Separate Pocket-books

Iliisbiuids and wives are not on e in my such sense aa to obvíate the necessity, or at least the propriety, of each having a purse with money in it that each shall feel free to use as he or ah e chooses. Tastes diiïer, and it ia not fair that men or women shall be re(juired entirely to subordínate their wishes in trifling matten to the party of the other part. If they chooseto do so, well and good. Such deference to the opinión of a husband by a wife is all the more becoming when known to be voluntary and not compulsory. A wife often wishes to give money in charity, and she may sometimes like to m;ie a pleasant surprise for her huslmnd in the shape of some appropriate present. IIow is she to do tliis if she has to go to him and explain in detail what money sheneeds and what úst! she propose"to niake of il? In bestowing charity, we are told not to let the left hand know what the right hand giveth ; but how is this precept to be fullilled by the thousands of women wlio are the "right band" of so niuny households in work of charity where the left band, their husbands, keeps all money! "Aunt Patoy," evidently h farmer wife, writes very aensibly on this topic in the Western Rural, as follows: "Eveiy woman ought to have her own poeket-book and some way oí making money that is lier own, There are a number of ways on a farm that this can be Jone, if one has a mind to flnd them. I have a friend who lias all the butter she sel Is, or rather all the money she sets lor it, for lier own; she does witu it as she pleases and accounts for it to no one, and her husband (sensible man) tbinka it all right. I would not give a snap to make my busband a present bought with the money I had by hard exertion cóaxed lrom him. Who would? He perhaps would not seewhat I wanted with it. [ do not want to teil him iust then, therefore lie does not tliink I need it. Perhaps Idont; but I notice that the slippers I got bottomed with it and gave to liim on bis birthday or Christmas were thought by him to be all right, and be didn't -'see bow be ever got along without theni." Had I told him at the time wliat I wanted of the money, half the pleasure of receiving and all the pleasures of giving would have been gone. "Suppose you are out in company and the ladies are raising a little private fund of tlieir own, as is often the case, how small a woraan feels to be compelled to say, 'I would like to give something, but Mr. D. bas got the book, and he is not here!' Don't you think Mr. D. would feel rather mean over it when she went home and told him about it, as you would be sure to do Y "IIow many men can we piek out who have every kind of improved machinery to help along their work, who are every now and tlien buying some jian'iil Hght riiiicêin, of no use to hemselves or any one else, while the wife doesn't have any of the helps there are i'or her sex- often not even a washer or wringer! I can lind plenty such. Would it be so if she had some of the money to spend ? "Does not a woman look better with a neat dress, nice collar and a bow of bright ribbon, than with the dxess minus the collar and bow ? Still, if she had asked you to get them, you would probably have told her it was 'all foolishness having such fixin's- she could do just as well without them.' The woman that never has a little extra money for her own use soon gets tired of trying, and then is pretty sure to go to the other extreme. Give me the woman that carries her own pocket-book, and the man who til taks it is all right for her to do so."