The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-04-17
THE RIFG's sliRE.
An Article That We Want All Eus.
bands to Read.

One Of the most timely, most practi-
cal and Risest articles We have read
lately appears in Harper's Bazaar for
this week from the pen Of Margaret
Hamilton Welch. 1t is entitled "The
Wife's Share Of the Income" We can
not refrain from quoting the following
paragraphs, though every word and
every sentiment of the intire essay are
true and just:
1.-THE wife whose husband is just
enough to accord to her as her rig ght the
unrestricted use Of share Of the family
income can scarcely appreciate the con-
tinuous suffering Of her sister whose
matrimonial finances are arranged on
the opposite plans. It makes little dif-
ference whether the establishment be
elaborate or simple. Women who can
select Paris gowns and rose dimonds
are often as destitute Of money in the
purse to buy theatre ticket, to bessoR
a gift or even to purchase bunch Of
7iolets at the street corner as the un-
fortunate little hcusekeeper who has
never the sum Of a car fare to call her
own. Each woman is equally humiliat
ed and each undoubtedly has moments
in common when all the virtues Of her
otherwise kind and even loving spouse
fail to outweigh in the scale Of her self
respect the bitterness which her igno-
miny produces toward the man who
osuses IL. r. Eould be revelation to
some men, domestic tyrsnts in this way.
if they could look into the hearts Of
their non-resistiDg, accepting wives and
see the positive contempt and hatred
that is, at times, written there
for their partners in Wedlock. Is it to
be wondered at? Can a woman wholly
love a man whose actions in making her
worse dependent than her servant
must arouse contempt? The high.
spirited Woman will not submit, it will
be said. She does, though, all over
the land, every day in the year. She
will demonstrate, perhaps, but the
nature Of the man who puts this yoke
upon his wife is not, as rule, ameD-
able to remonstrsnce, and the peace of
the home, the respect of the children,
the gossip Of servants and the speech
Of people must all be considered and
serYe to keep the sorely tried woman
from any radical step. If the lives Of
unsuspected myrtyrs are ever written
these unhappy partners Of many coed
but unconscious!y cruel man should be
get forth in characters of gold for their
years Of unnecessary, torturing endur-
ance.
THE injustice Of tie hu band who
doles cut q rigidly to be-accounted. for
stipend for the household expenses, al
lowing the wife not q penny for her
private, Independent purse, is as fs-
grant as it is unmanly. In any bust
ness partnership the share Of profit is
in proportion to capital invested
Certainly she who leaves her fathers
house to assist the man Of her choice
in the upbuilding>of a home in which
both share contributes by her presence,
her thought, her labor, her response
bility, her effort and arrangement in q
thousand ways ao equal share with the
man in the new investment. It is her
right that this should be recognized in
the control Of the firms money
receipts"
How many husbands who read these
words must feel that they apply to
theml In most cases it is thoughsless-
ness which causes husbands to subject
their wives to the Inconvenience and
humiliation which Miss Welch describes
in terms none too severe, By her force
full portrayal Of this evil and her strong
plea for its abatement Miss Welch may
do much for the relief Of those unfor-
tunate wives to whom ber heart goes
out in sympathy.