The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-04
WOMEN AND MONEY.
One Branch of the Higher Education Which
Is Given Only to Men.

| One Branch of the Higher Education Which
Is Given Only to Men.
| Mrs. Muloch- Craik in Harper's Bazaar.
know that / shall excite the wrath or con
tempt Of the devotees of the higher education OF
women when say that it is not necessary fol
every woman to be an accomplished musician
an art student, thoroughly educated Girtor
girl: but 1t is necessary that she should be q
woman of business. From the day when hel
baby fingers begin to handle pence and shllings
and her infant mId is reused to laudable am
bition by the possession of the enormous income
OF shreepence week, she ought to be taught the
true value and wise expenditure OF money; to
keep accounts and balance them; to repay the
mlnutest debt or, still better to avoid mourning
1T to observe the just proportions of having
and spending, and, above all, the golden rule for
every one of us, whether our income be sixpence
week or twenty thousand year-waste
nothing.
May not the growing disn clination of our
young men to marriage arise partly from their
dread, nay, conviction-alas! too rrue-that 80
few of our young women have been thus edu-
Gated, and that, so far from being helpmeet to
the man they marry, they are an expense, a
hindrance, continual burden! Without wish
ing to defend the selfish young bachelor. who
waits till he is lin position to marry"-which
means till he has had enough of the pleasures of
freedom, and finds them begin to pall--I often
see with pity young fellow who has never had
occasion to think of anybody but himself and
u. experience
the endless self-sacrifces demanded of pater
familias-good for him, do doubt, but none
the less painful Often, when going
out of London, about 8 A. NJ,
have confronted the trains full of busy, anxious
looking men hurrying into London and have
said to myself, II wonder how many of these
poor hard worked fellows have wives or sisters
or daughters who really help them, take the
weight of life little off their shoulders, expend
their substance wisely, keep from them domestic
worries, and, above all, take care of the money!
But for my wife l should have been in the
work house" is the secret consciousness of many
man: and 1T is a curious fact that while many
woman makes the best of not too estimable
husband, no power on earth can save man who
has got an unworthy, or even foolish wife. He
cannot raise her, and he himself will gradually
Lower to her level day by day,
what is rne within him growing coarse to sympathize
with cay,,.'
Or even if she means WELL but is by nature or
education what | may term an incapable
woman he finds himself saddled with not only
his own share of the life burden, but hers The
more generous and svnuer hearted he is: the
more ne is made victim, both to her and his
children, till he sinks into the mere bread villas
c. the family, who has his work to do, and does
it, through PRIDE duty, love, or com.
bfna,,,. OF all three. nsns,,,,y v,ruont a
Word of complaint-does it till he drops.
hien have q great deal of error to
answer for, but the silent endurance of many
middle-aeed 'family men," to whom-often,
alas! through the wife's fault--domestc life has
been made burden rather than blessing,
ought to be chronicled by the Recording Angel
wth-a tear, not of compassion, but admiration
enough to blot out any mans youthful sin.
1t is to prevent this--to try and make of our
girls the sort of wives that are likened unto
Lemuers mother: 1.-THE heart of her husband
doth safely trust in her; she will do him good,
and not evil, all the days of her life"-that
A.1l6 fhn1W balm 41~h% ENovr AaNl4o
childhood soma knowledge of business, especial
ly money.