Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-01-11
THE FAMILY PURSE.
Why Women Arc Entitled to "a Part of 1t
Contents n Right.

Contents as Right.
In the want of proper understanding be-
tween a husband and his wife concerning
pecuniary matters lies a source Of friction.
Where the management and labor OF wife
count as nothing she is conscious of in
Justice and wrong. "My dear said an
eminent ph1lanthrOpist to his wife one day
as he suddenly burst into the sitting-room,
u have been counting the windows i'll our
house and find there are forty. 1t Just
occurs to me that you have to keep these
forty windows clean, or superintend the
process, and that is not the beginning of
your work. All these rooms have to be
swept and garnished, the carpets made and
cleaned, the house linen prepared and kept
in order, besides the cooking to be done,
and | took it all as matter of course. /
just begin to see what woman's work is,
even when she has help, which you are not
always able to procure. You ought to re-
ceive a monthly stipend as housckeeper
would. Why haven't you made me see it
before! have not been just to you while
have been generous to Others"
The wife, who told this in after years, sat
down with her husband and for the first
time since her marriage opened her heart
freely on the topic of woman's allowance.
rowful hour at her position as beggar. At
the head of large household in western
town where domestic service was both
scant and incompetent, she had hardly been
trusted with S. at a time during their
united lives.
Robert and talked it over" she said
''ard decided that the woman who takes
-rEzs-p-sf any household article, like carpet,
for instance, from the time it is first made
till it is worn out has expended upon it an
amount of time and strength fully equal to
the labor that made it, counting from the
shearng of the wool TIL it comes from the
loom 1t may be unskIllcd work, but it is
WORK All the same. And this is only one
small item in her housekeeping labor.
Docs not she deserve some payment be
sides her board and clothing:
Robert saw WOman's work in a now
light. From that time until to-day he has
placed 4 generous share of his income in
my hands. not as a gift but as 4 right And
he knows that will no more frittcr it away
than he will If | choose to deny myself
something l need and bestow its cost in
charity or buy some books l crave, he no.
more thinks of Gliding me than l think of
Gliding him for spending his money as he
likes" says Good Housekeeping.
There are other Roberts who have yet to
learn this lesson of justice, and they are
found in every walk of life. l have known
rich men who were ready to buy silks, vel
vets and diamonds for their wives some
times far beyond what were desired, yet
who grudgingly dOled out five dollars at
tiiic when appealed to for money. The
reason given is that it may be spent foolish
ly. If any thing will prolong babyhood in
TO maturity it is such treatment. Against
it a woman's nature rises in rebellious in
dignation. Thoughts OF bitterness rankle
IN the wounded heart, and there are Eighty,
hooking, fIppant creatures made 50 by just
this want of trust on the part of their hus-
bands. The gravest and most elusive
faults are always found among dependent
classes.