HUSBANDS, DON'T BE STINGY.

Evening Post, Volume XLVI, Issue 19, 22 July 1893, Page 2 (Supplement)

HUSBANDS, DON'T BE STINGY.

There is a type of husband, unfortunately rather common, and very far indeed from the ideal, who bei grudges his wife, whatever her character or disposition, every penny she spends ; and who has never cheerfully i opened out to her his purse, whatever , he may have done with the thing he calls his heart. This is a very serious 1 matter, and one which presses heavily ; on the hearts of many wives. It is hard for a young girl who may in her father's house have had pocket-money always to supply her simple needs, to fiud herself after marriage penniless — having to ask for every coin she requires, and to explain minutely how and where it is to be spent. I have known a man who required an absolute account of every half penny spent 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 Buffer keenly from this sort of humiliation, and 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 in her purse, and, though they may sometimes not be altogether wise, she is blessed in the doing and nobody is the poorer. However small a man's income, there are surely 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.

Boiling water which rises from Artesian wells is to be run through the heating apparatus of houses in Boise oity, Idaho. To fan the face of the patient with leaves taken from the Bible was, in former times, regarded as a very effioient remedy in cases ' of illness. Although the Queen is no lover of Liberal statesmen, Her Majesty admits' that Lord Carrington is the best Lord Chamberlain known at the Court of Viotoria. It is said that a Frenchman has suo- ' ceeded in getting a very good quality of j silk from spiders. In twenty-seven days he obtained more than 4000 yards of silk from a species of spider to be found in Madagascar. ( Broken hearts have boen repaired. ]