YOUR HUSBAND'S MONEY.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1082, 22 March 1911, Page 9

YOUR HUSBAND'S MONEY.

A WOMAN'S LETTER. A correspondent sends the following letter dealing with !> subject that has besn the cause of considerable discussion in England, and which Lady MacLaren, in her Women's Charter (brought forward in the House of Parliament in Juno last by her husband), has endeavoured to remedy. The letter reads:— "With all my worldly goods I thee endow." I lmve just come back from a wedding where the happy bridegroom iias uttered the above words, and I suppose the happy brido believes he will do so. Perhaps he will; but, if so, he will bo an exception to the general run of men. I wonder if his bride will have to ask him for money to buy a, stamp to post her first letter home while on their honeymoon, and will he say, as most men do when their wives ask for money: "How much do you want? Will .£1 do you, as I am rather short this week?" and then look as if he was very ill-used, although he had so lately had said: "With all my worldly goods I thee endow." I am quite sure that there would be very many more happy, homes and contented wives if their husbands would keep the above promise. . They are ready enough to remind their wives of their promise "to obey," and expect them to do so. A woman has a right to a full share in her husband's "worldly'goods," and many a woman's life is made much harder by. having, in a manner, to l;ex for what she has a just right to. Often have I heard a tired mother say: "I wish I had a little money of my own," when her husband has.a. good salary, and never goes without his pipe and other comforts; He thinks that all that his wife needs is enough to pay the household bill, upon which, by the way, he keeps a sharp eye. Let men remember how hard it is for a young woman who has always had Docket money of her own to do what she likes with—how hard it is for her to bo asked: "What did yon do with that Inst pound which I gave your" Let men be more thoughtful and remember their promiss made in the marriage service and I am sure that there will be more happy and contented wives. I should like to hear the opinion of other women on this subject as there are many much better able to express their views than I am.— I am, etc.. ONE OF THE DISAPPOINTED WIVES.