HER OWN MONEY.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1995, 28 February 1914, Page 10

HER OWN MONEY.

■Xivo legal decisions of great iiiteteft to Wttineu have besit, repoticd during, $ho last week (states tjre SMb.ourna "Aipis"). One was the decis'-on of.-a Judge'm. our i»11 Courts, to the effect that it. wbiUa'u wlio manages to s.ayo out 1 of her litiEi'sekeep.i.l% money i.s entitled to regard the savings is iter own property. This would lioty mit'rraily, justify a housewife in pinching and saving for her own prolit. I imagine that it a husband could provo tl'ia.t the houso had. been run with undue parsimony, and that, no had not meekly accepted tho condition of affairs, the . position iv'oul.Gl he .liiateri'ally''altered. Tho other decision was an English one. A. father was being sued for a pioderato bill incurred by his daughters ipf clothes. No allowance was mado to the daughters ■ for tho purpose of replenishing their wardrobes, and the Judge held that tins daughters were entitled to suppose that their father would meet their bills. 11l giving his decision, he deprecated such' a "sloppy'' fashion of arranging tho business affairs of a household, and said; (bat the only sensible plan lor a man to adopt was to givo his daughters 911, allowance. ' limes are certainly changing—and wo with them, Hut the fact remains that in the majority of cases tho daughters, who. aro not wage-earn-e'rs, are still- dependent i'or their clothes en. what they or their mother can ''wheedle out of father." This, fact puis UlO girls who stay at homo to help. in tho housekeeping in an unfair position as compared with those w'ho earn money for themselves. Very often the homo girl works far harder than tlio others, hut is loss well dressed, and has fewer opportunities' of The result is that most girls refuse to stay at Homo, even when there is 11.0- ixsal tieeossit.y to go out and earn tlieir living, ( llor. who look upon the homo as tho ' proper "sphere" ,of women, '.should lay. tfiis matter is ohcayt. I know maiiy viien who spend a good deal on their own clothes and pleasure, who expect their dß.ugiit.ets or 'their sisters, dr idvwi wives, to. run their homes with 110 other return than their mere, bread and keep. Most oi' tlliem, of course, are merely though!less- or selfish; but they aro largo'lv rosponsible- for tho break-til) of liornes.- •