The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-09-03
Learning to Spend.

A ! first with her so a week Edith
~ fcrrol was as happy as a child
with an interesting new toy To
a woman who has perhaps earned a
comfortable salary and grown accus-
toned to her own purse and her own
uncriticsed Spendlugs the allowance
John Fcrrol made his wife would not
seem great Nor did 1t seem even
adequate to woman like Lillian Blake
lii was the type OF American wife that
makes Europeans gasp and say 1T is
women, not men, who run that country
American husbands are slaves"
Lii was Just the opposite OF Edith
Ferrol. lii Blake controlled her hus-
bands earnings, absorbing the major
part herself while he lived on the
crumbs For nine years Edith Fcrrol
had got along somehow ON financial
scraps, not even knowing how much
her husband actually earned or how
much he saved.
Now she felt rich' Also. she felt
secure She had become a little
frightened at John, recent profits in
Wall street Like most people she
feared whatever She could not un-
der,tand The so allowance. how
ever, came out OF Johns salary
was probably about half OF IT, Edith
ligured-and was not contingent on
the rise OF Bonanza Copper
A dozen times a day she rrmcm-
berrd with cyer-ircsh relief and hap
pneSS that she should not have to
ask John any more for money She
liked TO think OF her allowance as a
salary tangible, If inadequate
return for her services, as John had
| for his Woman's leaSt-rewardcd labor
the management ot homo wa, mo- long
er a lcrc thanklcss rob Woman
most humIlating task that Of asking
a man for money wa, hers no more
But with her new satisfaction cam,
the responsibility Of learning TO spend
| She had no more charge accounts but
/ paid cash l1 the grocer and butcher
/ This brought her TO a closer .callzatidr
of the buyrug power OF money than ever
| before Formerly when certain article
of food were terribly high She haD
soothcd her worry By having then
. charged and trusted 20 luck and John
| inooI Wlen ihc nus came I'D NoN
'oc ha0 io go aII iN' paying 'N'
prices terrified her.
Carefully Edith apporlioncd her SO
F. $40 tor the table and $40 tor cIothc.
for herself and the children But witt
butter al ~ cent, a pound and com
mon vegetable like onions selling h'
weight instead of bulk 'hc $40 allo,
mcDt soon fell short
"Thc h,gh cos, a.af mn. .ul, af.'
tine grocer assured Nrr ,yhrn She prn
tested af hr, .rl..r ui N cent, , uyar,
for po,atur. "Ir. frr war doe, II
You can bny American sppds i'm on.
don rhc,prr TODAY ,b,n Won can hu,
EN- here Same with canned GOOD,
IIt ainl us retailer. fault The mar
kcl, short voc can't rr the stuff r..
all going abroad"
The bp,ahc. echoed the .,ar. wine.
Edith OUTRAGED ,r having }5 cent, a
Mound lnr steak .vhr.n ,rc man refused
10 Trim o.. d. hone and IA, decline,
lo buy
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