WHEN THINGS WEAR OUT.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2390, 4 January 1909, Page 7

WHEN THINGS WEAR OUT.

Tf jj3 FAULT OF THE TROUSSEAU

Did' you never [hear a [husband remark after vi year or so of married life, “You spend twice as much now , a 3 wo did wihen we were first* married, and yet you don’t look nearly as nice. I should thirk by this time y O -u should know Qiow to manage on income.” This .remark, nnd the quarreis that follow, and all the fuss over the accounts in the household, I put down to the fault of the trousseau. Every girl delights in her trousseau, on it as her perfect right, and yet that stxme trousseau is at the root of much misery. Why? Because when a girl is first married the house and everything in it is fresh and new; she is able to look dainty and fresh, and keep her house spick nnd span, yet the accounts are very email, and everything .runs most smootKy. This is all very well, but after a year or so the trousseau (unjoss it belongs to some gird who has plenty of the needful) begins to wear out, Ibats apd dreses .go out of fashion, and underclothes need replacing. At the same time houselinen and tea towols. etc., will begin to grow thin and worn, and kitchen land household articles wild need replacing or repairing. Then more than probable there will be other expenses in the shape of a baby’s trousseau mid doctor’s hills. > , Then the “man” of the house begins to complain. “The accounts are doubled and trebled, and you must be a had manager.” It ds not much use pointing out the reason of the expenses. He will tedl you he can dress on £2O a year, and this will, cover all his expenses, fand the rest is yours. “And look how well you managed when we were first married, and! you were better dressed on half the amount we spend now.” ; , ‘ The trousseau is to blame.

Instead of a number of dresses,.etc., let a bride haye an ordinary useful outfit, and a (little pin money .put in Or better still, let a bride be wise, and each year, beginning with the first, lay in a stock of necessary calico and towellings towards the next years. There w-ill then not ho such a big jump in the accounts laud the bride will. not be such, a worried housewife when three years have passed and. things wear out.