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erican Agriculturist, January 20,1923 
49 
Who Should Carry the 
Family Purse? 
{Continued from page 45) 
The second remedy is to reform her 
after you marry her. Since this is im¬ 
possible, I won’t take time to tell you 
how to try to do it. 
The third remedy, which is probably 
the best, is to shut your eyes and calm¬ 
ly let her bankrupt you. Perhaps she 
won’t do it after all, and if she does 
you can start all over again and give 
her another chance. She may be a lot, 
as I was the first few days I worked in 
a grocery store. I ate more candy than 
my time was worth, but the novelty 
soon wore off, and my taste for candy 
was satisfied. 
I realize that it is easier to have a 
joint account on a salary than it is for 
a man in business. I must confess that 
we do not keep accounts, but when our 
check arrives, we do budget it, and so 
we both know how much we have for 
incidentals. A lot of the so-called ex¬ 
travagance in wives is caused by the 
fact that the wife has no knowledge 
of what she can afford or how much 
her husband really earns. 
It simply isn’t a square deal for a 
man to expect his wife to come to him 
for every cent she wants to spend. 
Marriage is a partnership and not an 
agreement on the part of a woman 
to keep house for a man for the rest 
of her life for her board and clothes.” 
—H. L. C., N. Y. 
“I believe every one has a desire to 
carry a purse. Whether we continue 
to carry one or turn it over to another’s 
management, is a question w’hich I 
wish we might each decide for our- I 
selves. When I was four years old, a ! 
lady gave me a small glass box in 
which for years I stored my self-earned 
coins. These I spent as I ohose. After 
I was married this little box was of no 
use to me for that purpose. 
The first morning that my husband 
went to work he left his pocket-book 
with me for safe keeping. Hq, has con¬ 
tinued leaving it ever since. For some 
time he kept an account of our expenses 
and savings, but gradually he left that 
for me, and now, after fourteen yeai’s, 
he does not know the amount. I cannot 
say that the handling of money is a 
pleasure, sometimes it seems almost a 
burden. Yet I can truly say that ^e 
only sorrow I ever knew was the burial 
of our eight-year-old boy. However, I 
feel I owe my success with my home 
affairs to the little glass box and my 
mother.”—Mrs. L. D., Pa. 
And here is a letter which sums up 
the whole question in a business-like, 
sensible way: 
“The question of ‘Who should carry 
the family purse?’ is one which should 
be settled fairly definitely before mar¬ 
riage. By this, I do not mean that it 
can be settled simply by making a deci¬ 
sion as to which party shall control the 
family money. The problem of the ap¬ 
portionment of family finances is a deli¬ 
cate one. It is a problem which must 
involve a great deal of concentrated 
thought if a satisfactory solution is to 
be made. Unless this question is set¬ 
tled early, much unhappiness is likely 
to result. 
The family money should be handled 
jointly. The wife should receive an 
amount sufficient to cover her house¬ 
hold expenses, buy her clothing and 
that of her children, and, in short, to 
meet all expenses which come within 
her domain as mother, homekeeper and 
housekeeper. She is the head of a very 
important enterprise, and in this ca¬ 
pacity should have command of the 
finances necesary to it. In the same 
way the husband should have his share, 
according to his business and other 
needs. After the money for the neces¬ 
sary expenses of both husband and wife 
is provided, a certain amount may re¬ 
main. This can be saved or invested 
as they jointly decide. Circumstances 
and conditions differ so widely that 
each couple must work out for them¬ 
selves a satisfactory plan of apportion¬ 
ing their money. It is not so much a 
question of ‘How much of the purse 
shall the husband carry?’ and ‘How 
much shall the wife carry?’ Right here 
is a chance to prove whether or not 
marriage is a partnership. If it is, 
there will be more than one purse!” 
—D. E., N. Y. 
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