The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1905-02-16

III w. FHONbNtFhs III
/ don't care how much or how little
money you make, want you to un.
derstand that there's only one place In
the world where you can live a happy
life, and that's inside your income. \
family that's living beyond its means
is simply business that's losing mon.
ey, and it's bound to 90 to smash. And
to keep a safe distance ahead of the
sheriff you've got to make your wife
help. More men go broke through bad
management at home than ut the Of
fee. And | might add that a lot OF
men who are used TO getting only one
dollars worth of food for five dol.
lar bill downtown expect their wives
to get five dollars worth of food for II
one dollar bill at the corner grocery
and to save change toward pair Of
diamond earrings. These fellows would
plant tin can and kick because they
didn't get n case of tomatoes.
Of course some women put their
husbands salaries on their backs In.
stend of his ribs. but there are II heap
more men who burn up their wives
new ScalSliin sacks in two bit cigars.
Because mans good prOvidcr II
doesn't always mean that he's good
husband 1t may mean that he's hog.
And when there's q cuss in the family,
and it comes down to betting which,
on general principles the man always
carries my money. | make mistakes
Mt 1t. but It's the only winning sys-
tenn I've ever been able to discover in
games of chance.
You want to end the wedding trip
with Il business meeting ana talk TO
your wife quite as frankly ms you
would to Il man whom you'd taken in
to partnership. Tell her just what
your salary is ana then lay 1t out be.
tween yOu-so much for joint eX-
penscs. the house and the housckeep.
ing, so much for her expenses, so
much for yours and so much to be
saved That last Is the one item on
which you can't afford to cconomlZe.
It's the surplus and undivided profits
uNNoulll vi NOul buNlu'SS, Until
the concern accumuates II big one it
isn't safe to move into offices on Easy
street.
\ lot of fool fathers only give their
fool daughters Il liberal education in
spending, ana it's pretty hard to teach
those women the real facts about
earning and saving. but it's got to he
done unless YOU want to he the fool
husband of II fool wife. These girls
have an idea that men get money by
going to benevolent old party be-
hind some brass bars and showing Il
check at him and telling him that they
want ii in tiftcs and hundreds.
You should take home your salary
in actual money for awhile and eX.
plain that it's all YOU got for sweating
like dog for ten hours Il day through
six long days and that the cashier
handed it out with an expression as
if you were robbing the cash drawer
of an orphan asylum. Make her UNI
derstand that while those that have
get, when they present check, those
that haven't get it in the neck. En-.
plain that the benevolent old party Is
only on duty when papas daughter
has papa that Bradstreet rates IA,
and that when papa's daughters hus
band presents a five dollar check with
ten cent overdraft he's received by
low proved old brute who calls for
the bouncer to put him out Tell her
right at the start the worst about the
butcher, and the grocer, and the ice.
man, and the milkman, and the
plumber, and the gas meter-that they
want their money and that it has to
come out of that little roll of bills.
Then give her enough to pay them,
even If you have to grab for your
lunch from high stool. | used TO
know an old Jew who said that the
man who carved was always fool
or hog, but you've got TO learn not
to divide your salary on either basis.
Make your wife pay cash. \ WOMAN
never really understands money till
she's done that for awhile. I've no.
tiCed that people rarely pay down the
money for foolish purchases; they
charge them. And it's mighty seldom
that woman's eXtravagant unless she
or her husband pays the bills by check.
There's something about counting out
the actual legal tender on the spot that
keeps n woman from really wanting q
lot of things which she thinks she
wants.