Arizona republican., 1899-03-27
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New York. March 26.-"To see m!
 chum." Sandwiched in on the real
 platform of the trolley car one nigh last week with nine other hungry be-
 ings. who. like myself, were goin&
 home to dinner. I overheard one mar
 ask another, Well, c!d fellow, where
 are you going this evening"" The "olc
 felloW,' fine Joking business man, t0I
 a guess about 45 years of age, made | the remark that I have used to intro
 duce this weeks letter. Presently i found that the chl1m spoken of was tue
 mans wife Seventy fares had been rung in, and I couldn't help speculat1ng
 as to how many married men on that ] car made 'schums' of their wives Probably nearly every man on the car had chtlm, a bosom friend with whom he spent many of his evenings and 1D
 whose congenia1 company he perched at the lunch counter during the noon l hour. or exchanged business and social condolences across the inviting repast
 at one of the downtown dining clubs And why not?
 Such social animals as men must have chuns. But how many men make their wives the chief chum among all? Some do. But many oth-
 CTS do not They sleep at home, pay
 the household bills, furnish naw bon
 nets, do the drama and whist engage
 ments with their wives, but they do not
 make chums Of taen- There Is not
 that oId-fashioned, for-better- fo--
 worse, tell-you-afl, honey-and-hus
 spirit of companionship which sets
 them di-wn as chums in everything.
 When one sees a man and wife of this
 kind he feels that they are eXperienc-
 j-,1 <ff ,aV
 Cerning which the preachers talk as if they had been there. It is easy to im- agine how these people chat together
 in the evening hour, how they plan and hope and deny and enjCy, how each is interested in all that the other is doing
 DO HUSBANDS SEE THE POINT?
 Make a chum of your wife Multiply your common interests. Read the same books Take an interest in what she does. Talk over your business with her "Humpht' says a man who thinks that one might as well talk business with a child as with WO- man. My Wife's business judgment wouldn't amount to a TOW of pins. I take care of the business end of our affairs and she runs the household mat ters." EXactlyl But we are curious to ask if you have taken the time ia which tc lay some business project be- fore her, and have you compared her business judgment with your own? Lots of men entertain the idea that no one else in the family has any busi ness judgment except themselves. But not so with all men, for some of the brightest among them consult their wives about business matters. Not that they talk over every detail of busi- ness with thair wives, but rather that they consult them before making the more important business moves, and so keep them intelligent about and inter ested in what concerns them both.
 PCCh-pOoh as many men do and say | that women simply jump at conclu- sions. Very well, but take note that | they have jumped at some very good | by their powers of intui- | ton, and also write it down as a fact | hat in many cases these wives can ex- efcise as keen judgments as many Of | .heir husbands who read this Sunday | Morning Talk. One of the best-selling | novels which has been published in re ;ent years was brought out by q man who took the manuscript home and g0f lis wifes judgment concerning it.
 Several publishers had refused the but this little woman, whose name didn't appear on the pub isher's sign, but who had more real interest in her husbands business sue ,ess than anybody else on earth, read he manuscript carefully and passed ia rorable judgment on it. Her advice strengthened her husbands opinion in he matter, the book was published -nd proved a great financial success. Lots of husbands have been better eff y yOking their wives judgment to ! heir own, and it ought to be a pointer or the men who never think of talk ng over their business matters with heir wives.
 TOO CLOSE -MOUTHED.
 Were their husbands to die tomorrow here are many wives who would be heated out of a part of what belongs 0 them simply because they are kept gncrant of their husbands business fairs. There isn't the close bond Of humship between such couples that houid exist. Some months ago a wo- nan whose husband was making caVy losses in his business told me hat the first hint that she had of this Gndition of affairs came to her trough the wife of her husbands most intimate friend. The man has since 1ade a bad failure, but had he died uddenly before his wife knew about is losses she never would have been ally satisfied that his creditors weren't rying to cheat her out of :, part of her rOperty.
 Certainly here was somathing that oncerned her as much as it did her and yet he hadn't made nough of a chum of her to even tell CT about these losses. Of course, her ] usband might have said that he did ct care to have his wife worry about is business affairs, CT that she could ot have prevented the losses had he cen fit to make q cOnfidant of her. rue, she might not have prevented { he losses, but as to the worrying l bout them, it seems to me that she hould have done just this. (
 Why net? They were her losses. , DO, and if either was to worry, both nould have. It was her place to bear