Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1908-12-29
, HUSBANDS AND HOUSEHOLD
tSan Francisco Examiner

A Judge In one of our Western
States, very properly refusing to
punish woman for taking money
from her husbands pocket. told the
husband few things that are worth
remembering by all married men OF
that kind.
at is you" he said, who are to
blame. Treat your wife honestly,
give her what money she needs, and
has a right to expect and the sane
tity of your pocketbook Will be re-
spected. There are too many men
like you. They think they are the
custodians of the family property,
and unless their wives beg or weep,
money is doled out to them in quar-
tiers and fifty-cent pieces, or not at
all. Never come into my courtroom
with such silly complaint again.
We regret to say that this sort of
an admonition will prove useless to
the majority of married men. Pulled
up with foolish vanity because they
belong to what they call the "stron-
ger SEX" they think there is some
| magic within them which enables
them to make few dollars every
week in salary or in their business.
They surround this matter with
solemn secrecy. Insisting upon know
ing all the details of the household
management, and complaining loftily
about them, they refuse to talk of
their work or their business with
their wives, and feed their vanity by
forcing the really superior member
of the household to go on her knees
for the money she must have to keep
herself and her children from starry
ing.
As q matter of fact, women are far
superior to men in managing the
complicated business of running a
household. And instead of going to
court to safeguard his pocketbook, so
that he may spend its contents play
ing poker or being a good fellow, the
average man would be much better
off II he turned all his money over to
his wife.
A wife-if she Is also a mother
may be trusted to save money, q
thing that can be said of few men.
In her is the mother instinct.
!. which bids her to care for her chill
t drep. and provide for their future.
e Any woman who has been married
to a man for the space of year has
S taken his measure. And IL he is the
sort of a man who parcels out lit
tie household money now and then,
d letting go of II as If 1t had been am
l. putated from his heart, she knows
e that 1t is upon her. and not upon
h him. that the children must depend
II for their education and their start In
the world
q Among men spendthrifts are com
u mon, among women they are rare
Almost any woman wage-earner will
\ have savings at the end of the yeal
d ic she needs. Ask any receiving tel
II Ter in savings bank who are the
most frequent visitors.
Give a woman responsibility ant
> she will prove worthy of 1t. Give i
% to man. even though it is the Sc
> rious responsibility of providing TO
a wife and children, 1t more Otter
than not slips from him like waite
from a ducks back.
II is true that many petted, spoil
ed childless wives will make none
disappear faster than most men cal
earn 1t. But in comparison with tn
many overworked. thoughtful, troub
led mothers, such women are ridicu
lousy few.
1t is a grave mistake to think tina
women know nothing of the value q
money, or that they know nothing G
business. The man who talks owe
his business with his wife, not onl
does his duty, for she is as much cor
" cerned in 1t as he is. but he is likel
N to get profitable advice and sugge.
~ tons.
10 A human being who can maste
the arts of cookery, Housekeeping
" the manufacture of clothing for bi
N bies and half-grown children, til
laundering of washable garment
DO the first aid" in all sicknesses, ii
supervision of help" OF she
w lucky enough to have any, the pre-
ervation OF peace among natural
warning youngsters, and the plaza
ing of Il peevish creature called hu
band-who is always ready wit
complaints and seldom with prais
such a human being is pretty we
fitted to understand any business {
earth, from the sale of potatoes I
TO the administration of the affai
of the Steel Trust.
The superior" husband who o.