Rensselaer Union and Jasper Republican, Volume 8, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1876 — Economy and the Women. [ARTICLE]

Economy and the Women.

“I dow’t believe,” remarked it gentleman after passing through Washington street of a pleasant afternoon, “that the ladies know that the times we dull and that their husbands are having a bard time to keep their heads above water.’* He was an unmarried man. The fact that ladies can dress as well as they did daring the war at a discount of from forty to fifty per centum from prices then paid must be taken into account But all husbands do not make their financial affairs a topic of conversation at home, and some better-halves know less of their husbands* affairs than they do of their neighbors’. Some weeks since a lady was first informed of her husband’s suspension by reading an announcement in a paper which she accidentally took up In a store while waiting to have an order filled. Whether it was pride or fear that prompted the secrecy cannot be stated, but what can be expected from wives in the way of true economy if they are only silent partuers in the matrimonial copartnership? In 1857, a large jewelry firm sold a costly set of jewels to a lady. The firm knew that her husband wu In a failing condition, but the lady had been a long and profitable customer. When the partner ordered his clerk not to charge the set which had been delivered, bat to make a memorandum on the blotter, he paid file lady’s integrity a high compliment. When her husband failed the jeweur came back with a note couched In such terms that file dealer only regretted that s. gift of the set would be construed as an insult.—Journal. m m ■ in A hors* belonging to ©apt TWnthend. of Caldicot Hall, near Nuneaton, England, met with a singular death, Tim animal waa conveyed by the London A Northwestern Railway from London to Nnneaton, and at the former place was put into a hone box, whkHHKPfIN|M to the train for Nuneaton. On the arrival o( the train it wa* discovered that he horse had 1 ung iticlf during the jour tney down. — popping at the kitchen fire, and, seeing the/snow, cried out: “ Mother, tom* and/ see; file rain to popping all .white!’* . .. mi n :-.,t The sawmills of Tacoma, Washington Territory, turn out lumber uom logs 10$ feet in length. » r

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