Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-09-27
MONEY IN THE POCKET.
Knowing How to Spend It Is an Excel
lent Trait.

There may be greater virtues in the
possession of the married woman, but
there are few greater and more excel
lent talents than that of knowing how
to spend money not to waste it, but to
spend it and be acquainted With its
management.
The wife of one of our foreign am
hassadors. whose husband was about
to leave her on a long journey, was
given q cheque book, which unfortu-
nateIy and unwisely she had never had
before. with a sum of money in the
bank. On her husbands return he
asked if she had had money enough.
on, yes" she replied. And indeed,
I have half a dozen cheques left" her
idea being that each cheque stood for
as much money as she chose to indi-
cate upon it, without reference to any
specific deposit or anything apparently
but the capacity of the vaults of the
bank: While the bank officials, who
had her husbands greatly larger ac-
count. had suffered her to draw what
she pleased.
This little LADY was no more unac-
ouainted with business processes than
another, who, seeing that when her
husband wanted money he drew q
cheque deliberately signed his name
to q cheque-he being absent, ana II
being necessary to meet the SUD-
scription to a charity-and when other
people We're in no end of a scrape IN
consequence, she at once declared that
she had done it. as she and her nus
band had always had their purse IN
common. A very little instruction
would have prevented any such eN-
hibtion.
Knowing these instances to be facts,
ii is hardly necessary to emphasize
the statement that every girl should be
taught the use of cheque book, even
IL she has only a single dollar IN the
bank
Where acwoman can and does have
funds to draw upon, it is ineXcusaDle
that so simple a matter should pe
neglected. although it probably Is
neglected just because it is so simple.
Still. one cannot help wondering how
man who is going to leave his
daughter or his wife many thousands
does not have her fitted to take care
of il by instruction in the first princl-
pies of banking, in primitive DOOR
keeping and in the drawing OF Waiis
and their codicils. rs that my nus
bands will?" said newly maze
widow to the lawyer sitting beside Aer
and reading the document can
think he would make such VIII as
that Let me look at it. Ana taxing
if she glanced it over, and tossed II
into the fire, al unawares that she mac
committed u felony. s.
Rnt whether or not one knows the de-
tails of the methods of getting money III
10 the right hands. it is an important
mart of a wife,s virtues to know how e
speud the money when. once hers. MANY
a. woman buys what she wants, II she ma;
the means to do so, without a thousnt =
it be the best or II she Ss,'le ~ Vic.
it, or if she could get II ~ better prIc'
els,ewhe But. really. the more open
| handed a husband Is. the more " ~ w
wifets duty to think twice Whel spenatifs
For. putting aside any question: 81 ~ . ~
couitjes in tho husbands income, the rae
Iremafns that IL is usually IN ms power
! and is under. the province OF tnat IdM
which declares that mlgnt MAKES flshl
and ii he is open-hanafa tna. IN, !.
stance gives her 4 double obhgaioh U
spend it reasonably and wisely
1T is not a consideration ~ 7ecpH0nlA
| that is involved. Of sparing. q uilSeiiisf
ness. of doing without tiiat aiiotit iHe'
have. it is the exercise OF z sufficient ne
gree of care in expenditure ana n setini
| that nothing be wasted. Aun aindenote ~
/ where this case become a habit othel
habits of nice inspection follow IN II
/ wake and in the house Of the wise ah'
| careful purchaser where the value Of
| dollar is known. but not prizeu above ~
/ S-aj,1.s Tor All fnat there is nothing lef
at loose ends: the meats are all used up
/ the fruits are not left To spoil motn am
rust do not corrupt. And the servant
here. who see trust thus dafnii,iS vi va
I . "a mite nraps,ted when they have
home of their own to make the most o