The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-29
Save Or Spend; A Delicate
 Question
By SOPHIE IRENE LOEB
 Copyright, 1924.)

ll (COpvrlgnt, 1SZ4. SA A WOMAN told me her sad story oi AA how she lost her husband, anG it is the way many a wife loses sd He made his money very fast and khe was one of the old-fashioned kind of Romen who always schemed and saved &nd to spend a dollar seemed crime $ to her.
 They had come from small town Into the big city and, of course, it had its attractions and distractions. The man made many business friends and he met their wives and families-people who had always lived in big place.
 He was invited out often with these people to go to dinners. theatres, etc, and it was with great difficulty that he coilld get his wife away from the kitchen stkve and the two children, although they had help to take care of them.
 Made Life Miserable
 Whenever he finally did persuade her to go out to a restaurant for an occasional meal she made life miserable for him by trying to save money dur ing the whole party-that is, she chose the cheapest things on the menu; and when they had the children along she would pay too much attention to them, 60 that her husband began to go out with friends rather than with his fam fly.
 She thought she was helping him by her economic tendencies, but to make long story short, she woke to find that her husband had made other friends who would spend his money. She was looking ahead in the hope that the children would have something" de- nying herself the good times and pleas ures that her husband seemed to seek along with his success as a business man.
 In the end, she gained nothing and lost her husband.
 They are separated now. He has settled a certain amount on her with parting, "You go your way; I go mine.''
 And there are many foolish wives like this. If a woman knows that her hus- band can afford pleasures, and wants them, she makes the mistake of her life in not being his partner in play as well as in work.
 While one may admire the woman who has the sense to save and put away for the rainy day." yet there is such "a thing as overdoing it. The rainy day may find her with too many umbrellas ,stored up-and small chance to use them.
 The Other Extreme
 Of course, there is always the spend- thrift type of woman who knows noth- ing about her husbands affairs and blindly makes bills for him all the time. She is the other extreme, she spends cbn hoe ha s. ha &5Ne that runs accounts in all the stores because it is so easy to charge it." She rarely knows where the money is com ing from-and cares less. When her husband reproaches her for it, she us- uaily resorts to a tyranny of tears, and then rather than continue the ordeal, he says nothing and tries to meet the expense.
 This kind of woman always has a reckoning some day. It usually turns Asut that her husband either goes bank Rpt or he loses his job and then she
 reduced to penury. Then it is in
 hafrd for her to make ends meet,
 Ask she doesn't have the ready cash
 Ah she is accustomed. As re-
 saakes her husbands life mis-
 pendthrift type is, of course, a
 al worse than she who saves too
 eh. Every woman may well reflect
 this matter of spending and saving. here is always happy medium. Per hps there is no easier way to get trther away from husband than to et other people have the good times with him while his wife remains his saving bank. It is the wise wife who is her husbands best "good fellow"