The Pascagoula democrat-star., 1886-10-15
MONEY.
The Golden EAaaR in Money EEan-
agSment.

agament.
We should be particular about
money matters, says a writer in the
Queen, but not penuriOus. The pen
NY soul never, it is said, came in
two pence. There is that withhold
eth more than is meet, but it tend
eth to poverty. People are often
saving at the wrong place, and spoil
the ship for half penny worth of
tar. They spare AT the spigOt and
let it ali runaway at the bGn2h0le.
The mistress of IA well.Ordered
home takes a broad and liberal
view of thugs. While cutting her
coat according to her cloth, and aS
much as possible shielding her rus
baud from the constant demand tor
money, which few masculine temp,
ers ca stand, she retrainS from
the wrarNiu2 petty economies which
often enough are not worth the
trouble aud discomfort they entail.
Ten valuable minutes may be vast
ed in untying knot to save Il piece
of string not worth the SiXlipth
part of Il iarihlng, TO say nothing
of the iujRry to nails anIi temper.
Those Who are in this way peunN
wise are very often pOunf foolish.
she is the wise wife that can
steer between pennriouSneSs aud
recklesSnp; S. Ii IS the fear of tue
latter, and especially of extrava-
gance in reference to dress, that
confirms many men in bachel0rship.
A society paper tells us that, at
recent dance gwen at West End. a
married lady of extravagant habits
impertinently asked wealthy old
bachelor ii he remained single be
cause he could not afford to keep a
wife. "iy innocent young friend"
was the reply, 81 could afford to
keep three; but Pm not rich enough
to pay the milliners bulls OF one"
Aud yet domestic economy is a
woman's province, and a cOnsclen-
tious wife takes pride in learning
and practicIng it. She does not
think that all is gain which can De
got from n husband, for she knows
that the state OF bis purse is
matter Of consequence To both.
But a wife who does put cOnsci-
euce into the management of her
husbands money should not be
obliged to account to him for the
exact manner in which she lays out
each penny in the pound. An undue
OH his part will cause
much domestic irritation, and may
have bad influence on social
morals. A wife has many trlhing
demands on purse which a hus-
band need not investigate, and
which, il he did, be would hardly
understand. Let him regulate the
maximum OF expenditure by giving
to her a certain sum of money. 1t
she be prudeut--if his table be
kept aud his household
with economy aud regu
larity-he should leave minute tie
tails to her. No one can teel digui.
fed, free aud happy without the
control of a certain amount OF
money for The graces, the elegant
aud above all for the
charities OF lite. The hard drawn
line of simply paying the bills closes
a thousand avenues to gentle Joy
and pleasures in a wOman's daily
life. An arrangement for the main-
tenance OF the household should
be amicsbly and justly made be-
tween the wife who possesses an
income and the husband who earns
one. The greater responsibility
which the law now gives TO a
moneyed wife should make her not
less but more careful in her ex-
penditure. But the wives who have
no money Of their own are a larger
class, and these we advise to strike
while the iron is hot, so to speak,
by getting their husbands, before
the ard0r OF their honeymoon eools,
to give them au annual allowance.
The little unavoidable demands on
q husbands purse, to which q wife