The Osceola times. [volume] (Osceola, Ark.) 1870-current, 1888-07-28

| B0fineas andsfhgage IA ns"o~A Ah~As
actions.
Our Girl lives from hand to mouth
| . Wife of trustr far more pathetic than
Muller ever knew or wrote OF. IL papa
! is in good humor and easy in body
and purse, she gets money ION call. "
! IL one or all OF these conditions be want
ing, she goes without it. She learns TO
dread the asking for it long before she
leaves of short frocks, and as early
learns to wheedle and maneuver to OBJ
tain supplies. When she is married
the difficulty becomes a complication.
Papa owed her living, legally and
naturally. John is transmogrified from
the sutton, whose joy and pride found
inadequate expression in lavish gifts,
into the judicious (and judiciaD holder
of the family pursestrings. "Pin
money" with the average wife means
that she can not buy row of pins en-
cept with her husbands money and
consent. She suffers humiliation in her
own eyes, and, she fancies, in his also,
whenever she prefers request for the
sum necessary for the supply OF the
daily wants of the household. She
cringes, like a whipped slave, under
his comments on the rapidity with
which money melts in her fingers, and,
II high-spirited. resents his suggestion
that she fought TO keep an expense
7 hnnlr apI tho xrnrth nf a fal1nw' =
earnings as a reflection upon her hon.
esty. For every instance in which the
estate of yifehood is proprietary there
are one tb Dusand where it is eleemosy-
nary.
The effect OF this virtual pauperism
Is the history OF irregular charity the
world over. 1t demoralizes the finan-
cial conscience and begets shiftlessness
rather than thrift As rule, it is only
old maids and widows who have indie
pendent business concerns to manage.
Should property and responsibility fall
upon them in advance of age they have
chance to test the feminine ability to
conduct business sensibly and success
fully Even then the novitiate is pain
full.
"Such pity that Jane should have
the management OF her husbands
estatel" confded James cousin TO me.
'Only to think! A million dollars left
TO her in fee simple, and when John
died she did not know how to write a
check, or even that the money was de-
posted in bank for safe keeping and
convenience. She thought it drew in
terest and that 1T was pity to disturb
1t until the July dividend was de.
clared."
1.-The more shame for john" l re
Joined, first to make her helpless and
then crush her down with untried cares
How was she to learn these things If moi
from her husband at home?'
Even she had a glimmering conscious
ness of savings bank laws and advan
tages. Thousands OF women live ant
die without that much.
Another and older widow, also lief
sole legatee and executrix Of her hus
bands estate, was thus spoken of by hel
son, her advisor:
"In effect, run the whole thing as
would for a two-year-old. She, deal
soul! doesn't know a coupon from I
check. bond from a bill. If were t.
tell her she would better be somewhat
economical for few months, she
would half stsrve herself and walk Il
save car fare. Were 10 assure hel
that she had enough to maintain hcl
comfortably, abe would buy diamond
necklaces for my girls and a fast horse
for my boy"
Here again the blame should fall
upon the fo0lishly indulgent husband
who kept the woman he loved in infan
tile ignorance during his lifetime, car
rying her in his arms lest she should
touch her dainty toe against a pebble
then dropping her suddenly among
sharks, bouldors and pitfalls.
The cashier of the Fifth Avenue Bank
In New York City has issued a most
sensible little pamphlet, entitled
"Bank Accounts for Women" from
which | gratefully extract the follow.
ing;
MANY husbands and fathers give
their wives and daughters a certain
amount each month with which to run
the house or for pin-lnoney. BY depos-
iting this in the bank, carefully paying
it out by checks, and knowing what
they have spent and what they
have ahead, they learn how fast little
sums, added together, make great sums,
and how small economies accumulate
into great economies. 1t gives women
business habits and helps in fitting
them to take caro- of property, II at any
time it should come into their posses
sion; and, best of all. for married wo-
men, it relieves them from the neces-
sity of so frequently asking their hus-
bands for money. II also saves the
husband much care and annoyance in
the midst of his busy and anxious
life, for the presentation OF small house
bills is often u confusion and an irrita>
ton.
"Presuming that there is the proper
confidence between husband and wife,
a bank account and check book be-
longing to the wife will save both par
ties much wear and tear, and in our
climate and social condition every thing
which makes life easier and more tran
quill is to be studied.