The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-05-19
Let Your Wife Save Your Money
SHE Isn't Good Fellow, and She Never Wants To Be
One of the Boys"

The whose pay day Saturday is usually wondering
Monday morning why he has little to carry him through
the week.
he married man. this editorial is for him. If he is
not married he probably will be day. and we are writing
this for HIM also
And every woman who is wife expects to be wife
may find here few suggestions she can make use Of the
next time she gets into conversation about the family
finances
The man who working for wages or for salary has
FIXED AMOUNT Of money upon which he must maintain his
family
not be large amount he at least knows exactly
what it is and with reasonable he could LIVE WITHIN
IT.
But the average man is not money saver
The old customs Of being good fellow and lone Of the
boys" have strong hold on him.
The money he carrying in his clothes suggests to him the
interesting possibility Of buying things with fittings that he
doesn't need.
He has many foolish notions about keeping his end up
ana spending as much the next fellow and by the time
ne has INDUCED those notions the weeks pay has dVnded
aamingy and he hands out what is left his wife with
hangdog face and promises to do better next week
You must remember that we are talking about THE
AVERAGE MAN.
Here and there husbands who know what to do with
their salaries, who apportion them out wisely and
JUSTLY giving their wives and children their full share
and saving SOMETHING from every dollar that is spent
Unhappily men like this are in the minority They
serve only as examples prove the general rule prov
dence and waeuness among who responsible for
the future Of their wives and children
In every family the question Of MONEY the one subject
that makes trouble.
Day by day the wife sees her husband sell his wears to
another man and GET NOTHING FOR THEM BUT HIS
LIVING.
Night after night she wonders what she is going to do when
she old and her husband DID, and his time now command
ing fair price, is worth nothing to anybody
And yet when she suggests that she be allowed handle
hy extravagant that she knows nothing about business
ana consequently would only squander what he has given
and get results from it.
The exact reverse Of this is true.
tits the wife who most directly interested in her home and
n children 1t is she who first speaks Of the hope that her
husband may have home of his day. is she who
sees ne VISIONS OF her children growing up around her in
the world to be useful citizens.
Her MOTHER LOVE far deeper than the pride her us
band has in his children He would like house. that
he might point out his friends as tribute to his
ability SHE wants to shelter her children and to give them
ROOF when she is no longer able to protect them
However extravagant woman may be, however she may
SAVE IT. ~ "-O O---'
No necessity to be good fellow or one Of the boys moves
her to frtter away the money that ought going into
savings bank or better still into HOME.
She knows the exact needs Of the household and Under
how much for meats rent the clothes for the children the %
Cdenta doctors BILL and the other necessities of the
hold SO that LITTLE MAY BE LEFT AT THE END OF
Of course she could SPEND the money Won ever becos
possessed Of gigantic you will find that vour wife
Knows how to SPEND it well how to save it. but her
for her children will be greater than thoughts
Tor herself and she will save as long she MUST.
woman's life is long self sacrifice She spends az
much time taking the trouble Of others her a shoulders
as her husband does getting rid Of the troubles that rest on his
And because she thinks and plans and works for Others She
soon learns to money she learns dozen or
trades she must master in order to be good mother
- II you can't save your money GIVE YOUR SALARY TO
YOUR WFEtake it home to her before you spend nanny
of it, FN'
make. ~ F'''O''