A subject which the Geneva jurists will "no doubt consider is, What should a man give his wife as a dress allowance? One has seen this ques tion written about times without number, but T have never yet, seen fan answer. Even the all-wise "Aunt Jane's" and "Cousin Edith's" who are prepared, from the safe retreat of an editorial den, to solve every matrix monial problem, shy off from suggesting any precise gute. Seeing, that "a woman's work Is never done," and that housekeeping and children-minding is really a whole-time Job, the question might almost be put' the other way round: "How much should a man be allowed to keep for himself when handing over his income to his wife?" But few men would see it in this light. There is no answer, of course, because every man and wife decide the matter according to their own ideas.
The approaching marriage of a boy and girl each just 16 years old at Reading has naturally attracted all the attention of the popular press They are described as Englanc youngest married couple, as no doubt they are; he earns £1 a week; her parents, with whom they are to live for the present, have given their full consent; she met him first when attending a cookery class at his school they were then 11 years old, will he make her a dress allowance out of his £1 a week?
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