Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1874-03-13

without winter hat, because Monsieur 10
Grand thinks it is not best for her to spend
50 much? wonder she can hold up her
head in the presence of her children Ana
do not blame Monsieur lie Grand so very
much either. If one is always bowing
down TO you and asking humbly for things,
you get to feel very grand indeed and quite
as if things belonged to you when you may
be very ordinary individual, and depend
ent on your wife for every comfort you nave
on earth.
Now, do not mean to say that farmers
wives arc the only wives that get their
money by begging, or scolding, or strategy.
think they do without the most resoluteiy
of any class of women | know a great
many, perhaps the majority OF married w9-
men, when circumstances are iavoraoie
have no intelligent care or understanding
of the pecuniary affairs of the family.
know nothing about my husband busl-
ness" is common remark. As if in the
close partnership of interest that maintains
between husband and wife there could DC
business for either party so separate thai
the other might wholly ignore 1t.
MY husband always gives me the mon
ey ask him for" the complacent wife
says, and, as if that were not sufficiently
humiliating, she adds innOcently: lC
be sure am discreet in my asking, ehoos'
the right time and manage matters so thai
be does not think of refusing me.
Well. the time comes, and not rarely IT
this changeful mortal world ofours, that the
dear, innocent, ignorant, managing vile
finds out to her cost that she has been uset
to getting her money in a very foolish way
and that in neglecting her husband : btSI
ness she has neglected her own-that sh'
cannot manage the world which doe
not love her, so certainly and there Is an
other name on the long and pitiable list o
complaining. whining, incompetent anG
uncomfortable women.
And DO mean to say, because belIey,
it TO be true, and this is the opinion oil
some thoughtful. intelligent men who hav'
lived longer in Vermont than |, that thu
people of our rural districts suffer iron
this one sided arrangement of the purse.
think too their management i little mort
one-sided than that of any class know
One thing more while we are talking
about matters Of law and women.
Ii is that the legislative provisions FOL
families in case of the death of the hus
band and father, fall especially hard upon
the widows of farmers, widows with child
ren.
\ family with farm whose value may
be-represented in money by 100000, OIL
even SO eco, and living together upon 1t
are really in better circumstances than one
in the city whose property figures at twice
that amount. | suppose the average Yer
mont farm cannot be rated higher than
$4,000 The owners Of it are sure a;
mortals may DE Of a comfortable living
they may have many Of the good things oil
thi. life and be quite as able 10 crafty re-
fined tastes a. denizens Of the city who art
somewhat richer. They may send then
bows to college, and their girls too, thank
to the wisdom and good sense of our Uni
ycrsity.
Bat if the husband dios-the one il
whom the ownership Of this property l.
vested hy law, and the farm has TO be diyid
e5-9ne-third of farm that cannot be
sold Is not the most desirable property FOL
ANYBODY and the wife and mother finds her.
self at the prime Of life, perhaps, entirely
deprived of twO-third- Of her property
without a home she can call her own. al
the mercy Of her sOn--in-law. If the child
rem are young matters are still worse tht
law works ciumsily. now, like'an agrlcul
tural hoe in a garden Of flowers; it says u
the mother Won cannot do much. and il
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