"Live and let live" is a motto that should begin, continue and be best exemplified at home.

The wife either earns an honorable livelihood, or she is a licensed mendicant.

The man who, after a careful estimate of the services rendered by her who keeps the house, manages his servants, or does the work of the servants he does not hire; who bears and brings up his children in comfort, respectability and happiness; who looks after his clothing and theirs; nurses him and them in illness, and makes the world lovely for him in health--does not consider that his wife has paid her way thus far, and is richly entitled to all he has given or will ever give her--is not fit to conduct any business upon business principles.

If he be sensible and candid, let him decide what salary he can afford to pay this most useful of his employes--and pay it as a debt, and not a gratuity.

The probability is that he will find that the sum justifies her in regarding herself as a partner in his craft or profession, with a fair amount of working-capital.
There is but one equitable and comfortable way of relieving the husband from the charge and the fact of injustice, and the wife from the sorer burden of conscious pauperism.