St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-04
A DARING VENTURE.
How Young Couple Got Married on $40
Week.
Close Calculating by Shrewd House
keeper Making it Possible.
Effect OF the Story Upon n Lovelorn
but Impecunious Young Man.


result of the weather for the simple reason
that in the first place they declined TO be-
liev ii, and in the second place the weather
was gloriOusly fine. SO he resolved to make
4 clean breast OF II, and seek that consola-
ton which full confession is popularity
supposed to confer. Boys" lie said 10 the
two youthful adherents whom he had met
as be was slowly walking up the Bowery,
chewing the eud of sweet and bitter fancy,
you're both my friends, believer"
oh, yes; they were both his friends.
They would do anything for him-anything
in reason, that is to say. At present they
were rather hard up-times were very bad
and so on.
Il don't want you 10 lend me money"
said the impecunious young man. with some
stOlld satisfaction visible or his meagre face.
1.-The fact is / have more than enough 70
keep myself in comfort. / want the benefit
OF your advice more than anything else.
know you are both old married New
Workers, who have passed through the usual
experiences of young men born with silver
spoons in their mouths That's all l want
OF you, assure you, dear boys"
Advice? oh, yes; that was another
thing, of course. If he were absolutely in
need OF money, also, they would be de-
lighted to help him. When they had men,
toned the fact that they were hard up they
had simply meant-had simply meant
well, that they were hard up. But adYicel
What could they do for the dear boy?
Il want 10 get married." said the impe-
cunious young man. Il am nearly con-
sumed by the burning desire which is
driving me towards marriage. think of
nothing else. single blessedness-or eurs-
edness. which is tits beginning to pail
IN / m cd
boy" he added, addressing the younger of
his companions, a slim young man with the
dawn of Of a moustache upon his transpar-
ent upper lip.
Il welded on the principle that what Is
not enough 10 support one will be more than
enough 10 support two. bolt, that was"
said the slim young man, fondling the spot
where the moustache would probably be, in
the progress of the suns.
And }" said the older of the Two, a
plump young fellow of some 80 summers,
when clerk in dry goods store on the
munifcent salary of $40 week, united N.Y.
self TO pretty little girl whom loved and
who loved me, and l can safely say, my
dear boys. that for one year had more
solid happiness than L have ever had since,
though my salary is now five times the sum
it was i'm those early DAYS"
dear boy" said the impeeuniOus young
man ecstatically, Il knew one OF you two
fellows would be able to help me and see
at once that it is you. / have larger sal
airy than you had when you married. and
still you see l am complaining. If you will
only tell me how you managed to live hap
PLY on $40 a week, should be more CRATE
ful to you than / should be were you to
hand me $780,"
Il will do so with pleasure" said the
plump young man, initiating himself with
legitimate pride and leading his companions
into coy restaurant off the Bowery,
where TO the tune Of three Welsh rarebits
an animated discussion would be by no
means unpleasant AS the steaming deli
cacies arrived on the capaeious tray of MIN
bic waiter, the three young men heaved sleek
little signs OF satisfaction as the plump
young man proceeded to explain the mys-
teries OF his matrimonial venture.
1T is death to poor. or even moder-
ately rich, young man to marry" he be-
gins dOgmatically, ''unless he is perfectly
convinced of the fact that his wife is very
much in love with him, will stick to him
through thick and thin. and readily realize
the fact that she is not wedding Wander
bilt or Rothschild. Most poor men are
perfectly convinced Of these facts-if they
are not, am sorry for them. Well, fell
in love with very young girl, who had
been well educated. but who had also been
accustomed to help her mother in the dis
charge of household duties, and who was
thoroughly eonversant with all the little de-
tails which are acquired with so much diff
Guilty and so much WEAKNESS after marriage.
My wife, like most young girls in love.
would have married me had stated that l
possessed nothing a year and no expecta-
1nxr II Nr11 49, ...tkI
many bushes and much hesitation, that l
only received SO a week and that by dint
of much stinting had deposited in saw
ings bank the princely sum of sos, she
opened her blue eyes in an ecstacy of sur
prise and remarked: 'Well-I-never-
thought-you had so-muchp But l was
quite determined that would not take adj
vantage OF her ignorance of the world. l
compared my paltry salary with the ex-
tensive ones received by my friends, by her
own brothers, by anybody could thinl, of.
But she never fllnched. If succeeded in
convincing her that / really was a very poor
young man and by no means catch in
the matrimonial market, she never allowed
me to perceive that fact. On the contrary,
at the end Of this financial discussion, she
thoroughly made me feel that was not so
bad of after all, and that l ought to be
thankful things were as they were. So felt
no further qualms in engaging myself to her,
and we fixed very early date for our
marriage. Sissie-that Is my wlfe-in the
meantime kept her eyes open, and was in
all the furniture stores in the city looking
about her and making wonderful calcula-
tons. At night, when / was at the house,
she would frequently drop her knitting. seize
a piece of paper and jot down something,
subsequently folding the paper and putting
it into her pocket.
''Well," she said on one Of these ocea-
sions. would you be satisfied to commence
housekeeping in a very moderate manner
not at ali uncomfortable, but rather cheaper
Housekeeping! l had thought of board
ing with my wife. How could we keep
house on $40 week? ''Sissie," said, Il
am afraid you don't understand the value
of money. Don't you know that decent
fiat costs s45 month, furniture at the very
least $500 and food something enormous?"
No, Sissie knew nothing Of the kind. She
said was foolish, like most men, imagined
that housekeeping involved the expenditure
of fortune, and, for the sake Of a little
trouble at the beginning, preferred to in
dulge In the slovenly habit, gaining so much
ground in America, popularity known as
boarding." That is what Sissie said, but
/ still thought she was rather Utopian in
her ideas.
Draw your Sos from the savings bank
tomorrow morning, WILL" she said calmly.
and call for me at IL o'clock. WewilI then
settle everything, and you shall see that
housekeeping Is more than possible with
your salary, and that every married man
with $40 week who boards IS a goose!''
/ submitted. 1 drew my money from the
bank the next day. and an hour afterwards
Sissie and l were walking through the