Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1892 — Woman’s Thrift. [ARTICLE]

Woman’s Thrift.

“If men were as economical in their social relations as women are we would not be such a nation of spendthrifts,” said T. B. Bose, of Minneapolis, at the Lindell. “1 was impressed with the force of this idea to-day by an observation begun in a cable car and pursued through a drygoods establishment and a restaurant. I saw two ladies chatting together intimately on a car, and when the conductor approached them to collect the fares one of them had no change. The other offered to pay for her companion's ride, but the latter wouldn’t submit to the proposition. Instead she borrowed a nickel from her friend, Remarking as she did so that she would break a bill as soon as she got down town and repay her. My curiosity was excited to see if women really dealt that way with one another, so I followed the two after they got off the car. They flrsj entered a drygoods store, where the borrower made a small purchase and as soon as she got her change she handed her friend five cents, which was leceived without the slightest protest. Then they went into a resto get lunch. Each gave separate orders and the bill of each amounted to thirty cents. They marched up to the cashier and each paid her own bill. Now, these are small transactions, but they are indicative of the difference in the character of men and women. Had the objects of my observations been men instead of women, the man who offered to borrow a nickel for car fare would have insulted the other, and one of them would have ordered that dinner for both and paid the bill, which, I may as well say, would have amounted to dollars instead of cents.” —St. Louis Globe-Democrat.