The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-07-20
Facts of Interest
To. Women Readers.
, Symposium of Information, Partly Grave.
Partly Cosby and Partly Gay.

the latest modern plan.
But she lost her heart, like others. and CT
course: twas lost to man;
SO at last the two were married. and they
started married life
As they, thought. equipped and ready. well
prepared for any strife.
She was pUsted on his business quite us
thoroughly as he;
She had studied all the details and, as any
d, one could see, - -.
She could run the shop or office; and 1t
also seemed quite clear
She could act as his bookkeeper or could
serve as his cashier.
She could sell goods on commission or
a could buy on thirty days;
She was sharper than most merchants In
all proper business ways:
She could 'take' from his dictation. and
dictate to Others. too
There was nothin' round the office that
she really couldn't do.
So they thought they were we'll armored
for a life of great success,
But the outcome of their trial was fall
- ure. more or less. &,
They are doomed to boarding houses. and
regretfully they roam
For while both can run the office, neither
one can make home.
Rochester Herald.
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The New York Sun thinks that Judge
Wilson, of Cincinnati. indulged in
very hasty generalization when, In the
trial of an aiimony case. he interjected
the remark that "any man who gives
all his salary to his wife Is fool
Many men, the sun adds mot fools, but
wise and prudent, turn over their earn
ings to their wives as the most compe-
tent stewards OF the household. 1t Is
a practice which prevails extensively
among careful wage earners. The wife
is the family streasurer to whose keep
ing the hutHand intrusts his wages.
If she is good woman she has only the
interests of the family at heart. and II
she is a prudent woman she can dis
pense its income more economically
than he. She understands better its
needs, is more unselfish less liable to
self-indulgence. and a more Skilful pur-
veyor. Temptations to waste money in
excesses, which beset him, do not at
tack her. II does not so readily burn
holes through her pockets as through
HIS Silt ls bSllcr dOle W Set us NuElu
in substantial comforts and necessi-
ties. Many men know how to make
money, very few how to use it and keep
it; and hence among wage earners It
frequently happens that the husband
acknowledges that the wife Is the su-
perlor financier by putting in her keep
ing his Saturday nights wages. Pos
sibly he may retain trifling sum for
his absolutely necessary personal ex-
penses, but often time he gives up to
her all OF 1t, and she supplies him with
what he requires. BY so doing the man
escapes temptations to extravaganza
and self-indulgence which would be ir-
resistible II he carried about his wages
in his pocket as both the bread winner
and the treasurer of the household.
with the consequence of suffering for
the family and no savings laid by
a9atnst rainy day. =
JOKES ON THE GIRLS:
JackAWhat makes you call Flora vain?
Ethel-She wears such ugly clothes.
Jack-I should think that a sign Of any,
thing but vanity.
Ethel-Oh. no! 1t means she thinks
she's pretty enough to stand anything.
"How do you know Miss Penwell is a
college girl? She doesn't talk like one."
NO; but you should See her make CO.
Goa over gas-jet. That shows her college
training
Bess-How did Anna finally succeed IN
discouraging his attentions?
Laura-She wore a ready-made tie.
He (meanlng to be complimentary
How becoming that veil Is to you, Miss
Fannie! Why don't you wear 1t oftener?
And now he is trying to tell why she
treats him coldly.
How do you know the De Billions are
really poor? He used to be wealthy"
"Yes; but they must have lost their
money. Why, Estelle has been abroad for
a year and hasn't been reported engaged
to even one count."-New York World.
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Generally, continues the Sun, wives
are much less disposed to extravaganza
than the husbands. They do not visit
rum shops and Nave no desire to enter
them. They do mot smoke and they do
not treat. las good mothers they may
be anxious to have their children pre-
sent a nice appearance, but they are
very sparing in expenditures on their
own dress. Bridget, too, wants to keep
Patrick straight, and she knows his be-
eetting weakness. She doesn't want
MIN to have too much money, for she
knows IT Is not good for him. She had
rather build up an account in the say
ings bank for the time when he loses his
Job. She may discipline him severely
on occasion, but even in his rebellion
o1e knows that he needs the restraint.
The best thing many man can do
with his earnings is to turn them over
to his wife. II she's a bad woman, un-
worthy of the trust, God help him! He
Is Q wretched creature. II she is vain
and cllly and selfindulgent woman, he
has a load on his back which will be
likely to keep him down always. A
woman to Whom poor man connot
trust his money .is no fit wife for him.
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THEN THE MILLENNIUM: =
When man knows how to match a ribbon,
When woman learns 20 drive a nail,
When man can thread a needle deftly.
Wnen mice don't make a woman pale,
When woman gets or right from street
cars,
Instead; of facing toward the rear,
When man stops smoking bad tobacco
And drinking sour-smelling beer,
When woman doesn't walk the sidewalk
With spreading skirts and pufred-out
~ sleeves,
When man stops flirting with new charm.
ers
And to his lawful darling cleaves,
When man can understand the baby
Ana woman petting II talks sense,
When man proposes a new bonnet
, And woman sliies at the expense