Sharp County record., 1880-06-24
TgE WFE'S WAGES.

TEE WIFE'S NAGEs'
!. W., Nettie, what do you wantP"
Eid MI, Jarvis to his wife, who stood
4oIinr |,1I no rather anxiously at him after ne
!, ID U1 1, naid the factory hands their week S
4.sWir lasN vi Donald" she said, 81 thought
Il had worked for you all the week,
IwonN nd come for my wages, too! 4ou
hv Jane two dollars a week, surely l
atTn thai, and l would like very much
| have it as my own"
3"psbaw, Nettie, how ridiculously you
hi You know that all l have be-
Ings to you and the children-and don t t
fRnrnish the house and everything?
That under the sun would you DO with
toney Ii you had it"'
3"I know, Donald, that you buy the
kcessaries for us all, and | am willing
! at YOU should do so still, but | should
tSe a little money of my very own. we
hive been married fifteen years, and in
| that time | do not seem to have
lbrned dollar. As far as money is
Incerned | might as well be a slave,
lcannot buy a quart of berries, nor a
i,ok, without asking you for the mon
and | should like to be little more
dependent"
fMr. Jarvis, proprietor of Jarvis Mills,
birth hundreds Of thousands of dollars,
Faghed derisiyely.
p"You're fine one to talk Of inde.
tndence," he said. "If you should
et out to make your own living you'd
5ch up in the poorhouse soon e9ough,
/ what could you do to earn a fving?
le girls in the factory know how to
their work, and they earn their
7iges. When l have paid them my
fty is done; but I have to board and
1.-THE you, and take care of you when
du are sick. If / had to do that for the
Dis they would have precious little
t,ney left, l can tell you"
h 1" Donald, l gave up a good trade
3flen I married you. For five years |
I'D supported myself by it, and many a
ne since have l envied myself the
trse Of those days. As for my not
lEning anything, now l leave it to you
llF Fsay whether it would be possible to
e another to take my place; and how
7inch do you suppose it would cost you
lido without me a year? [ know the
llds have but little left after paying
rAsir expenses, but they enjoy that lit
u 50 much Allie Wilson supports
,$rself and her mother with her wages,
Nd they both dress better than | do.
yiInnie Hart is helping her father pay
d the mortgage on his farm, and she
hbso happy that she can do so. Even
al 4ne, the kitchen-girl has more freedom
W |, for out of her own money she is
E flng by presents for her relatives,
eiN Will send them Christmas, as much
id her own pleasure as theirs. Yester-
Rty an indian woman was at the house
dth such handsome bead-work to sell,
"a, although wanted some money SO
Ilch, ! had not dollar l felt like
e ing when Jane brought in her weeks S
ges and bought half a dozen articles
nj 'anted so much. You often say that
sE you have is mine, but five dollars
ii uld have given me more pleasure
rItterday than your hundreds of thou
b1 ldS Of dollars worth of property did"
Of No doubt of that, Mrs. Jarvis.
a 2 have no idea of the value of money,
yi !, would have enjoyed buying a lot Of
nd "a trash that wouldn't be worth a
ITO anybody. Jane needs a guard
,rd II she fools away her money like
zet'::s ohe will be in the county house
d II she don't look out. It's lucky
lktEt men DO hold the money, for there's 5
i one woman in a hundred who knows
ID FOR shame, Donald Jarvisy You
w better! Look at Jerry and Millv
VIII you, and say that he makes
,,t pest nSe of his money. She is at
n1| DnI M pe With her parents every night,
!, 7, !. A'ng Der wages 60 as far as possible
tai ~ u arG making them comfortable, while
lJIs drhking and carousino in tho
sa ~ sge' Wasting his time and MONEY
.It TX making brute of himself besides
~ l%i ! why does Mrs. Sarton come TO o re.
p %,s r., ner husbands wages herself:
ttdIp,y : 4 lpT because he cannot pet by the
isr, %n S;s with money in his pocket, and i if
a'-' u qld an not get the money thew would Won d
10 a. ~ hungry to bed the day after his
~ ~ IT, es are paid. And 1 believe that m
..Dr aa5 \. woman Y who earns money here
StS,us S1os, ss y as wisely as the AVERAGE 'l of
9lT%, y !, and have yet to hear @e Of one of Of
III 4 beng in debt" ''i VI one oi
asr ,s,s ,;'.i yiS knew that he could not
pliI'Ss III Sssa word % his wife had said, for for
N' ane' "see all true, Luckily he thought sbt
md wen , how much do YOU ,,nrose
BIZ b y, yl1 |. have left When IN New SvpPese Yess
- y She should gel sick how low