El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-10-05
Dorothy Dir e.: *' 5 :;;' % a;

to their husbands to invest as they
please, or go into business on, and
practically every servant girl, or shop
girl who has saved up, by dtnt of he
roic Self-denial, a hundred or two dol
lars, turns it over to the man she mar
ries without a question, on ner wedding
day. They give their all, and mil
lionaire can do no more.
We think, and with good reason, that
a man is a fit candidate for the bug
house when he voluntarily SurrenderS
to another his pocketbook, for it is the
hand that holds the purse that rules
the hearth Between the financially
independent and the financially de-
pendent is always the difference pc
tween master and slave.
= This being enc of the fixed laws or
society, is not the woman who voiun-
tarily turns over her handbook to her
husband just as loony as he would be
to do the same thing? Unquestionably.
No man, no matter how little sordld
he is, ever treats a woman who has
money of her own just as he does the
one who hasn't a penny to bless her-
self with, and who is absolutely bound
to put up with his vagarles because
he stands to her in the place of Prov
idence. 1t keeps a husband or wire
on his or her good behavior TO know
that the party of the other part mas
got the price of ticket to Reno In MS
or her clothes, and that he or she
doesn't have to stand things If they
are made too oppressive.
What an idiot, you say, man must
be who deliberately puts himself Where
he has to go to mis- wife and ask her for
money for his cigars What a hum1lla-
ton to him, Is not woman who gives
away her money to her husband so that
she has to go and ask him for new
hat in equally as ridiculous and SHY a
position? Wouldn't it be far more d1gnl-
fled, far more sensible, for her to keep
are those which least mt him Tor haho-
her own millinery?
The POcketbOOk and Love.
Everybody agrees that it is foolish
for a man to give away his entire for
TO his wife and trust her to be gener-
Gus with him, but a great many peopie
have the idea that it is sweet ana CON
fiding. and shows a woman's CONT
dence in her husband for her to hand
over all that she has to him. In reallly'
it is as idiotic in the one case as the
other. because the best of men are
often the worst financiers, and the very
traits which make a man most 4ovaoIe
are those which less fit him for hand
ling money
There is also this to be said:
That no woman who really loves
man holds him up for his
roll and takes it away from
him. She would not let MIN put hlm-
self in the false position of being de-
pendent upon her. Nor would any man
who truly loved a woman take from her
her last dollar Whatever money she
had. be it little or much, he would waht
settled on her in some safe way, so that
he might know that she would be Sc
cured against want, no matter Wha'
happened to mis- business enterprises
There is an old saying that most Of US
have proven in our own experiences to
be sadly true, and that Is that II yo''
iend money to your friend you lose
friend and money both This is equal
" applicable to financial transactions
between husband and wife. and when
either your husband or your wife takes
your pocketbook you are mighty apt
to lose your love with it,