The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1882-10-12
Marriage on Small Incomes.

The New York Sun has been receiving
letters on this always interesting topic.
A young man in New York thus shows
up the SIS problem: AS several OF your
readers seem to think it impossible for
a young couple to start housekeeping
on S15, and then live on SIS or Sc a
week, shall be happy to tell them how
it can be done. Of course they must
buy second hand furniture at first. Let
them buy:
Bedstead, second :. % Cups and saueers 70
hand S2.00Two knives and
Two quilts, new zoo forks 80
Fed tick, 10 yards One fiatiron, 6fb 30
at 10 cents 100Stove and pipe,
Straw LOO secondhand ESQ
Sheets, 10 yards at Tea kettle Is
cents SoSaucepans 80
Table LOO Two wooden pals 50
Three chairs, 20 Washtub 50
cents each 60 -
Teapot 25 Total 1890
Five plates sol
This is not Imagination, as | have
known the parties who started with these
very things and bought at these prices.
COST OF LIVING FOR ONE WEEK.
Vegetables Sl.00Three and a half
Meat LOO pounds sugars 80
Bread 70lWood 20
Butter 50Coal 100 pounds 81
One pound tea 40 Extras, milk, etc. IS
Total $500
Another objection is the wife's having
to work out. She need not I know
plenty who help their husbands by do
ing crochet work and plain sewing at
home. After a while they could take
rooms and keep few boarders. / hope
that these few remarks will benefit some
of your readers, as they are from one
who has had experience in this line.
CGLEBs.
MARRIED AND HAPPY AT $12 A WEEK.
To the Editor of the Sun-Sir: stFor-
ty Years" politely says marriage is out
of the question for the poor of America"
He has careless way of handling the
truth. ''Yrneh'' advises young men to
celibacy simply because they cannot
earn more than SO per week. Another
mistake. If every person took this view
of the matter, where would be the s.rising
generation" and the '.bone and sinew
of our landy' | am earning S12 per
week, and find that / can support my
wife and child comfortably, and save
few dollars as well, and this without
stinting.
How do do itp pay low rent, re-
tain from the necessary evils of billiards,
and cigars, and keep a daily cash ac-
count-the latter an incentive to econo-
my. b.
EXPERIENCE OF A MARRIED MAN IN
OHIO.
To the Editor of the San-Sir: can
live in Cincinnati for about two-thirds
of the cost of living here. l married
two years ago, at the age of "a, and on
salary of S22 per week. Of this
amount | allowed my wife S12 per week
for household expenses, including rent
At the end of the first year she lad
clothed herself and showed a balance of
1926 .75-a saving of Sc per week. NV
clothing and necessary expenses in the
meantime reached S55, making the total
amount of necessary expenses the first
year only S3S3,25
DS tSs ssHaP tha sssGHaaR4 lJpa JHaao dsw4ay y sBi66 i6
ses reached S75. Of her 500 she saved
$40, and said she had plenty. The
second year closed ON July 21, and our
settlement showed an additional bal
ance in our favor of $40 from her allow
ance. / in the meantime had saved and
accumulated nearly 5000. So we put
our savings together, and last week we
moved into a little house of our own.
which is all paid for except about $500.
Never at any time have our total ex-
penditures exceeded $3.50 per week, all
told. We think a young couple who
cannot live ON SO per week would make
as great failure on S22. l will add
that am a good liver, and our table
has always been amply supplied. One
thing l should mention. however, is that
/ had bought nearly $500 worth OF fur
niture just before our marriage.
SCRIBENDI.
Springfield, O., Sept. %.