The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-18
ONE WOMAN TO ANOTHER
Money Makes Trouble in the House Wife Should Have Separate Al- lOwance-Women Run the
 House Purse Better

While, in no way favoring woman suffrage, am a strong exponent of the married woman's independence, in one particular at least.
 To my mind there is nothing that makes a woman feel so small as to have to continually ask her husband for money necessary to meet the 5nl- n1erouS small bills of the household, or amounts required when she goes shopping or travelling.
 The really just husband will see at the very beginning of his married life that his wife has her separate purse and an allowance, whether it be large or small. This private. individual money. she should be privileged to spend without question, using it just as freely as the man used his money if he wants to buy baseball. tickets or cigarss~ ,5..4 .sat
 Tn the matter of a household allow ance. s wife should make a monthly
 Tnis lis only fair to the househoId providef, who can thus see what things cost, and perhaps, if he be the better hnancier of the two, may sug- gest where retrenchment could be made In all probability however this will not be .necessarys for the great majority of women are better man agers. where it comes to running A house.. than man. ,z
 A stimulus to economy is for the husband to tell the wife she can have within the limit of the monthly allow
 Some men are afraid to do this, &hanlxfnR their wives win starve thems But the husband, who has the right kind Of wife, will find that this plan works wonderfully well.
 In the matter of dress alloWa1ee also, man who can afford it ought to put in the bank the first of every year A certain sum for this purposei In his wffe'e name. Then every time she needed a veM or new shoes, she does not have to come to him like began asking for aims
 Fnman prefers the spending of her own money, to having dress naak- era and miiliners paid by her hns- bands checks
 One woman, whose wealthy husband disappF0ved of her having cash to hAndie. though perfectly willing to pay exorbftart bills of her making, be- came desperate oyer this situation. To furnish herself with a few dollars for the little things 0 woman loves to buy she had extra amounts added To the bills, borrowing, the cash from modistes and others who received ner husbands cheeks.
 This worked so easily at first that she. arew reckless, and borrowed <so much from certain ladies tailor that her husband refused to pay a bill that even in his masculine blindness he recognized as excessive. f
 Then came the explosion and conse- ouent disclosure.
 How much better it would have been for this woman to have received a smaller amount in actual cash, which she would have understood had to buy all her hats, gowns. WTaps ana incidentals.
 She would have done it too,' as every woman will who fully appreciates that she Is responsibie for the expenditure of any appropriations.
 There are undeniably more rows in married life over the money question than from any other cause. The best way to eliminate these disturbarlces and to maIe a woman feel that she is d personality instead of a cipher is for the husband and wife to carry sepa- rate purses, each proportioned in ac- cordanee with the deinands to be made upon 1t, and the income of the provider who furnishes both.
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