The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1903-11-28


If my husband and 1 were to get
ahead in the world l must look after
the outlay In our family I resolved
to begin right at the start. when my
husband was still soft and loving and
would do anything for his bride
you can hardly believe it, but my
husband was earning only $40 a week
when we were married. We had two
rooms rented and furnished, and we
went into them and set up housekeep-
ing at once. Our modest wedding fes-
tivities were quickly over, and my hus-
band went back to business. The
morning he did so he laid one dollar
bill upon the mantelpiece.
What is that forY l asked him.
Why it's for you to pay out for
house expenses, of course
No, no, sweetheart, l said You
give all your money to me, and will
take care of it. Here is this little cabi-
net that have. There are two keys
to 1t. i will keep one, you keep the
other. You give me your wages every
week, dear, and 1 will put them in the
cabinet. When you need money I'M
lock it and get what you want. l will
do the same. That's the best way.
isn't it. for us both to be suitedY
"A man WHO has only been married
three days cannot deny his wife any
thing, and of course my lover-husband
said yes, and there never was any
trouble between us about money from
that day on. l tell you a bride must
start right with a man in the very be-
ginning"
Mrs Hartman was too modest to CON
tinue and tell the result of her finan-
c1al management but here it is:
AS time, went ON the young wife
found she could save little even on
$40 week She saved it, and as the
sum swelled she invested it. wisely
keeping matters of this sort mostly to
herself. Children came - dear bright
little sons and daughters; the husband s
pay increased; still this model wise wo-
man of King Solomon looked well TO
the ways of her household and went on
laying by such small sums as she could
BY and by with the money she had
saved her husband was able to 90 into
business for himself.
Then their day of prosperity began.
the wife still having charge of the
purse. That fact gave her a dignity
and consideration from her husband
and sons nothing else could have done
This is quite true. Money does talk.
Sun better days came. This house
hold economist at length purchased an
apartment building and kept it in her
own name for herself. A branch of the
husbands business was established in
Havana, and one of the sons was sent
there to take charge Of IT. He married
ana lives I'm Havana. the Cuban ven
ture meantime having grown TO be a
large commercial house. The husband
has retired and has nothing 10 do ex-
cept be happy and wax fat and wonder
how he will put In his time.
whether he ever speculates ON what
would have happened II his bride had
allowed him 70 keep all the money and
dole u OUT TO her . dollar az dime
one does not know. IL Is doubtful II be
ever would have accumulated much
Ike many men, he was iD the habit Of
buying whatever BIZ bis fancy, wheth-
~ be needed u or not, Ills wife bought
only what he, she and their children
eeeded, saying ihe rest and inyesunQ
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