The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1906-02-15
FARMERS INSTITUTE.
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uncertain, irregular income. The care
of the purse tends to thriftiness. II
the bread-winners would give the
wifes and daughters fair allowance
for work done. as they do the sons,
the daughter would be better satisfied
to remain in the home to tighten the
mothers labor, and to give the tender
ministrations to the parents that
hired help can never give, and not go
to swell the influx to the city with its
perils.
Helen Gardner says, IA man has
no right to marry woman whom he
cannot trust with money If she is
capable of fulfilling the functions of
wifehood and motherhood, II she s
willing to give up her life for him,
then the least he can do is to make
her an equal partner in his financial
affairs and treat her as SUCH"
There are great.hearted. broad
minded, deep-thinking men who cheer
fully accord women their due, but,
even in the light of this twentieth
century there are good, honorable,
upright men who love their wives,
who vet retain the idea that the sol
emn ceremony Is pledge to share
the joys and sorrows, but not the
pock book, and who make a mental
Observation-Disclosures reservation of
the "with all my worldly goods thee
en- low" of the marriage service. Too
many who still hold "what's yours Is
mine, and what's mines my own" as
their creed
No young girl should marry without
definite understanding. on this point
with her intended husband.
There are varieties many of the
American man and the American
woman, and 1t is difficult to establish
any financial basis as an innexible rule
10 hold good in all cases.
Nothing in the world so humilates
and degrades grown up person as to
keep asking for little driblets of
money.
DR.. Gross says, "The man who does
not give his wife an allowance does
her great injustice aud dwarfs his
own soul. She never ought have to
beg. He never ought to question her
honesty or Judgment. He never ought
to dole out money to his wife as If
she were dependent. Such a woman
summoned up her courage one d ~
and asked her husband If he wouldn't
take her to the theatre with him
Ills eyes widened and he replied In
tones of solemn Indignation, Don't
always tell you what I've seen and
heard when | come home? What
more do you want ?" 1t is not stated
that he permitted her to tell him
what she had heard at the chnrch
service to which she doubtless wen,
unattended.
Scientists have established the
truth of the effect OF certain emo
tions experienced by the mother or
the unborn child. If a proud, sensi
tive woman is made to feel her dcpen
dence on her Lord and Master fol
every penny, or If she takes money
from his pockets unknown to him
may she not thereby make her child &
thief? Does she not send the chile
into the world handicapped by veal
powers of resistance, too timid tt
take his rightful share In life's bat
tie. There are wise men who sa,
such may be prenatal influence.
1t hasIbeen stated that the daughter
of rich men often give little to char
ity, but the humblest wage Garner o.
ten has moreto give, for too frequent
ly the girl with the rich father has nj
money to call her own. She can &,
to the store and get what she wants
charging to her fathers account, bu
of cash she has none.
The writer knows of wife, Away
exquisitely gowned, in whose hom'
we're all comforts, and many of th'
luxuries of life, who often kept ;
letter on the mantel, ready to send L
her mother, for days, because sh'
had no money to pay the postage, ant
unfortunately for her her husban'
did not run an account with Upcl,
Sam.
Sne has known other women to kni
lace or bake cakes and urge thei
ware upon their neighbors for tn,
sake of a little pocket money. Hav
we not all known good women VIII
declined to give small amount o
cash for charity, but who would Civ
, double or threble the value in cak
or other provisions for the churcl
supper, and their own vital energie
and time to obtain the results tha
could so much more easily have beel
obtained by the giving of money, an,
why, because they had not the none
, to give, and the needfuls for the cake
, making could come out of the famil
, larder and the husband be none tn
wiser.
Prof. Peabody, of Harvard Univer
sitv, defines the family relation a
one given us "not to make life easier
but to make 1t better"
: There is need for higher moral de
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