Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-05-26

farming branch We are equally in
terested in the successful management
of every detail of our work: but if |
can make the expenditure for barn and
farm and orchard better because they
are my special care, surely you can
make the expenditure for the house
better because that is your special
care. 1t is so plain to me now, | Won
der there was ever a time when I did
not see it. We can have a Joint foot
ing up of accounts once a month, so
that each may keep a hand on the
pulse of the business. This arrange
ment will increase my content and
self-respect. whether it does yours or
not. When we have it well in hand,
we can outline the plan at our Farm
ers' Club. and it may spread"
Delphines eyes grew large and
bright. then soft and tender. Willard
always liked to watch their changes.
She took hold Of both lapels of his coat
Ga way of herS) and said:
Willard, you have a poets insight
and hero's execution. The other day,
when | asked you what you thought
might be the advantages or disad-
Vantages of the wife having free access
- lily IiIllllS ppChtlDOOk, you replied,
indifferently: If she needed money, it
would be a convenience | wished.
then, that you might have an expert
ence that would make you understand
the humiliating poverty of hard-work-
ing women in some well-to-do house
holds. 1t has come sooner than | eX-
pected.'
do YOU think Mrs Handson is obliged
IN ls- for. dol Oh, .o
asked Willard, looking uncomfortable
Yes. every cent said Delphine
warmly. And as the children's wants
increase, hers are curtailed Do you
think if she had been free to use some of
the money she has earned. she would
have nothing but the barest necessities
about her today,-that woman. with her
love for the beautiful? Yet | am glad III
believe that few husbands are like Peter
Handson. But more women are made un-
comfortable about household expenses
than You imagine. Only the other day,
Mrs Bradley told me she dreaded to SEQ
sugar on the rise; it seemed harder for
men To buy sugar than any other one
thing. adding. pathetically: 1T takes 81
much sugar To do for our big family /
was indignant over the smallness of Il
good man with large means making sucn
an economical houSekecper uncomfort-
able about the sugar he and his six great
boys eat up. of course, some women are
spendthrifrs, like some men: but reduc-
ing them To dependent beggarY cannot
help the case. There must be some bet
ter way: ana the man who blunders hy
taking such partner into his business
ought to find that better way"
You ride your hobby we'll" said VIII
lard. with real admiration under his jest.
As they closed their account books aft
er their first grand clearance Gas Del
phine called it,. Willard asked:
In the light Of a years experience,
what would YOU say are the advantages
Of a married partnership that goes AZ
deep aS the pOcket-boOk"'
''Twenty-tive dollars saved Il no mean
thing. said Delphine.
Particularly with improved board ami
more comfortable household appoint
ments' put in Willard.
Delphine waved him into silence with
her pencil These are small things" Sh.,
continued. but well worth while The
great advantage is the increased indie
pendence and self-respect of the house
mother and the consequent increased re-
spcCt shown her by family and friends
That was good seed YOU scattered in the
Farmers Club, and which you have 50
diligently watered ana tended since. Mrs.
Bradley has her own check-book nov.
and manages the household branch just
2s INDEPENDENTLY e. ! Do. I know Two
families who never had bank account,
that are trying essentially the same plan.
and are likely to be able to make depos-
its by and by. And dear. blessed Mrs.
HandSOn. whom to know is to love, has
all the egg and butter money for her own,
now. She looks an inch taller, and years
happier
''Delphne," said Willard. with search
ing look. are YOU happier?
She knew that he read her heart, and
YES. Willard A silver chain is Yet 4
chain; but the hand that breaks ii weavcs
cords Of grateful love more binding IT.
Woman's Journal.