Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-04
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Why We Quarrelled
The Husband Win the Unnethodicol
Wife Tells His Story
tDy Virginia Terhunc vnn dc Water,

My wifo and l quurrcllcd over her
lack OF system and OF business like
habits. Being man, and a business
man. 1 must be exact and prompt NV
WIG mas never learned that the world
MI not await her convenience. nor
mat ngures and facts can not be
moulded to suit her whlms.
Il love her dearly She is , laval,
and ioVable creature-dainty. pretty
"hectionate. Yet She can not under.
stand how much her faults annoy me
one was not ON time on the day OF
our marriage. reached the church
Will my best man five minutes before
the hour set for the ceremony. Twenty
minutes later my bride and her attend
ants arrived.
ricdly.
"oh. nothing in particular" she muir.
INJURED. There was no need of heinz
exactly on time. y prompt wedding is
unlucky" she added, with her sweet
smile.
or course. smiled back. Later. the
maid OF honor told me that she and tho
other girls had had fits Of nervous
ness over Margarets hardness
But MadSc wasn't disturbed, not a
biz" she said 1T is wonderful TO have
such a disposition She won't worry
over little things"
Perhaps such a disposition is wonder
full for Its possessor, but 1t is madden
ing for husband. Even on our wed.
ding trip lost my temper with my
vic as she loitcrcd over her dressing
for some dinner To which we had been
invited.
MaKnifyInE Tribes.
You make too much of tribes" She
would chide when glanced at my
watch and told her to hurry Il little
"But." | would sometimes remind her
our hostess's dinner hour is $50. II s
now 7:c5 and We have at leas; fifteen
minutes drive ahead OF u.s.
"But dinner doesn't start on schedule
time. like train, she would say. Jest
!nGly. perhaps the cook viii! he glad
: of few minutes grace"
Or course she has the same happy
faculty OF overlooking other peoples
unpunctuality. have never seen her
annoyed because one Of her guests has
been late.
Everybody is late sometime" she
viii remark by way OF excuse.
Everybody should not be- | alway.
ret"rt. But she only shrugs her Shout
dcrs good-naturediy, and let's my re-
mark pass UNDECIDED.
As TO money matters. she is simply
ncorrigible. do not mean that She IS
eNtravagant; She is only inconsequeut
II tell her that She must not pay more
than crtain price for thing she
viii not pas more than that Instead.
she will often dispense entirely with
the thing and Will take the money set
aside for IL and purchase with II sew
eral other objects she happens TO take
q fancy to.
Glow can be busiucss-like and
systematic abou, money" she argued
once when / reprovcd her. II have
never had bank account OF my
own
You Shall have one" promised
her.
Here now was the chance 10 teach
her the value OF money.
II viii put sum in the bank to
your account. and YOU can pay for
everything b. check Would YOU like
that
II The New scheme.
II would love 81" she replied. de-
l!ehted Let's start in soon. shall
wc?"
Three DAYS later ] brought home
her, check books and showed her how
10 use them.
What nuisance. she observed. Ito
make memorandum on each stub OF
every cent spent. Anybody with any
brains ought 10 he able TO remember
just about what she paid to certain
people"
explained that to know just
about what one paid would not do.
and that she must keep track OF every
cent she drew.
1T Is the simplest thing in the
void" I told her. III YOU will only
be exact about your checls and stubs"
\ month later she came TO me in
distress. In her hand letter
from the bank. notifying her that she
had overdrawn her account.
Il can't see how it happened" she
complained I'm sure l haven't begun
TO use up all the money YOU put there.
And I've pu; down on the stubs every
check ] made out"
asked TO he allowed to see her
check book. She had entered tho
amount OF every check drawn. but had
failed in most instances to add up the
amounts OF the checks and to deduct
them from the balance brought for
ward. The results can we'll be imag
ined.
Strengthened the matter out for
her, deposited in the bank Il sum 10
make up the deficit, and we started
out afreSh.
She still has a bank account, but
I am the one who must keep il cor
rect. and must see regularly that her
checkbooks agree with her handbook
such NONSENSE she cXclaims fret
fully when ] tell her She should watch
me do this.
ut bores me to distraction, and am
tired of 1t. ] wish you would let mo
give up this bank mess and you just
hand me out the money that need
as I need #. EXactness is made for