3884. No moneyed man has the moral right to enter on engagements or speculations, hazarding his estate, without the consent of his wife.
3885. Knowing that the end of life is death, every right-minded man ought to pursue that which is connected with happiness and ultimate bliss.
3886. Family Tool Chests, Papers, etc.—Much inconvenience and considerable expense might be saved, if it was the general custom to keep in every house certain tools for the purpose of performing at home what are called small jobs, instead of being always obliged to send for a mechanic, and pay him for executing little things that, in most cases, could be sufficiently well done by a man or boy belonging to the family, provided that the proper instruments were at hand.
3887. The cost of these articles is very trifling, and the advantages of having them always in the house are far beyond the expense.
3888. For instance there should be an axe, a hatchet, a saw (a large wood saw, also, with a buck or stand, if wood is burned), a claw-hammer, a mallet, two gimlets of different sizes, two screw-drivers, a chisel, a small plane, one or two jack-knives, a pair of large scissors or shears, and a carpet-fork or stretcher.