Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1891 — Ecomomy in a Family. [ARTICLE]

Ecomomy in a Family.

There is nothing which goes so far toward placing young people beyond the reach of poverty as economy in the management of their domestic affairs. It matters not whether a man furnish little or much for his family, if there is a continual leakage in the kitchen or in the parlor. It is the husband’s duty to bring into the house, and it is the duty of the wife to see that nothing goes wrongfully out of it—not the least article, however unimportant in itself, for it establishes a precedent—nor under any pretense, for it opens the door for ruin to stalk in, and he seldom leaves an apportunity unimproved. The husband's interest should be the wife’s care, and her greatest ambition should carry her no farther than his welfare and happiness together with that of her children. This should be her sole aim, and the theater of her exploits in tbe bosom of of her family, where she may do as much toward making a fortune as he in counting room or in the work shop. It is not the money earned that makes a man wealthy—it is what he saves fron his earnings. A good and prudent husband makes a desposit of the fruits of his labor with his best friend, and if that friend be not true to him, what has hs to hope? If he dare not place confidence in the companion of his bosom, where is he to place it?