Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1905-08-03

] don't care now muCn or now little
money you make. want you to un
dcrstnnd that there's only one place in
the world where you can live happy
life. and that's inside your income. 4
family that's living beyond its means
is simply a business that's losing mon.
ey, and it's bound to 80 to smash. And
to keep safe distance ahead of the
sheriff you've got to make your wife
help. More men go broke through bad
management at home than at the Of
flee. And l 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 Mt the corner grocery
and to save change toward pair Of
diamond earrings. These fellows would
plant n tin can and kick because they
didn't get a case Of tomatoes.
OF course some women put their
husbands salaries on their backs in
stead Of his ribs. but there are heap
more men who burn up their wives
new sealskin sacks in two bit cigars
Because n mans good provider 1t
doesn't always mean that he's good
husband: it may mean that he's hog.
And when there's 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 a business meeting and talk to
your wife quite as frankly as you
would to man whom you'd taken In
to partnership. Tell her just what
your salary is and then lay II out be-
tween you-so much for Joint OK
penses, the house and the housekeep-
ing, so much for her expenses. so
much for yours and so much to be
saved. That last IL the one item on
which you can't afford to economize.
It's the surplus and undivided profits
account Of your business. and until
the concern accumulates big one It
isn't safe to move into offices on Easy
street.
A lot of fool fathers only give their
fool daughters liberal education in
spending. and it's pretty hard to teach
those women the real facts about
earning and saving. but it's got to be
done unless you want 10 be the fool
husband Of a fool wife. These girls
have an idea that men get money by
going to a benevolent old party be-
hind some brass bars and showing a
check Mt him and telling him that they
want 1t in ffties 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 q dog for ten hours day through
six long days and that the cashier
handed 1t out with an expression as
II you were robbing the cash drawer
Of an orphan asylum. Make her uu.
derstand that while those that have
get. when they present . check. those
that haven't get 1t In the neck Ex-
plain that the benevolent old party Is
only on duty when papa's daughter
has q papa that Bradstreet rates IA.
and that when papa's daughters hus
band presents Ave dollar check with
a ten cent overdraft he's received by
low browed 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 II you have to grab for your
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