Nevada County picayune., 1891-05-14
MIR. AND MRS. BoWSER.
BY MRS. BOW SER .

Bowser said to me;
while half Of what | have be-
longs to you | do not propose that
you shall be obliged TO beg for your
half Being the head of the house l
shall carry the wallet, but l suppose
to hand you over certain sum ev-
cry Saturday night. 1t will be pin
money.
"How good you are!"
II think it only just and right.
know a dozen married men whose
wives have to almost get down on
their knees to get dallar. l could
kick such man. How much do you
think you can use week.
A-a-dollar, perhaps.
"A dollar, MY wife is trying to
get alon. on dollar a week E! Why,
you little darling, you shall have at
least ten, and if that is not sufficient
I'll make it $40 or $50"
1t was the old story over again.
He cut me down to S8-$7-S5-S4
-S2-and at length. when we had
been married about four months |
asked him for dollar, he turned on
me with:
"What More money! Do you
think I've got gold mine? What
on earth do you want money for. .
Eve got to get a few little
notions"
But you can't want dollar 5
worth-a whole dollars worth.
Here's thirty cents, and l hope you
will remember that these are hard
times and money is money"
One evening when we had compa-
ny, the talk fell upon this very sub
ject, and Mr.. Bowser promptly OBJ
served:
A wife has just as much right to
the family wallet as the husband
and there ought to be a law to en-
force this right. -
"You make your wife an allowance
of course?" queried one of the la
dies.
Certainly, and l never ask what
use she makes of it. That reminds
me that this is Saturday night and 1
owe her two weeks salary
He opened his wallet and handed
me three ten dollar bills, and five
married ladies exclaimed in chorus
"How-I-wish- I-was-Mr S.
Bowser!"
Before the evening was over | had
the money hidden away, and our
company had scarcely departed when
Mr.. Bowser held out his hand to me.
"What is it?'
"Hand over
"What do you mean?'
That thirty dollars"
"But it is my allowance. You
said so before all the people, and
now you won't be lngun enough to
take it back Z"
You know very well why gave
it to you, 1t was to show off over
Thompson and Jones, who never al
low their wives cent"
"Well, I'll see about it.
After we had been in bed half an
hour, and he thought / was asleep,
he got up and searched two long
hours for that money. | had tucked
it behind the clock in the sittin Q
room, and he found it at last, and
when he got into bed / heard him
chuckling:
The idea of any sane man giving
his wife $50 in lump. Why, she d
have just wasted two-thirds of it,"
We had been married about year
and l remember what shock it gave
me when Mr.. Bowser returned to the
house one morning about half an
hour after he had started down town.
He came rushing up the steps, un-
locked the door and banged it open,
and his face was as pale as death as
he gasped out:
"My-my wallet"
"Your wallet! Why 1 found it
under your pillow and left it on the
mantle there"
and you-you've leeked inside
of it,"
"No, haven't, It's there, just
as | found it,"
He seized il and sat down and sat
counted the contents over thrice. and
as he uttered great sigh of relief,
asked:
lis your money all right?'
1t seems to be-"
And suppose Ihad opened it and