Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1855-10-31


Charles Converse covered the mon
ey'
Capital idea for you to bet against
me with my monney 7 said he, good
humoredly.
IF l lose L will do without that new
barege l am to have.
Nay, my dear, | don't want you to do
that
But go on
Pew rent, six dollars, said the hus.
band promptly.
Here it is, answered she, pointing to
the entry in the hook. Try again
Season ticket on the railroad-twen-
ty.'
4 have it
Saving the wood
Entered
Charles reflected moment the case
began to look desperate.
New Innings for the cooking stove
Here, two dollars
Mr.. Converse began to look hopeless.
MY taxes
We'll, I have not got that
But that was the only thing he could
mention of these necessary expenses, that
was not found to be regularly entered on
his wife's book. Sill Mr.. Converse was
not satisfied.
Your figures can't be correct, Mary
said be.
why not.'
MY salary is all used up and you can
account for only four. hundred and nine
ty-two dollars of it,
You must explain the balance
q! Why, Mary have not been ex-
trayagant. 1t is true l buy great
many little things in the course of year,
but they are hardly worth meption.'
sAh there's the mischief. That is
where the money goes to. you may de-
pend upon it..
Nonsense You women don't under
stand these hings.'
'Of course we don't J.
well your figures show that you
don't. Where has the three hundred
and eight dollars gone to, then p
L don't know, Charley. 1 haven't
the least idea. l am sure I have got
down all the items that came 10 my
knowledge. am positive thatyou have
brought home no articles of any descrip-
ton that has not been entered on the
book mean articles of food and cloth
ing and things for the house
But just look at it a moment. You
don't mean to say that have spent three
hunG:ed and eight dollars over and
above our necessary expenses p said
Charles, little warmly.
4 don't mean to say anything about
it, for l don't know anything about it,
Now 1 think of it, there's my life in
surance, have you got that down p
4 have not
There is forty OF the three hundred
But it leaves two hundred and sixty
eight dollars unaceounted for
1T would take a great while to collect
money enough to build house, even if
the whole of this sum were saved
Not great while, Charles. You
know my father has promised to give
you the land when you have the means
to build house upon it.
1T will be long while, laughed the
husband
Five OF six years, perhaps, if you are
prudent. Has rot the president of your
bank promised you a thousand dollars
next year p
Yes.
Then you can certainly save four
hundred dollars year
There are a thousand things we want
when my salary is raised
But we can get along without them
Il suppose we can
Just look here, Charles
Mrs. Converse took from her pocket a
circular issued by the Peoples Saving
Bank, in which the accumulation of sew
eral small sums, deposited weekly and
quarterly were arranged in a table.
Fifty dollars deposited every quarter
will nei in five years, S1.141 95 = contin-
ued she, reading from The circular.
Bah j added Mr. Converse.
That sum would build very com
Portable house; and when your salary
is thousand dollars year you can save
more than fifty dollars quarter
"a FIVE cent institution isn't it % an
swered the young man.
But he was much impressed by the
reasoning of his wife, and in the course
of the evening, he carefully read the
circular Of the Saving Bank.
Certainly be had every inducement
for being saving and economical. He
lived very cheaply in small house be
longing TO his. father .in-law, for which |
he paid merely nominal rent.
His wife's father was wealthy far
mer, or rather he had beea farmer be-