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who saves the pennies and yon know if you take care of the pennies 

 the dollars will take care of themselves; therefore, the women save 

 the dollars. 



In how many homes do you suppose the wife is consulted when 

 there is produce to be sold or farm implements to be bought? I am 

 afraid most men take the management of the farm into their own 

 hands and consider their wives merely silent partners. 



How many times do you suppose a woman buys anything for 

 the home without first asking her husband's opinion? If a woman 

 shares in the work of the farm why shouldn't she share in the 

 management of it? 



And again, when there is a little spare money how often do the 

 wives take a vacation? • In most cases the husbands go on some 

 pleasure trip or make a much talked of visit to some distant part 

 of the country and the wife stays at home to take care of the chil- 

 dren or cook for hired help or do the hundred and one things that 

 seem so necessary for her to see to herself. Has she not as good 

 a right to a vacation from her home duties as her husband from 

 his farm work? I know of a good many farmers' wives who did 

 their share of the work all last year without a word of complaint, 

 but when the question came of spending a few days and a few 

 more dollars at the Pan-American Exposition, did the women go 

 and the men stay at home? No. 



The women stayed at home to keep the wheel turning and the 

 men went to the Exposition. Of course they enjoyed the trip and 

 derived more benefit than the women could and thus they (in their 

 opinion) made the very best use of the money their wives helped to 

 earn. 



Now it is my opinion that if a woman performs her share of 

 the work, she should equally share in the management of it, and in 

 the ownership of the property, also in the disposal of it. 



She should share equally in the luxuries that fall in their lot, 

 and also be willing to share the losses and burdens of life. 



