Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-07-20
SPE|vDTHR|FT WIFE
! SCORED BY. WRITER
BY SOPHIE IRENE LOEB


NEW YORK.-"Every public
school ought to have a course for ev-
cry girl on How to Spend Money
Without Husband This is the
advice Of man who was spent out
Of his home by his wife, Of whom
the husband said: "She hasn't the
remotest idea of the value of dol
lar" ',-e>t& ~ is5.t.:
Some women regard a husband as
regular department store, includ-
ing a bank" he concluded in dis
gust.
And now he is in the Domestic
Relations court trying to fix it some
way SO that there can be a limit to
his wife's spending. "F'or she not
only spent ALL my. money, but me in
the bargain" he walls. ~
And there must be considerable
truth in what this man says, for the
majority Of cases that come into this
court. are due to money troubles or
Arguments on the filthy lucre."
honestly believe that if the
truth were known a very large pro-
portion of the marriage failures
might well be traced to this quarrel
ing with ones .pocketbook.
The story of this particular man Is
not unlike many others. The girl
was married young, shortly after
|leavingf school, and; had little or no
experience in the process Of saving.
Marriage to her meant freedom
freedom from the narrow confines of
her famiiy-freedom to get things Of
which her mother did not approve.
First Purchases
Her hope was that if she got into
her own home she could do as she
she had long craVed were the first
things she bought with her hus-
bands money. And, Of course, be-
ing in love with her he naturally
wanted to indulge her in every within,
especially at the beginning Of things.
This young woman really had the
wrong view of marriage. OF course
she would have been astonished If
you had told her that she did not
really love her husband. She did
love him, but she loved herself more.
The idea of joint partnership was
altogether lost on her. The big
thing in her life was to get things
get things she wanted. And again,
she would have been surprised had
you told her that she was not getting
them for her husband but for her.
self. In truth, anything rarely came
into the house for the sole use of him
who provided it all, and times with
out number he went without things
| In order that Lola might have some
new gew-gaw for which she had
taken fancy.
"She spent money like drunken
sailor" her husband told me, land
indeed she was drunk" in a way
drunk with the position of being her
own boss apd no one to say her nay.
"She had never earned a dollar"
was her husbands complaint, land
therefore did not understand the
struggle and the sweat that I went
through to get it, and I could not
seem to teach her." he regretted.
when would demonstrate with
her the least bit was called 'stingy'
and Il did not love her. and then
she would begin to cry.
The Tyranny
"Oh the tyranny of tears! I Just
| emptied my pockets at the first fall
of them and faced another day OF
| hard work. But just as constant
| dropping will wear away a stone,
| soon began to get more stoical when
she turned on the pearly drops from
| her eyes, and learned to have the
courage to say no.
Alas my bravado was of no avail.
| We made number Of friends and
we had to copy what they did, and
When l couldn't reach it we had to
go it on the installment plan. Be-
fore knew it was head over heels
in debt, and finally it scanned to me
that the love of my life was a leech
rather than a wife,
| doubt if this couple will ever
come together again, since this
young woman wasn't started in the
way she should CO." And this much
{ n be said of the business woman,
that she makes a much better home
manager than the girl who has new
er' done anything but wait for mar
rlage as a means of gold-digging
Hers is the unwritten law of "get
all you can and look for more
Then there is the wife who wants
| to be entertained all the time. She
must be taken out and fed and
amused and clothed properly for the
occasion. She always lives up to the
Hast payment on the Victrola; and
when Hard Times comes knocking al
the door she doesn't know how to
greet him with grace.
/ oh, yes, there is always the happy
medium. Money is to spend, but how
to do it is the big question. If
every pay envelope could but speak
It would cry: "Spend me little. spend
me long!"