Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1890 — Are Women Carless of Money? [ARTICLE]

Are Women Carless of Money?

ladle*’ Home Journal. No worntu, at least in America, has any such talent as a man has forspending money.) She spends for what she believes to be beauty —for raiment, books, jewels, decoration, furniture, pictures, marble—rarely for what does serious harm. He spends moßt *or his vices, for the things that hurt him greatly. He is apt to gamble, to speculate, to bring evil to others from his love of pleasur e or of gain. Ho will get nd of more money in a month than she would in years. She would, however ignorant of it, be appalled by the sums he dissipates. She is constitutional}- conservative; big state mentsofany sort are likely to alarm her Unless desperate or frenzied, she invariably stops short of extremes. S’ trembles and pale, where hi in the flush of egotism, moves undisturbed. Nearly all the talk of woman's carelessness of money is realy idle., The opinion cannot be sustained. It Is mainly the echo of misapprehension.

Where she is even partially enlighten* ed on the subject. Her temperamental* tendency is to the opposite of carelessness.