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Mr. Terry in a late Rural. It arises, I 
fancy, more from man’s love of domination 
than from stinginess. If a wife would, as 
sweetly and charmingly as she pleases, but 
firmly and unmistakably, give her hus¬ 
band to understand that she will have lib¬ 
erty or death, I think he will in time see 
that he is despotic and mend his disposi¬ 
tion. A woman is not a coward; she 
thinks she is not selfish, and as the term is 
generally used, perhaps she is not, but she 
will weakly give up to some bad habit in 
her husband from pure selfishness ; that is, 
she selfishly shrinks from anything which 
will mar her present happiness, forgetting 
what Carlyle says—that there is some¬ 
thing better than happiness. And rather 
than have any struggle ; rather than give 
herself the pain of opposing him and 
asserting her own individuality; rather 
chan have a chaotic formative period in 
which husband and wife become adapted 
to each other, she yields, and he, uncon¬ 
sciously, perhaps, grows more confirmed in 
the habit of “ bossing,” and she finds her¬ 
self a slave ? Is it not so, wives ? Or are 
men the brutes they sometimes appear to be 
and as Mr. Terry shows ? If so I will stick to 
my cat and let husbands go. old maid. 
THE WIFE’S PARTNERSHIP: TWO 
VIEWS. 
M R. TERRY’S article on page 154 on 
woman’s right to a share in her 
husband’s money, is all as it should be 
so far as it goes; but woman has another 
right which, though it may not be pleasant, 
should be accorded her fully. There are so 
many families where the wife is accused of 
extravagance, when her lavish expenditure 
of money arises from her not knowing any¬ 
thing about her husband’s affairs. Where 
is there a transaction in his business life in 
which she does not have an equal interest 
with him ? I fancy there would be fewer 
failures if the wife knew as well as the 
husband where every penny went. Women 
are as great economists as men. How 
many widows take a debt-laden farm 
and bring up their children there, manag¬ 
ing to live and to pay off the debts. If she 
has known nothing about business during 
her husband’s life time, this is doubly hard 
for the widow; but is it not a double argu¬ 
ment for her being made a confidant in 
regard to all business ventures ? 
She will be sure to hear from a third 
party of a small debt here, a note there, 
and perhaps of a mortgage the need of 
which was never made known to her until 
the time came to execute it. It is not fair, 
it Is not right, to treat women like children ; 
to allow us to remain in ignorance of facts 
which are as much to our interests, brother 
man, as they are to yours 
We do not all suffer from not receiving 
our share from the household purse; but 
some of us would draw on that purse less 
freely, and husband our means more care¬ 
fully, if we knew all about the income and 
outgo of the business which supports us. 
A WOMAN. 
I wonder if wives are not partly to blame 
for the condition of things portrayed by 
you need something to tone you up, and I 
will write out a prescription for you.” 
And for a fact that man charged $5 for 
his drive out there, and all the time I had 
been the physician myself. I never pre¬ 
sented my own bill, though I wish now 
that I had. Husband drove into town and 
got the tonic himself some days afterwards; 
but he was feeling so well that he had no 
need of it, and never used it. 
Here in the State of Washington we 
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* * T AM an American and have resided 
X in Europe for over 10 years. When 
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luxury for the last 10 years. From the 
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Roumania, Europe. 
My way of making griddle-cakes (which 
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