The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-20


larger or smaller according to the
mans fortune. This sum is hers to do
with exactly as she wishes. 1t is in
lehdeo, OF course, for the household
expenses, of her clothes and her chill
oren's. but she can spend it as she
pleases.
"Of course, if she dissipates it and
does not provide good meals for her
husband there is trouble at once, but
II she be a wise woman this will not
happen. This allowance is a liberal
one, and is absolutely hers as long as
she lives. If she be frugal and save
some money out of it, so much the bet
Ter Tor her; but no business reverses of
her husbands can ever touch this in
come belonging to the wife,
need not comment on the we'll
known fact that the German house,
wives are the thriftiest in the world
II the women of Germany by reason of
their training can be taught to spend
money so judiciously. why cannot the
same be done with the American wo-
men?
/ have been asked to propose a REM
edv for what 1 consider the greatest
cause of unhappiness in married life,
and 1t seems to me that the delegate
from Hamburg has given us one which
cannot be improved upon. Only
should suggest that we go further
back than the husband and begin to
train the girl before she is old enough
to even think of marriage, and that
the boy be also taught to be consid-
crate.
consider it the duty of every father
to allow his daughter pin money. Not
pin money in the usual acceptance of
the world. e., money for frivolities,
bon-bons, flowers, etc.,-but money for
her clothes and her current expenses.
This sum should be in proportion to
his income, and the girl should be
taught to live within ito save some
thing out of it, if possible.
If the mans family be large and
his income restricted, then he should
train his daughters to be self support
ing. To-day, when so many fields are
thrown open to women, it is the duty
of every father and mother to provide
a means of self-support for their
daughters as we'll as their sons, in case
by any turn of fortunes wheel the ne
cessity for earning a living should con-
front them some future day.
Let men get over their mistaken idea
that women are not good financiers,
and give to their wives a sum adequate
to their position in life. It is a man S
duty to do this and a woman's right
to demand it. Why should she be OBJ
liged to ask for every penny she needs?
Where is her independence, her dig
nifty, that she should be beggar on
her husbands bounty?
There is nothing so calling to wo-
man Cor indeed to man either, and
he should appreciate the fact) as the
lack of ones own money and the i'm
perative necessity of asking for every
penny one needs. Women who have
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freedom and pleasure there is in spend
ing money which is theirs by right of
Inheritance or earning and for which
no one can call them to account, and
such women are very 10th to place
themselves in the equivocal position of
q wife dependent upon her husbands
generosity and within for every cent she
needs.
AS soon as women become brave
enough to demand that an ante-nup-
tial contact shall give them certain
sum for their personal use, free from
all restrictions, and men allow them
selves to become convinced that their
wives are their equals not their play
things, that women can be trained to
spend money judiciously and therefore
separate allowance is their due, this
ore cause of marital unhappiness will,
to my mind. be done away with.
Therefore the remedy 1 would sug-
gest would be:
Fathers, give your daughters an al
lowance. Oblige them to live within
it. Husbands, realize the trial that
1t is for your wives to be obliged to
ask you for every penny they need;
that unlimited credit in all the shops is
not all a woman Graves, and that per-
sonal income, even though small, while
helping a woman to be independent.
will bring more happiness to your
home than any amount of credit and
not a penny in your wifes pocketbook.
Young and pretty women are often
subjected to annoyances that they do
not know how to resent or stop. One
of the very mildest consists in being
made to feel that you are being scru-
tinized from top to toe by eyes that
seem to see through everything that
one mas on. The brutes who subject us
to this sort of scrutiny are invariably
we'll dressed, though by no means al
ways prepossessing in appearance. If
they are not we'll dressed, l suppose we
shouldn't mind it. Suppose a shabby
laborer sat opposite you in car and
stared at you. You might be stirred to
slight contempt, but you would feel
no discomfort. It's different with most
WOHicn- WuGu Tie man VINO SldESS has
a freshly shaved face and patent leath-
ers. And if he limited his observations
to your face it could be endured and
ignored, probably. But he begins at
your feet, if you leave so much as the
tip of your toe exposed, and he studies
the folds and hang of your skirts
seems to estimate your waist measure,
gives a critical and perhaps admiring
glance long continued at the bust line,
and eventually returns to your feet
again. have known many a woman to
rise in the greatest embarrassment,
leave a car and wait for the next one
to escape this manner of impertinence.
1t makes me feel like an artists model.
don't you, know, though l suppose you
don't, for who knows how a model feels
except herself? The sensation, says
Clara Belle in the Cincinnati Enquirer,
was voiced by the pretty girl who was
pouring out her woes to my sympathet
ic ear this morning. Telling of such
a scrutiny, she said:
"Oh, dear, / was so disturbed, for /
couldn't help wondering if he saw the
hole in my stocking that l had neglect
ed to mendI'
The inspector, however, is not to be
compared for brazen impudence and
actual annoyance with that type of
masculine beast who takes advantage
of a crowded car to sit close. What is
a woman to do when she finds that the
total stranger next to her, While os-
tensibly absorbed in a newspaper, is
all the time pressing his body and limbs
close to hers? Shall she shrink slyly
away? Certainly you aver that she
cannot take any course that will be an
acknowledgment of her consciousness,
HIT I don't know about that. The mod |