The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-05-04
TWELVE HUNDRED A YEAR.

How Washington Department Clerk
Ekes Ont q Living on That Sum.
''Why, my dear boy, it's the simplest
thing in the world" said department
clerk in Washington the other day. Il
economic on the neeessaries Of life. so as
to devote my income as far as possible to
luxuries. can 60 without meal with en-
tire philosophy, but TO forego cigar when
! want one would make me feei poor and
occasion 10 corresponding distress.
81 pay 81 30 week for comfortable hall
bedroom. | am never there save for Sleep
ing ana dressing purposes, and 1t serves me
as well as if it were palatial apartment.
Why should / squander money in that way?
For my meals l go to re stauTsnts. Wash
ington has the cheapest eating-houSes in the
United States, and l do the thing frugally,
without starving myself in the least. My
annual expenditure for food and lodging is
certainly not more than 1910.
THAT leaves me clear SS25 for clothing,
incidentals and amusement In the last
category the most expensive Is horse.
That costs me $40 a month. 1t is we'll worth
the money, because horse is not only a
source Of enjoyment but an appurtenance
most essential TO what you term sweetness.
/ 90 to a cash establishment-sueh are to be
found in every city-where, by paying the
money down, | get my garments made to
order for little more than half the fashion
able tailors' prices. By practicing this
method can dress like a lord, including
all undertaking, collars and cuffs, and so
forth, on $500 year. Washing is an extra.
For my neckties | get one and quarter
yards of some thick, handsome silk, white
or blue, and induce one of my young lady
acQuaintances to cut the stuff in two length
wise, and hem the edges, so as TO make two
four in-hands, which tie myself, of course.
If you know where to go for them you ca u
buy the bandsomest possible patent-leather
shoes" ties"-for summer use, at 81 30 a
pair. White CATERS do not cost much, and
there are few additions to the dress that
contribute more to a generally swell effect.
The spring overcoat have on cost only SIG,
and you will not find more stylish one in
Washington.
Subtract S225 for clothing and really
necessary incidenlals from $S25, and you
find that have $600-half of my entire in
come--to throw away uron nothing in par
ticular, that is Of Importance. In summer
| have one mOGth'S vacation, which L al
ways spend with friends in one place or an
other. so that the outing costs me very
little
"Here it is taken for granted that youth
full beaux are poor and that very little is ex-
pected Of them. Men are so scarce that
they only have to be polite and presentable
in order to find themselves acceptable In
fashionable drawing-rcoms.
IF a man would be we'll dressed, how
ever, II Is all important that he should take
care of his clothes. Let him take off his
best things when he gets home. hang up his
coat and fold up his trousers on shelf.
with the creases together. 1t costs very lit
tie TO dress well-much less, in fact, than
many persons spend in dressing badly. The
thing is we'll worth studying. In another
way also 1t pays to be well dressed. A man
who Is so is better received everywhere
His attire is letter of recommendation to
strangers, and even his friends cannot help
according him more consideration on the
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