The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-03-29

| you, do not propose, THAT you Shall be
obliged to beg for your half. Being the
head of the house, shall carry the wallet,
but propose to hand you over a certain
sum every Saturday night. 1t will be pin
money"
Glow good you are"
II think it is only just and right. /
know dozen married men whose wives
have to almost get down on their knees to
get dollar I could kick such a man.
How much do you think you can use a
! week."
"A-a-dollar, perhaps"
"a dollarl My wife trying to get along
on dollar week. Why, you little dar.
ling, you shall have at least ten. and if that
is not sufficient I'll make it twenty or
thirty"
1t was the old story over again. He cut
me down to en-fve-four-two
and at length, when we had been married
about four months and | asked him for q
dollar he turned on me with
"What More money! Do you think I've
got gold mine? What on earth do Won
want money for?"
"Eve got to get few little notions"
But you can't want a dollars worth-a
whole dollars worth. Here's thirty cents,
and | hope you will remember that these
are hard times and money is money"
One evening when we had company the
talk fell upon this very subject, and Mr..
Bowser promptly observed:
ga wife has just as much right to the
family wallet as the husband and there
ought to be law to enforce this right"
"You make your wife an allowance, of
course?" queried one of the ladies.
Certainly, and l never ask what use she
makes of it. That reminds me that this is
Saturday night and owe her two weeks
salary"
He opened his wallet and handed me
three ten dollar bills, and five married la
dies exclaimed in chorus:
How Nv wish --was-Nirs.-Bov
serl"
Before the evening was over Ihad 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 lnJun enough to take it back
you know very well why l gave it to
you. 1t was to show off over Thompson
and Jones, who never allow their wives a
cent"
''Well, I'll see about it'
After we had been in bed half an hour.
and he thought | was asleep, he got I'D and
searched about for two long hours after
that money | had tucked it behind the
clock in the sitting room, and he found it
at last, and when he got into bed heard
him chuckling:
''The idea of any sane husband giving
his wife thirty dollars all in lump! Why.
she'd have just wasted two-thirds of itp'
We had been married about year, and
l remember what shock it gave me when
Mir. Bowser returned to the house one
morning about half an hour after he had
started down town. He came rus hing I'D
the steps, unlocked the door and banged it
open, and his face was as pale as death as
he gasped out:
"My-my walletl;'
"Your wallet? Why, found it under
your pillow and left it on the mantel
there"
And you-you've looked inside of itp'
mo, haven't. It's there just as found
it."
He seized it and sat down and counted
the contents over thrice, and as he uttered
a great sigh of relief asked
SIS your money all right?'
sit seems to be.''
And suppose l had opened it and
counted your cash?"
''Wwhatl'
Suppose l had even helped myself to
five dollars or ten dollars?n
"You-you help yourseffp'
Eyes. Didn't you tell me that half your
money belonged to me, and that had Just
as much right to the family wallet as
you?"
''Never!"
''Mr. Bowser!'
Never. Never didl Never said anv.
thing which could possibly be construed
to mean any such thingl Never, under
any circumstances, Mrs Bowser, do YOU
dare to lay finger on my walletW
Il never will-not even after you are
deadr'
'See that you t."--Detroit FREQ
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