Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-11-18
IMPORTANT POINT IN LAW. How One Woman Saved All Her Mar. ried Life Only to Lose If in End.

1 Where is the woman who does not
 consider the housekeeping money to
 be quite her Own?-mOre particularly
 any portion of it she can save after
 defraying the expenses of the house.
 hold. And yet less than a month
 ago it was decided in a country court
 that if wife could save anything out
 of the housekeeping money, such say
 ings belonged legally to the husband: :
 a wife had no right to save and invest
 any money given to her by her hus-
 band unless he gave her permission to
 do so.
 This decision is making many wo-
 men very uneasy. The wife that goes
 out to work or earns money at home
 may feel secure. She may neglect her
 family or cost her husband more to
 keep the house going by paying for g
 servant in order that she may make
 money, but her earnings are absolute
 ly her own. Her husband cannot claim
 penny. But the thrifty wife who keeps her family in comfort and yet manages to put by a few dollars a month is liable at any moment to have her little nest egg taken by hec hus- band as his right
 No self respecting wife cares to feel that she is an unpaid domestic. and entitled only to mere board and lodg- ing. What circumstances permit wife should always have something for herself over and above the house. keeping money. If the family exche- quer is not liberal enough for this. any little she could save should be hers.
 The position of married women still leaves much 10 he desired X single woman is less hampered in the ac. quisition and disposal of property than is she who has entered the bonds of wedlock. The following is a true story. and is probably not the only case which has occurred.
 A man earned q fair salary as a | clerk. His wife kept q boarding house which provided a comfortable home and maintained the pair in tolerably | easy circumstances. The man never gave his wife any money. but told her that he was banking his salary every month as provision against old age. This went on for twenty years. The wife. believing in her husband. was content with the arrangement. Rut when he died she discovered that the money supposed to he in the bank had gone to the support of another. As house and furniture had been bought in his name. though with money really Bo1 1.,- Ea ,,-sfz h. | will directing that everything should be sold.
 Had she been single the profits af her labor would have been her swn. but being married the law cOuEl net her right to them or nnabIa Ter to set aside the iniquitouS will of ler lord and master It must he ad- nitted that eases like this are rot common. hut it serves as an example f the law in regard to marrirI vO- nrn
 There are thousands of men who do lOt trouble themselves as to what the i rife does with housekeeping 1sonpr Is long as she does the hest Sha can Tith it for the family. The law might TIth advantage give raIfes tO tltp nan vhose wife stints her hOuscnGH in q -slrF ta sreld more on sirrzs f1r her elf fhan he oT she can afo-si. ts1fF rha ' rugal wife should Ie aTlnvrptf s0 =tist r' tIIs oil tcIIars anT rents vvff4 an ! l ssT euus~icnOp- FO-tunatcIv -hp [ i nrlinila TG-iT,I is sq cDnstFfuts5 that [ h. iezsaI edo of a r.s-sff-7 hsS m interest for her: ansi auosher Oint in her favor fs that 2 man ran- ot SOmVeI his wife to give TIn her sviRgS unless be first makes arnsses- ' ion to the rs1-rf- Feu uga1 have I nerve for Tthis-PhTTafasrs,sl nguirpT