The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-11-30
THE FEMININE PURSE.
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This would Illustrate the very end
in view. In our family the General has followed
this system. My eldest daughter, Florence, has
for years past received an annuity, and this plan
has worked remarkably well. The importance
of educating our boys in this respect is another
important question, and 1t would be as well If
more of our colleges for young men were to in-
sttute the system observed at Hamilton College,
in Central New York, of which my son is
student. The pupils are organized into separate
chapters or messes of a limited number, and the
different chapters occupy individual houses,
which are owned by the institution, and which
are conducted upon strictly domestic principles.
certain amount is contributed by every men,
Der into general fund, which is placed IN the
hands of treasurer elected from the senior
class A housekeeper is also appointed each year
in the same way from among the older boys. To
these two are entrusted all matters connected
with the management of the home, subject to the
approval of the mess, and to them is left furnish
ing and selecting every article, not only for the
table, but for the household, such furniture
and carpets, china, glass, bed and table linen
etc. Should an extra demand crop up for enter
tanning, each member is assessed an equal
amount for the additional expense which is
never allowed to exceed a moderate sum- | was
greatly amused when my son returned for his
holiday last year to see the interest he took in
never seemed to trouble his brain. At the dinner
table one day he remarked casually, we keep q
pretty good table at our house; but, mother,
notice that your damask is much finer and pret-
tier pattern than ours Not long afterward he
said, we are anXiously considering new carpet
for the parlor, and have not been able to come to
decision whether it shall be body brussels or
something equally as effective and less expen-
sive.' l think the boy is getting quite as valu-
able an education through his housekeeping as
through his books, and l doubt not but that it
will make him better husband end better
business man."
WHAT MRS. ROBERT p. PORTER THINKS.
One of the brightest women Of the pres
ent Administration is Mrs. Robert P. Por-
ter, the wife of the Census Commissioner.
She has decided opinion upon the allow
ance question, and she believes girls
should be given Il fixed weekly sum from
the time they are in short dresses. Said she:
| "An allowance inculcates self-reliance and de-
yelops taste and Judgment. l believe that a
child of five years can profit by it, and weekly
allowance at that age, if it be only ten cents, or
better five, could teach the child great deal
AS the girl grows older the sum should naturally
| increase, and when she is sixteen, with judicial
mother to guide and consult with, her allowance
| should cover the cost of her wardrobe, with d
| destined portion, no matter how small, set aside
| for individual pleasure and charity. If she pre-
fers to buy books and photographs instead oil
| bon-bons and ices, so much the better and if il
| spirit she is Little Sister Of the Poor it will &C
| for a better purpose still. When girl who ha:
been brought up in this manner marries she will
use her husbands money as wisely AS she hat
| her fathers.
About an allowance for married women?
| well, you know there are questions such al
love and religion, that difficult to discuss
without touching on something of ones persona
experience. In this question ones opinion il
naturally the result of experience and any ap
parent lack of taste in aluding to 1t must be par
doned. have fixed, as every woman should d.
who is possessed of common sense and respec
for the money which represents her husband
brain labor, on q weekly sum which covers tn
household expenditures, and use my own discre
ton in the spending of it. My personal expendi
lures never allow to go beyond certain limit
and they are kept quite distinct from household
accounts. We have no bills, and have neve
had occasion to ask my husband for money
This is thing, by the way, that no woman
should be compelled asked to do. 1t puts he
in false and humiliating position, and to
woman who has been independent would be r
tolerable. Neither would a man of fine or del
cate feeling permit it,"
MRS JUSTICE LAMAR OBJECTS.
Mrs. L. Q. G. Lamar is the only dissenting voic
in the universal verdict, and she speaks from he
lifelong experience of the Southern open hande
generosity. Said she: 1T has been my exper
ence that the women of the South, with few
any exceptions. make the very best of wives, AM
though generally educated without thought
the little questions of economy which figure
. conspcuously in the domestic management of
New England household, they seem to possess
natural instinct for management. Whena Sout
ern girl marries young man in moderate ci
cumstances she invariably adapts herself to tt
| requirements of the position, and undertakes tl