WAGES FOR WIVES
"The women who are marrying now, after a few >ears of is age-earning, are well aware of tho financial disabilities of their position. Maiiy of their mothers married without ever having handled any money which they could icnlly call their own. but tho girl of to-day k>io«s how tamo and trying a taak is the laying out of trust money compared with the freo spending of one's own. She is not likely to work harder than she did at her previous occupation, and find that no salary day comes round, that she may not spend nti} thing on little fads or foolishnesses, on even serious interests, of her own without feeling that she is betraying her husband's trus=t and robbing her household— sho is not likely to discover this, and not ask for a. reason and a remedy. The remedy ahe will probably get, in a measure, even if it is only a change in public opinion, but tho reason will scarcely bo found before the need for it has been forgotten.'"— -Edith Shuckleton, in tho Sunday Chronicle.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 27, 1 February 1913, Page 10
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181WAGES FOR WIVES Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 27, 1 February 1913, Page 10
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