The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1892-01-29

much more economical and prudent than
we are. | have to insist upon nv wife
buying some things out of the surplus. for
she wants to bank the money instead of
spending it. Women do not like to spend
their own money on though
they will squander other folks money on
them. Mrs. Baldwin never felt that the
salary her husband brings home is not his
nor hers, but the family revenue, in which
she had " 18th him joint equal and unauard-
ed rights. All extra money | earn, aside
of salary, is spent for Injuries for nv wife
and children. In the disposition OF this
extra money have equal voice Win her.
and often veto her proposal concerning ii.
If we can't agree, it goes into the bank for
my boy's school fund. The extra appro-
priation bills are the only ones | ever see
or know anything about"
but is this not a gift from you?
"Do | give her shoes and stockings. and
bread and meat? The family provide
these things alike for her aud for me. If
Senator Jones votes for a pension for some
soldiers widow, does he or the people of
the United States-of whom he is only Que
give it to her? My salary is a family
revenue, held in usufruct for its members
as Herbert Spencer (echoipg Thomas JEFF.
ferson) would have the land held for the
living; and SO are all additions to it. The
only money to which | can lay any claim
is my s. per week. Before marriage nv
wife and had individual rights to proper
ty. BY our marriage each surrendered our
individual rights to property, and these
wete fused together in a joint estate with
joint rights. The marriage service means
something. Everybody knows this to be
true here land is concerned. No one will
purchase real property from a married
man or woman acting alone. Both parties
must unite in the sale to give a clear title,
The All principle obtains with salary as
with land. 1t belongs equally to both.
Ny So and my wife's 50 are our individual
and personal property held in fee by special
grant and charter from the crown to which
we owe sllegiance-and it's not one of
Wild Olives. Neither one has any more
individual claim to the s34 than Queen
Victoria or Lord Salisbury has to the $780,
00O, 900 yearly revenue Great Britain re-
eeiyes from her tariff on imports. Oar
henas is a kingdom-on a small scale. |
reign, my wife governs. and our $40 are
the revenues for the support of the king.
dom, cut Of which we receive certain al
lowances, and the revenue belongs to thu
family to be spent for the general vel
, fare.
But you cannot dismiss four Prira,
Minister"
Nor eau Queen Victoria without tn
consent of her people. Ask the two littl
subjects OF my kingdom if they want an
other Prime Minister"
Since then have bad Will and Baldwin
to lunch, and nave drawL them out OIL
this topic. Neither bad much to say
Will summed it up in a sentence: If ]
don't carry the pocket book, l am not the
head of the house; and if | am not the
head of the house, | might as well go
home to my Pa :" Baldwin was briefer
aud more logical: women are condemned
fools, and Dick is a crank. Don't marry
Ii Dick is not a crank" why do ninety.
nine men out Of every hundred carry the
pocket book? There must be some reason
why he is alone in theory and practise
among all my friends. What is il? VIII
the wives and mothers tell uss-L T.
wilson.