Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-11-18
Marriage on Small Incomes.

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 The New York Sun has been receiving letters on this always interesting topic A young man ill New York thus shows up the Sl5 problem: As several of your readers seem to think it impossible for a young couple to start housekeeping on S15, and then live on 5 or t$6 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 $2.00fTwo knives and Two quilts new 200 forks 9 Bed tick, l0 yards One fatiron. 6b 30 at ID cents 1.00Stuye and pipe, Straw LOO secondhand go Sheets, 10 yards at Tea kettle g cents S1Saucepasts 50 Three chairs, % Washtub s9 cents each 60i Teapot 25l Total Sl500 Five plates sol
 This is not imagination, as I have known the parties who started with these very things and bought at these prices.
 COST OF LIVING FOR ONE WEEK. Vegetables $l00Three and a half Meat 100 pounds sugar g Bread T0wood 20 Butter 50Coal, 100 pounds B One pound tea <0EXtras, milk, etc. 38
 Total $500 Another objection is the wife's having to work out. She need not 1 know plenty who help their husbands by do- ing crochet work and plain sewing at home After 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 SIP A WEEK. To the Editor of the SUn-Sir: '-For- ty Years politely says marriage is out of the question for the poor of America" He has careless way of handling the truth. '.Yrnehn advises young men to celibacy simply because they cannot earn more than $9 per week. Another mistake. If every person took this view of the matter, where would be the ''rising generation" and the '.bone and sinew of our land?" 1 am earning S12 per week, and find that can support my wife and child comfortably. and save a few dollars as well, and this without stinting.
 How do do it? pay low rent, re- tain from the necessary evils of billiards, and cigars, and keep @ daily cash ac- count-the latter an incentive to econo- my. E. EXPERIENCE OF A MARRIED MAN IN OHIO.
 To the Editor of the Sun-Sir: I can live in Cincinnati for about two-thirds of the cost of living here l married two years ago. at the age of 24, and on salary of S22 per week. Of this amount 1 allowed my wife SIP per week for household expenses, including rent At the end of the first year she hasl clothed herself and showed balance oi S295.75-a saving of S6 per week. My clothing and necessary expenses in the meantime reached $55, making the total amount of necessary expenses the first year only S383. .25.
 For the second year I allowed my wife S1O0 additional for clothing; my expen. ses reached S75. Of her Sl00 she saved $40, and said she had plenty. The second year closed on July 21, and oul settlement showed an additional bal ance in our favor of $40 from her allow ance in the meantime had saved ant accumulated nearly S900. So we pu our savings together, and last week Vt moved into little house of our own which is all paid for except about $500
 Never at any time have our total ex penditures exceeded $8.30 per week. al told. We think young couple whC cannot live on go per week would mak, as great failure on S22. I will ad, that am good liver, and our tabl, has always been amply supplied. On' thing should mention, however is tha 1 had bought nearly $500 worth of fur nture just before our marriage.
 SCRIBENDI.
 Springfield. O., Sept. 2s.