Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-06-10
HOW HE REALLY ACTS.
American Husband Often Not
as Pictured.
MONEY COMES FIRST.
Illustrations Secured from Remarks
Dropped Here and There by Wives
Many Guard Secrets.

in all pen pictures, especially those
drawn of him by foreign artists, is a
most amiable being. His amiability and
his head for business are all there is to
him, according to these pictures, and he
does not present a distinguished appear
ance. His one occupation is in making
money to fill his pockets with copper,
silver or gold, according To the quality of
his genius in that direction. and then to
pour this into the lap of his wife at home
to Use as she may see fit. A number of
women discussing the subject the other
| day asked each other if characteristics
| of this kind could be called national: if
there was a national type and if the I'M
| generous husband was not an individual
| frequently to be seen.
Tell Others Stories.
To illustrate, each had q sorry TO tell.
No woman told her own story-women
are loyal to their families, and there was
not one of those speaking who had not
| the best husband that ever lived and the
| histories they had to relate were of ac-
| quaintances, friends and relatives. They
were of people of all classes of society,
of all parts of the country, and of all de-
grees of wealth.
| One of the first examples given is from
/ the wealthiest class. The wife is young,
| beautiful and apparently with everything
to be desired in life. What can be more
desired than wealth, beauty and social
| position? Those are gifts of the fairy
godmother in the fairy tales. only stated
there a little more in detail for pic
| turesque effect.
They could be enumerated in the same
way here i'll the real life of millionaires
pearls and emeraids, diamond
crown-fairy tale expression for a tiara
| "a beautiful house, Il coach and four,
| pink cheeks. rosy lips. bright eyes, n
! table set with gold and silver. 81 the
words, Little goat. little table arise
| or their equivalent in a moderniZed YER
sion, from below appears a sumptuous
| repast, to disappear again when the APP
petite of the beautiful princess is salts
| he'd. 1t has all the appearance of the
| fairy tale, but it isn't
Life Sometimes Rocky.
Life for some of the fairy tale heroines
of modern days is not all champagne
! and waters. The amount of money that
| this one handles, from the standpoint OF
the ordinary woman. is large. Relative
! ly, according to the position she holds,
| 1t is pitifully small. To dress on that
| income requires tact and management.
| n certain number of gowns she gets
every season abroad or of smart mo-
| diste, but further than that she must
rely upon the skill of her maid and her
tailor is a quiet little man of moderate
! prices. She has the income of one piece
of real estate for her pocket money and
! the amount fuctuates with conditions
But the sum is always small for wom-
| an in her position: she always feels the
| pressure of the need of money. and the
only reason for it is the righteousness
/ of her husband.
There is another story on similar lines.
but little lower i'll the circle of wealth.
| The husband is wealthy Wall street
| man. who spends money freely but sees
| hnt wifi Nn4 ~N,.,x-
| She has an allowance of so a week for
pocket money and general expenses, and
| she is allowed no extras aside from it.
She cannot order anything at the hotel,
aside from the things which so into the
regular bill, or if she does she must nav
tor it from her weekly allowance. She
| cannot be generous even with things
of her husbands ordering. for the hus-
| band looks well to the details of their
| daily life. The wife. sending as a little
gift an apple to one friend by another.
| one day said:
He Counts the Oranges.
Il should like to send an orange. but
my husband counts the oranges
| There is a note of absurditv in re-
counting the woes of the woman with
$40 week for pocket money. and of
another who may not have more than
three or four imported gowns in a sea-
son. 1t sounds like tale of How to
be unhappy on $1,O00,O00 or $4,000 a
| year" Why should a woman be I'M
happy with pin money which would sup
port n working family or mourn for a
| lack of gowns when she spends for her
wardrobe enough annually to support a
small orphan asylum? But joys and sor-
rows are relative. and there is not a
doubt that these women are more I'M
happy than others whose actual needs
are urgent.
There are other things which might be
| considered in the circumstances--wher
| some of the money goes which does not
come to the wives, and who is TO blame
for the conditions-but that is aside from
the point. There are marked cases where
the woman does not receive from her
| husband the money to which from his
circumstances and manner of lie she is
entitled.
A little dressmaker. who having once
had a generous husband. happy home
and plenty of money at her disposal los
ing them, has much sorrow. says that
she has become reconciled to what she
had considered her most unhappy lot BY
seeing the trying conditions under which
SO many women live IN homes of wealth.
her former friends and friends of their
friends among whom she works. They
have everything that money can give in
the way of clothes, food. furnishing for
their houses. provision for servants. and
entertainments. everything-but no ready
money. Their servants have more money
than they. They can buy anything that
can be bought and charged in the shops.
but they cannot buy anything that de-
mands ready money, and they are I'M
happily dependent.
Where Is That IS Cents?
MY dear" says one only too kind
husband in the way of everything but
money, when his wife asks for a fresh
supply of that where Is that last -
cents that l gave your
That is an actual case, as true as the
one of the countryman who hands his
wife out money when she is going TO
make a few purchases at the country
store, and when she returns. having spent
So of the 40 cents he has given her, asks
for and takes back the cents change.
\ woman in a large town up State
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