has laid her plans for cajoling her
husband into buying her q new
yet Of fnrs, it sho won't use her
influence to stop bis smoking. Ask tho woman
Eho is cudgeling hor brains, about Christmas
limo, to think Of IN present for a gentleman"
Il she would rather the intended recipient Of her
gift would not smoke, and watch tho diemay in
rigar was as much one Of hiB facnl ador1nnlonts
as his flowing sido-wl,ishers or Lis sicl1y mus
taeho, waH tho ungratoful reclpieut OF five
amoking-stande. "Ana not single euspilore
Ruitors have giyon him as proofs Of their attacii-
mont, Ind he not boen devoteo OF tho weed
Yet, after ALL 1t iB painfnl fact tint oyon thrae
cigars daily cost s91.25; and that, while 1t ia
DO persuaded to give up their fayorito luxury
aud pay tho national dobt, many man finds It
bard to pay his own aebts, lot alone tho nations.
Here, then, ia s281.G5 which wouldn't hayo beeu
epcnt II tic man had lot lis vito BOW up lbs
vest-pockot. When it is remembered, In addi-
ton, low often man accepts al Invitation to
drop n aud hayo game Of billiards; and ia do
tanned downtown and SO "just looks III for n
minute at tho Theatre" and pays a bot for a now
buys tickets to festivals, and amntour concorts,
and churcll-fairs,- all "becauBo," to ugo his
own onig1natical woras, "he may want somo-
thing himself Romo Of those days;" and pnr-
cheses worthless bools from ,porsistent TO-
It is uafe to say that $500 lias gone,-it passeth
tho memory Of man to say whoro. As for tho
menory OF woman, Bhe cannot 10 expected to
remember what Eho neither know nor suspected.
Whom the idol Of hor hoart comes homo at night
and hands her bulky, volume entitled " Honso-
Aeopng Mado Easy" or "Ono-Thousand.a and
One Economical 1locoipta,'' with tho conrlso ro-
mark, "a woman brought that iu tic office to-
day, and bought ono for YOU" sho gratefully
accepts 1t, with tlo happy consciousness that her
imago comes before her lord oyon in his busiest
tno1nouta amid Tho din of husineHa. SAo roalixos
i (as ahe almost diBocatos hor shoulders slowing
the worthless book out Of tho way on the top shelf
OF tho cloaot, TINT ga, moro or loss, has hoe,l
wasted, and that aho mnat give up tho hope OF Il
second ostroll'plun'o, OH har lat. "Dut 'lo
thought II would pleaso mo-" sho roasonu.
(Alas! II sho coull only layo soon TINT irropros-
ail,o female agent wllo cleared TINT Office 10
auicklY Of nil movable mascullnoH, aud wan no
cxpeditlously directed from ono stationary int!i-
yidual to anothor!) "Besidca," eontin,ios tho
wife to loraosf. "a man worls hard for his
money, and it loes aeem nR II ho might Bpoll It
Ia he plaaHaI, Ihnn hn6idna mnn aro nlnn md