, 1875-02-14


your issue Of Sunday last, could not but smil'
at her ceedu1ity when abe says. ~ am not doubt
ing the fact at all, but would like to see theite
! Of expenditure Of those families who lire 81
well on 50 little, and lay BY something ever,
| week."
Now, csnnot give her detailed atatement o1
! the expenses Of my family for the 1ast eleven
| mouths (tte time propose to SO oyer); but
hand at the beginning Of the period, aud what
NOW have 10 cash and its equivalent t:on thif
| deal" il is ea4y to and ont about
WHAT QUE ExrEssEs HkyE BEEN.
When I frs went to housekeeping, eleven
uontha ago, bought ont friend. who, being,
imagine, something OF t.Amerigo's' n tempern-
| ment, found it coatiog too much to keep house,
! ana so thought it better to board. The schedule
Of articles bought Of him amounted to
about 5000. ] bad only 500 in ready money
that paid to him, and afterwards, by ,pstall-
melts Of $40 per month, made un the balance.
A1y purchase Of him vas not suficicpt to fur
nish mF house en.irc, and have siuco bought
necessary articles to the amount OF 5000; So at
present, the fucnishing stands me trife over
$500.
ceiyed outside OF it perhars $l50 for tho entire
term, but, having been obliged TO MAKE two dis
tant trips, my travelling expenses have fully of
sas that item. 10 will not count it in nv sum-
mary. I have a balance on hand Of $145.
Thus to summarize: lily receipts hare been
s1.375; on hand, 500; making ! total of u, AS
Value Of furniture at present, $500; cash on
hand, s145: leaving balance, as tie cost OF
living for e1even mouths. $3.50. or
4 MONTHLY COST OF %75.45.
OF this amount, my rent aud vater-tax have
taken S23G 80; life-iosuranco, $50. Then alitrle
stranger presented herself at cur house one
fine morning last summer. aud has persisted in
boinG we'll fed and clothed ever siuce. If
"4metigo's" experience has led Ler thus far,
she knows .m makine Low figure when esti-
''cpieode" at S100. So here We have expenses
Of $3S6.50 deducted from S93o,-leaving actual
living expenses Of $443.50, OF m average Of $40
per month.
can Imagine the pity depicted on s'Ame1i-
go's" countsn1nce as she thinks "how those
poor folks muat hare starved" I will simpty
say TINT ! boarded four years in the best places
on tho South Side before marriage; and the
thought, should entertain it, that | must 80
back to clearinghouse. would result in SWELL
ing Chicago's mortality report by juEt one.
As .s'Amerieo'' closed her article BY little
advice, so will I. To i young man coutemplat-
ing matrimouy, say, DON'T Hnger.
Do41So.
A MATRIMONIAL EXPERIENCE
The Nes0 ZEALAND herald has vely painful
story, told in illustratiou Of the great present
dearth Of respectable d1e1snaking hands in that
colony. It seems that well-to-do settler near
Auckland Was lately attacked By an illness which
his medical attendant declared must terminate
fatally, SO severe we're the symptoms. After
lying in an apparently hopeless state for some
days, he suddenly took turn for the better, and
thanks to strong constitution, made q rapid re-
corery. Not long after ha had returned to bus-
ness, he Vas much startled, IN opening an
account Presented at hia office, to tind him
weeds Of elaborately complete description. 4
domestic explanation naturally followed and his
wife reminded him that he had always made it a
special desire that the fact Of their having
her dressing ~ q lady. .:And the dresslaaacrs
here, you know" she added, :'1ave matteru so !!
entirely in their own hands that thev generally |
Keep you waiting for months Tor anything neI. !
80 when Was told you could not possibly recoy- |
II, ordered what knew you would wish me to |
ust come home" Tbs bill was promptly set |
led. Whether tue husband Was consoied for
ho outlay BY the thought that his provident
wife had the things ready by her ia q question
hat is loft open to conjecture.
ASSUMPTION OF SEX.
4 curious case Of assumption OF sex was lately
discovered in Paris. 4 pensioned ofhcor named
now nearly so years old fell i'll, aud
ad to be taken to the Neckar Hospital There
be doctor IN charge discovered that the officer
e1onged to the female se1. Her secret being
nus detected, the ''vieille Dc Ia Yieilio " no
niger hesitated giving the story Of her lie.
he was Il when she lost her father, Bavarian |
olouel. Her grandfather, Gan. Baron Von
enkeisen, bad the command OF Bavarian army
'rps. Bavaria was then the aliyof .F,arco. 81
,rne unexplained whim this grandfather fopced
er to enlist in one OF the regiments Of his di-
sion. She advanced rapidly in the campaigns
Germany and Spain. and was wounded twice,
I'd severely, At Waterloo. She was then admit
ID IN the hospitals as an officer OF the SECOND
asa. In 1880 che took service again. and went
Algeria in 1888 she obtained French natural
alton and pension. This 1o4,an has elori-
Is character to boast OF, having received letters
: congratulation On her valo1ous deeds from
afshals Dertbier, Augerau. Suchet, aud Gen.
upont, who was sentenced to death for having
pisulated at Baylen with 10000 men.
AN ECONOMICAL HUSBAND.
From tue Detroit Fr<s Press.