Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-07-22
CLEVER WOMEN DESCRIBE
MEANS FOR OBTAINING FUNDS
FORM sTINGY HUSBANDS.
ONE USES DOUBLE ENTRY SET
TLE-EAcH WEEK BASIS IN
HER HOME.

women have contributed their opinions
and experiences to an interesting dis
eussion of The Family Pocketbook in
Good Housekeeping Magazine. Most
Of the women were in favor of the
allowance plan, the vote being three
| to one in favor of it.
Nearly half of the women who re-
piled say that they have to resort to
some sort of subterfuge to get money
for personal expenditures. Here are
| some opinions:
! One woman, who says she has lived
In six states, from Massachusetts to
| Illinois, reports the complaint. very
| general in her circle of acquaintance
that the husband is prone to compel
his wife to ask for all the money she
gets. Unwilling to give up the luxur-
! les of bachelor days she finds a pre-
va1llng cause of this selfishness
Lack of proper education at home
is another source. This woman has
been divorced from her husband He
| is clergyman, she college graduate
The burden of supporting herself and
her children has fallen largely on her.
The welfare of the children, whose en-
tire custody she could obtain by d.
vorce, forced this unwelcomed action
upon her, she says
Touch of Pathos.
There is a touch of pathos in some
OF the confessions. 81 know nothing"
says one woman, "of my husbands
business affairs, although | have al
ways wished that I might | think the
fault is my own. | was tfmid, bash
full girl, and had always earned my
own money and was afraid to ask for
money. If l understood my husband
better l should have got what was
necessary without asking if l might.
1t was Is years before l dared any
thing of the kind"
He has been close always" says
another woman. my husband earns
nearly 5000 month and raves because
I have a telephone, which saves me
hours every week. He is generous in
!uXulies; I have lots of jeweIry, but
seldom a decent dress"
NY husband says a Michigan
woman. has a hobby which is his
worst extravaganza, that of buying
ant que furniture, Sheffield plate and
other things which his income does
not warrant. AS a consequence his
wife has gone without many things,
clothes etc, which one in her station
in life should have.
Il am more and more convinced"
writes an Iowa woman, that the chief
cause of all domestic trouble arises
from one or two causes, or maybe
both. First, men do not think; they
do not realize that women as we'll as
themselves have individual tastes and
desires that they like to crafty with
out having to beg for the money. Sec
ond, in all things the wife is the hus-
hands equal. In the matter of spend
perior."
Happy Partnership.
Here is the description of a happy
partnership in which the husband and
wife seem to get along without much
trouble.
"My husband Is methodical almost
to foolishness. He keeps a double en-
try book, in which each member OF
the family has an account; also the
house, furniture, and I'm sure / don't
know what else. So to please him
and it is really small thing now that
| am accustomed to it keep
house account.
"I'hat is, have a calendar (the
page a week kind, with pencil al
tached to the door of my kitchen cab
.inet, and when l spend any money for
the house jot it down. 1t is second
nature now, no trouble at all. Each
week, now no trouble at ALL Each
week, usually Sunday night after the
family is in bed, we settle up the cash.
He pays me a certain fixed sum a
week to run the house. As fast as we
have found from increase in prices
(some things cost double what they did
six years ago., or increase in family,
that the allowance is too small, it has
been enlarged.
eve have discussed it frankly as
we would problem quite outside our
selves. At present have IS a week
for my family of five. This does not
include milk, ice or gas, but does in
clude a woman one day a week, 80
cents for laundry and the daily paper.
The first of each month the house has
an extra SIS, which I expend in the
groceries for the month q know Just
how much -four, sugar, meal, cereals,
etc. it will take to carry me along. In
the fall I buy canned things by the
dozen, letting other supplies go lit
tie low if necessary This Is also