Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1893 — Looking Forward. [ARTICLE]

Looking Forward.

We do not need an Edward Bellamy to look backward from the serene heights of 2000 A. D., to tell us that the time is coming when the moneyless wife of a rich man will be unworthy of our civilization—and people then will treat as a myth the story of the wife asking for a dollar and being met with: "Why, Mary, what can you want with a dollar—don’t you have all you need?” In that happy day no woman will confess to another: “My husband isgenerosity itself—he spends everything I wish on the house and tries to give me al! the pleasure he can--but, oh dear, I never cah get any money for myself—any little sum for the many things the children and I need — without a positive fight.” writes Annie R. Ramsey in an article on “The Question es Allowances” in the September Ladies’ Home Journal. Nor will be -heard the answer, as too often now; “Oh. my husband is just the same, but I take it out of the market purse and put it down to •sundries.’ He never knows, or if. he does notice and scold I have the things stnyhow.” Fine training in honor, this!