The daily sentinel., 1903-11-20
HOLD THE REINS.

of penal institutions in this country
because women have made those
men live beyond their earnings? The
number would be hard to estimate.
yet there are many. unquestionably
if the records in such cases published
in the press of the country are cor
rect.
Two women. both of them but-re-
cent y married in Seattle. both under
twenty yaers of age. will have to look
at their husbands through prison
bars. because they compelled their
husbands to be hold ups to supply
enough money to keep them in stylish
dress and in maintaining appearances
among the set with which they had
been accustomed to associate.
One of the directors general of the
st. Louis exposition, Blair, known to
every ms II in iat city, identified with
every enterprise went to tile wall with
an immense amount of Indebtedness
due solely because OF his attempt to
lead socieuy with the support of his
wife. the latter pushing him into
extrayagances which he could not Sc
cure sufficient money to supply. An
honored name blackened. friends used
mercilessly by him in sustaining his
credit, all for tickle society.
There is no excused for a woman
running n man in debt beyond his
ability to pay. No man. with a
sense of what is due his wife will
permit her to simply get along in anv
fashion denying her sufficient for de
cent necessities.
On the other hand no woman as a
right to run husband into inde bted-
ness beyond his capacity to pav.
The land is full of wrecks of men
who might have maintained their
homes in comfort and > comparative
Irodigality. had it not have been for
the fictitious attempt to lead society.
1t were better thousand times to APP
pear in decent honest homespun. than
in costly silks and laces. if the latter
are secured by imparing the husband S |
credit aud leading him into danger
Gus paths.
Many women refuse to hear the |
enumeration Of their husbands bust
ness enterprises. his debts and cred
its. They prefer to go blindly for
ward, heedlessly securing anything
they can by beguilement of the good |
nature of their husbands. than to pay
a strict account to what that husbal d |
has obligated himself to pay.
The wife of Director General |
Blair. of the st. Louis exposition now |
comes forward, according to the dis |
patches, and promises to do ANYTHING
to help support the family. if her
husband will promise not to commit |
suicide. But what compensation is
it to a man who has spent the best
years of his life in obtaining cred |
liable position in business life. to re-
ceive help i'll mis- dist ess to support !
his family. Had the wife taken a
reasonable interest in her husband $
affairs while he was in the swim of |
apparent success. then she would have |
been doing her share toward main
tanning an honorable position for her
husband
But we do not intend to cast Il
blame solely on the wife. a man is
to blame for giving awav to the un-
reasonable demands of a woman. A
man should school himself to meet
such demands not with harshness or
brutality, but with an eveness of
temper and with such explanations as
will convince his wife that he cannot
accede to her demands. without i'm
pairing his credit and threatening the
future of his business.
The papers have lately contained
many accounts of cases where an un-
due extravaganza has been maintained
to keep up with some one else in the
social swim. There have beeu tales
of agony after disastrous consequences
have resulted from spending their own
and other peoples money.
The safe side is the best side The
best side is the side wherein man
can pay his honest obligations aided
and assisted by the moral support and
sympathy of the wife of his bosom.
To go beyond anyone's capacity to
pay. to maintain spurious social eX,
istence is crime, which some one
must eventually suffer for having in
dulged.