Milford chronicle., 1883-11-23
HUSBANDS AND WIVES.

Incidence, allow their wives to manag
at home as they please. But the hus
band who thinks that his wife has tn
same right to manage her household af
fairs that he has to manage his bust
ness, is very rare man. Some men arr
good-natured about it, and besides they
may think they fare better when they
recognize the wife's Independent respon
sibility. Such husbands usually pride
themselves upon their amiability. You
will hear them say;
81 let her manage pretty much as she
pleases."
To show how that sounds, reverse it.
The husband is a builder of houses.
The wife says, with gracious conde-
scension:
"Oh, I let him manage pretty much
as he pleases."
Two men engage in the grocery bust
ness. One sells, the other buys, de-
livers and collects. One does the inside,
the other does the outside work. This
is a common division Of labor. Now
imagine one of these men to say:
81 manage the outside to suit my
self, but I let my partner manage the
inside pretty much as he pleases." If
the partner happen to be a man Of spirit,
and hears this remark, he will probably
make short work of his cOmDaniOn's i'm
pudence.
If one Of the grocery men were heard
pleading with his partner
"Please let me have five dollars, I
promise you I will spend it prudently,"
-he listener would exclaim
"What does it mean? [ thought they /
we're partners; but I see they are master
md slave, or at the very least employer
md small boy"
In human life there are few scenes so
rying as wife begging for money. She
) perhaps educated and refined, her
usband perchance coarse and tobacco
oaked. But he does the outside work,
the collecting, and she does
he inside work. If you have the heart,
sten.
"John, dear, I hate to speak to you
bout it, but I have put it off till can't
ut it off any longer"
"Well, what is it now? Come, out
it'll it p
'John, dear, don't look so cross, it
ightens me.
"What are you up to this time?
'me more gimcracks ?"
"No, my dear, I must have a pair of {
oes. I took dreadful cold yesterday
ON getting my feet wet. l
"Well, how much is it ? Five hun v
ed dollars ?" l
81 can get a pair for three dollars.
"What do you get such miserable p
lsh for? The soles are nothing but \
per" II
eff you are willing, John, I can get a
lendid pair for six dollars, and they +,
3 great deal easier. h
'Wel, there is $2.9O; make him throw Is
the ten cents. II
This is faithful report of an actual
lversation. It is more exasperating =,
IN the violence of drunken brute. n.
Talk of economy The men Of o.
lerica waste more money on tobacco NJ
drink in one day than our women
ste on all their appetites in a year.
few women spend a good deal on ", w
IS; but outside limited class, wo- - -
n spend less, even on dress, than 10 ~,
n. u
. great many wives are treated so like
dren that they have children's no.
is about money. They have no idea u
is value. But let the husband fully Ii
lain his financial condition to his th'
e then let him place his money in on
aver, and give her duplicate key, oil
ng her, with convincing sincerity.
all his spare cash will be placed
e in other words, let him take her on
full and loving confidence, and he eye
be astonished and touched by her doc
stalking economy gre
e are told that thousands of men are Au
ed by the extravaganza of their tue
S. If we could know the number of 4
who suffer from the extravaganza of
'ives whom they have taken into mis-
full confidence, I am satisfied it Am
d turn out to be smaller than the and
Der of men killed by lightning. The NAL
lceivable stupidity with which men the
age in this business is one of the Bot
els Of pig headedness.-Dio Lea0is's I
tbly. Ion.
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