HUSBANDS, DON’T BE STINGY.

Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 28, 14 October 1893, Page 6

HUSBANDS, DON’T BE STINGY.

There is a type of husband, unfortunately rather common, and very far indeed from the ideal, who begrudges his wife, whatever her character or disposition, every penny she spends, and who has never cheerfully opened out to her his purse, whatever he may have done with the thing he callls his heart. This is a very serious matter, and one which presses heavily on the hoards of many wives. It is hard for a young gixd who may in her father’s house have had pocket-money always to supply her simple needs, to fixxd herself after maxriage penniless having to ask for every coin she requires, aud to explaxxx minutely how and whei'e it is to be spent. I have known a man who reqxxired an absolute accoxxnt of every half-penny gpexxt by his wife, and who took from her change of a shilling he had given her for car fares. We must pray there are few so lost to all sense of gentlemanly feeling, to speak of nothing else ; but it is certain that many sensitive women suffer keenly frem this sort of humiliation, axxd it ought not to be. If a woman be worthy to be trusted with a man’s honour*, she might at least have a little of his gold to spend without having to crave it and answer for it as a servant sent upon an errand counts out the coppers to her master. There are many little nameless trifles a woman wants, many small kindnesses she would do on the impulse of the moment, had she money ixx her purse, and though they xnay sometimes not be altogether wise, she is blessed in the doing and xxobody is the poorer. However small a man’s income there are sux-ely a few odd shillings the wife might have for her

very own, to gratify her harmless little whims and enable her to give at times something of her own. —• Annie S. Swan, in the Home Messenger.