San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-10-05

mothers home being near py' We naaoo
ourselves welcome during the period OF
nest building, and when all was ready
I gave the pride of my heart the stipu'
lated amount-s20 per week-and we
agreed to have our first feast on the
first Monday following. That was
Wednesday, and our opening CHANGING
on my birthday, she had sufficient time
10 invest in s3s morning robe for me,
and charged the remainder of the bill
TO nv account. tell you she had not
the first idea of housekeeping. Her
ambition took in every luxury in the
market, and I could not convince her
of the necessity of limiting her ex'
penses to $40. An ordinary supper,
consisting of beefsteak, potatoes, a
salad, sweetmeats, pound cake, buns,
coffee and one kind of desert frequently
cost her 50. 63, exclusive of staples, lire
and cost of preparation. II she made
cake the Ingredients amounted to a
dollar or more, and the kitchen 1re
necessary to bake it raised the temper
ature of the fiat to torrid heat. Then
she was too tired to make biscuits, and
fifteen cents procured dozen OF those
articles at the bakery. If she concluded
to buy the dyspeptic article, there was
a chance to get away with trouble
some so cents. Her domestic, good
creature. we'll seasoned with the verdule
of the Emerald Isles, could only out do
her. Her experiments with bread mon
opolized an entire barrel OF fionr' al
though our tables showed decided
partiality for Vienna bread, which my
gentle wife informed me only cost
cents loaf. We had beefsteak for
breakfast, beefsteak for dinner, and
beefsteak for supper three pounds at
every sitting-and although we were
only triumvirate, the butcher levied
on us weekly for $11. My temper de-
pended on good health, as it does with
everybody; good health on good d.
gestion, good digestion on good food
properly cooked, and my fortune on
economical home management. But
everything was moving in retrograde
direction, ruin seemed impending, and
despair and faith were at the wrong
ends of the compass"
"And yet you advise me to marry?"
interjected the reporter.
"Of course I do-if you marry the
right woman"
"Humph! As if a fellow could tell
before hand whether she was the right
woman or the wrong one! Well, how
did you get out of the scrape-for 1
you did get out of It'll"
"In this wise. CHANGING on colored
woman, huge and black, who wanted to
hire out as chorewoman ct the store.
7 offered to give her a good home, So
q week salary, and SIS to run my house
on. The bargain was accepted. My
little wife has since been religiously ex-
Guided from the kitchen, and we have
never had break in the surerinten-
1ence of the housekeeper's manage
nent; and am informed that not.only
can she run the house, but saves from
81 to Sc month from her allowance
which goes to her own use. A Mascotte
veil, I should say so. And don't de-
light to award her monthly with cheap
lresses, ribbons and other fnery and
livide every box of candy that comes
nto the house."
"And you consider that better than
wing single!" 1
"Of course it's better than living
inglel Get married by all means, but t
f you miss the right housewife, entrap 6
ONE colored cook and you'll save I
noney." t
Il pay $40 for rent, So for gas, $40 I
or board and help, and have the re- c
nainder ofmy salary $40 month for q
lothes, car fare and incidentals. Half g
# this I bank. There's my modus- s
perandi," and waving his hand OBJ -,
iquely, he stepped off the Car and lost 9
imself among the cash boys that were f
weeping off the sidewalk. The next &
was held with a young s
alesman in a Wabash avenue paper y
angers. :