Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1885-03-19

everything you wanted. Lot me KEEP
your money for a week and then SEE
whether you do not think an allowance
would be better plan"
"All right, it's bargain" said MIR
Grant. after q moments hesitation
emptying his pockets of all their loose
change and throwing hispocketbook on
the table.
"Now, want II cents for car-fare
and, well, say a quarter for lunch"
"Here 1t is" answered Mrs. Grant,
counting out .thirty-sever cents and
gathering up the rest.
Mrs. Grants thoughts wandered TO
her husband many a time that day, and
she wondered how he liked the sensa-
ton of being almost penniless. AS for
herself she felt rich in having so much
money in her possession, and ventured
to make two or three little purchases
that she had wanted to make for long
time, but had put off because she dis.
liked asking for the necessary money.
At least a dozen times that morning
Mr. Grants hand found its way to his
pocket before he remembered that he
bad only the exact change for his lunch
and his car-fare. At noon, when he
went out for lunch no met an old friend,
and nothing but the consciousness of
his empty pockets kept him from invit-
ing him to lunch with him. Then for
the first time he realized that it might
possibly be trial to Eva never to be
able to extend invitations to her friends.
De was not prepared to admit the in
convenience of empty pockets when he
went home that evening, though.
81 got along first rate" he said in
answer to his wife's question, "but III
ask you to give me little more money
this evening""
What forP" demanded Eva, serene.
'"For 'sundries, 4" laughed Mr.. Grant.
Cigars, ct cetera; half a dollar will
do"
81 don't see what you want cigars
for" answered Eva, calmly. 81 guess
you can got along without them if you
try. Half the wants in the world are
merely imaginary ones"
mir. Grants face flushed;' he recog-
nized the words as his own. He would
not ask again for any more money, but |
settled himself with his paper in moody |
silence, wishing that he had possession |
of his pocketbook again. The first day |
1t had seemed more like joke than |
anything else to start off for the day |
with barely sufficient for his most nee
essary expenses, but the next day it |
was decidedly disagreeable to know
that he had not single cent over the !
fer his lunch and car-fare.
''If Eva feels this way all the time l |
don't wonder at her wanting an allow
ance of her own" he said to himself as
he rode homeward.
One day more convinced him thor
oughly that it was annoying as well as
to be obliged TO present a
petition for every small sum, and when
he went home that evening he confess
ed that he had learned by experience
how inconvenient an empty purse is,
and admitted that a regular allowance
was no more than was justly due his
wife. He set aside a certain portion of
his income for Eva's use for the house.
hold expenses and an additional amount
for her own per sonal use, and after this
she never put of some necessary pur-
chase for weeks because she had TO ask
for the money.
II learned lesson that l never for
got in those three DAYS." MIR. Grant
often tells his friends when they are
arguing against making regular allow
ances TO their wives.