Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-01-13
MARRIED ON $40 A WEEK.

The impecunlous young man was
lOw-spirited and gloomy. 1t was not
the least use in the world to try and
persuade his friends that this melan-
choly mood was the result of the
weather for the simplest reason that
in the first place they declined to be-
lieve it, and in the second place the
weather was gloriously fine. So he re-
solved to make a clean breast OF 1T,
and seek that consolation which full
confession is popularity supposed to
confer. Boys" he said to the two
youthful adherents whom he had met
as he was slowly walking up the Bow
cry, chewing the cud of sweet and bit
ter fancy, you're both my friends, |
believe"
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.
81 don't want you to lend me
money" said the impecunious young
man, with some stolid satisfaction
visible on his meager face. 1.-THE fact
is that [ have more than enough to
keep myself in comfort [ want the
benefit of your advice more than any
thing 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 / want of
you, [ assure you dear boys"
Advice ? Oh, yes, that was another
Of h. olo IL
in need OF money. also, they would be
delighted to help him. When they had
mentioned thefact that they were hard
up they simply meant-well, that they
were hard up. But advice! What
could they do for the dear boy?
Il want to get married." said the
lmpecunious young man. 81 am near
ly consumed by the burning desire
which is driving me towards marriage
[ think of nothinge else. Single blessed
ness-or cursedness, which is tits
beginning to pail upon me. I long to
wed, as you did, dear boy," he added,
addressing the younger of his compan-
ions, a slim young man, with the dawn
of mustache upon his transparent
upper lip.
81 welded on the principle that
what is not enough to support one
will be more than enough to support
two. Dolt, that | was," said the slim
young man, fondling the spot where
the mustache would probably be, in
the progress of the suns.
"And l." said the elder of the two, a.
plump young fellow of some 80 sum-
mers, e'when a clerk in a dry goods
store on the munifcent salary of $40
a week, united myself to a pretty lit
tie girl whom [ loved and who loved
me, and | can safely say, my dear
boys, that for one year I had more
solio happiness than I have ever had
since, though my salary is now five
times the sum it was in those early
days"
''Dear boy" said the impecunious
young man ecstatically, "I knew one
OF you two fellows would be able to
help me, and see at once that it is
you. have a larger salary than you
had when you married, and still you
see | am complaining. Ii you will only
tell me how you managed to live hap
PLY on $40 q week, [ shall be more
grateful to you than I should be were
you to hand me $780,"
II will do so with pleasure" said
the plump young man, initiating him
self with legitimate pride and leading
his companions into a coy restaur-
ant off the Bowery, where to the tune
of three Welsh rarebits an animated
discussion would be by no means un-
pleasant. AS the stea,ning delicacies
arrived on the caDacious tray of a
nimble waiter, the three young men
heaved sleek little signs of satisfac-
ton DIS the plump young man pro-
ceeded to explain the mysteries of his
matrimonial venture.
cit is death to a poor, or even mod
erately rich, young man to marry"
he began dogmatically, ''unless he is
perfectly convinced of the fact that
his wife is very much in love with him,
and will stick, to him through thick
and thin, and readily realize the fact
that she is not wedding Vanderbilt
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 discharge of
household duties, and was thoroughly
conversant with all the little details
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 possessed nothing
year and no expectations. When,
one day, | told her, with many bushes
and much hesitation, that l only re-
ceived $40 q week and that by dint of
much stinting | had deposited in a
savings bank the princely sum of S65.
she opened her blue eyes in an ecstacy
of surprise and remarked: WELL.
never-thought- you had so-much p
But [ was quite determined that r |
would not take advantage of her
ignorance of the world. / compared |