Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-09

windows, the shining silver, the whole
some food, the neat toilet of his wife and
then spoken of the shoe in the hall. Yet
if he should find that shoe in the hall
every day for week, it would neccssi-
tate serious talk, in which he should
try and make his wife understand that a
neglected request over a trifie can easily
spoil the whole happy effect of home
coming for man.
If you marry woman who has no dow
| ~ of her own, you would save vast
amount of unhappiness and final
expense by placing an allowance
each month in her hands. Decide how
much you can afford to have her use up
on herself, or upon herself, the children
and house, and let her know that it will
be cheerfully given to her each month on
certain day. No man can realize the
notifying humiliation it is TO most wo-
men to be obliged to ask for money or to
have their bills looked over and criticised.
The hnppiest and most economical house
holds l know to-day are those where the
wife has her regular allowance and pays
her own bills. 1t teaches her economy
and self-reliance and gives her a sense of
independence that of itself creates happi-
ness and content.
day who tells me that all her wealth can
never remove the scars of humiliation left
by the memory of her early years of de-
pendance, when she was obliged to ask
her husband for cents 10 buy yeast
cake, and to explain what she wanted to
do with the cents he grudgingly gave.
Dependence like this sears a woman 5
heart and turns natural sweetness of dis
position into gall. No matter how small
your income give your wife = portion of
it, with the understanding that she is to
depend upon that for her personal needs,
and that she must govern her needs ac-
cordingly.
II your wife Is inclined toward reckless
extravaganza, this will be the best
method in the world Of curing her of it.
Tell her that she must depend upon the
monthly sum you set apart for expenses,
and if she exceeds it one month she must
save il from the next allowance. Talk
quietly and earnestly with her; tell her
that all your labor Is for her sake, and
that you depend upon he- assistance IL
keeping out of debt and making n future
of independence and that it will require
mutual self-sacriice and prudence. II
she Il any kind of a reasonable or sensible
woman, this will accomplish far more
toward making her what you desire than
scOldng or parsimony.
Do not make light jests al 1Mt marriage,
or talk ever in sport before people IS if
you were sick of your corrutia; bar
gain These things always hurt wife's
feelings, however she may disguise the
fact If your wife begins TO fade with
the years, or the tax of motherhood, do
not be forever raving. owe: some fresher
facs in her hearing aud making Ett.s
jokes about having lost your heart e a
new charmer. II is not good taste, aid
cannot fail to wound The heart already
sad with the consciousness of her own
waning personal charms which have been
sacrificed in your service. IL yea hav<
been man popular with ladies, you vii.
find it hard to deny yourself lover-liKe
attentions to them afte! the novelty CT
your married life has worn off. . But
swheneYer you are about 70 take liberty
of this kind, stop and ask yourself if you
would be willing TO have your wife re-
ceive the same attention from some other
gentleman.
If you would not, then it is your duty
to deny yourself. The moment you take
one liberty with the opposite sex you
would not allow her, that moment you
have crossed the dividing line between