Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1903 — Keep Expenses a Secret. [ARTICLE]

Keep Expenses a Secret.

“My dear,** said a shrewd matron to a newly married young woman, “it te bad to let a man know how little you dan live on. ~” "If In a time of financial stress you cut your household expenses to the •very last limit to help him, you will find that thereafter he will always expect you to get along on that minimum amount upon which you squeezed through orr in that emergency. “I don’t know, but men seem to have an idea somehow that you can get along on nothing, and if you should manage in some way to furnish a good table on money utterly inadequate for the purpose, it wouldn't surprise them at all. In fact, they would never give It a thought, for men seem to have an idea that women can do with nothing. ■ ' . ■ , - “Don’t forget that, as It is difficult to recover ground yielded in business, social or other Relations with anybody. So will it be also with your own husband with regard to your household expenses. . And so, my dear, ’use some discretion about these. “If your husband is in real distress, why then, of course, you will risk every other consideration in your desire to help him. But If he is in comfortable circumstances in life, It is better not to let him know how cheaply you can run the house, If you can avoid It.” —Chicago Inter-Ocean. It is proposed to cut a.railway tunnel through the mountains known •as the Faucille, in the Jura Alps, and so shorten the journey between Paris and Switzerland by two and a half hours.