The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-10-15
Expense Of THREE ITEMS
hat It Costs to Be Born. Get
Married, and to Be
Buried.

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he First and Last Are Without
Expense to tho subjeot
Himself.
Ut No Pays tho RIlIs for His wedding,
which Costs Less Than Birth
or Death.
uWhat doss It cost q man to DO born,
srried, buried? Cradle, altar, grave.
hose arc tho three great items Of life's
ven stages. Men may escape Q great
any thinga--small-pox, bankruptcy.
ats's prison. the presidency; but n can
hrdly escape being born, very few avoid
10 matrimonial halter (even sour Cap'n
attlos find Mrs. McStingers). and no one
At must finally measure his brief length
ader the sod.
II mans birth il the most important
rent Of his life, 1t In the only n with
hich he has absolutely nothing to do, con-
quently the expenses incurred by his
bming to light cannot exactly be laid at
q own door. The doctor ia generally the
Dry first to greet the stranger, aud for his
omptness at being on hand he expects to
we'll paid. Well-to-do parents may slip
to the urban physicians palm = comfort
Die bank check, with at least three figures
the corner, and the first figure may be
tstty we'll along. But the great majority
the DOCTORS customers could never be
kpected to give him that much. II he gets
e5 from his ordinary customer for his at
ndance at the advent and for his Visits
r two weeks, ho ia presumably very well
&tisfed, and the usual fee ranges between
5 and $50.
The maximum fee paid to the doctor is
btwosn $3.50 and $500, while the average
d, given by those we'll off in this worlds
PODS, ranges from $50 to 300. Mr.. Book
beper and Mr.. Clerk think $40 and $25
eough, however, and some do not con-
der the Doctor a necessary parsonage,
ter all.
Always q necessary parsonage. however.
the nurse, and those who can afford it
tnerally retain her for o month. Every
bdy but tho extremely poor will keep her
+ two weeks. Her reoompense Will be
lywhere between SIS and $40 a week, and
Q will have to get her board in the bar
lin.
A practical, common-sense nurse, how
or, one who, like Sary Camp, has &C
hired all her skill from actual practice,
n be had for $40 week, and is all that is
beded. Or course, all prices of doctors
I'd nurses can be selected, but the S2O
octor and the $40 nurse will satisfactorily
| the bill. This makes The cost for the
west ordinary birth foot up about $40,
lnginR to about 1920. -
Marriage is the next important act, and
any find that the most costly step Of their
YES. When the love-smitten swain slips
10 sparkling diamond ring on HIS sweet
bart's fourth finger his whole years salary
[ny 90 with IL. A nice engagement ring,
1rohased at the jewelers. for $40, but let
Dt the superstitious prospective bride
Dom purchase an opal. The nabob and
apnate often put q whole brownstone
ont into their gift, but probably an esti-
ate from $40 to 800 will strike the cost
the average man. The lover Will then
by a SO or S. plain gold wedding ring, HE
= AlOOAk W. tAV AAA ~ sN~
upid Of the orphans court, and procure q
p-cent license, giving an extra half TO the
Icular license clerk If he feels undoubtedly
hppy, and then knock at the parsons or
fctor's door. Perhaps he may go to Cam
an, and fall a prey to the ministers' run
ers. If he is very far from blessed with
Huence he may lead his bride by the
and before a magistrate.
When the lover seeks the psrson he is
snerally married in unpretentious style,
nd escapes at the cost Of Nv. Five dol.
lrs," says a good and cody parson, lis the
west any groom ever dared to offer me-.
hen they offer S1OI feel thankful; when
icy give me $25 / praise the Lord"
The hubby" who is a man of means
arts of on his honeymoon with \ depicted
nrss. He has provided souvenir jewelry
br the bridesmaids and best men, tipped
10 church sexton we'll, paid the high
Eiced choir, settled with the florist and
resents the aneelically-beaming rector
it'll a bank note only limited by his notion
to what the highest is that the rector
Pts. These marriages are in the province
he 400' and the Submerged tenth" usu-
~ get through with the ordeal of llymen
pr $50. including the wedding trip, but
en- with these it runs often as high ne
100 and $3.50. Wedding trips to Europe
70 not counted. t1
Death-what wouldn't one let it cost him
escape it! Death costs not a SOU. Men
luander their fortunes in tho vain on
SAVIOR to elude it. Eighty people in Phila-
elphia did indeed seek it last year. but
ley are the exception. What it cost them
mere glance at their means of exit may
rye alone to tell: TWENTY-FIVE suicided by
l~ooting, twenty-ons BY hanging. six cut
leir threats, four poisoned themselves,
pur swallowed laudanum, one jumped
ON a railroad train, ono from q window,
NO each took arsenic, carbolic acid, Goa
Rs and strychnine. n died by a wound,
nd q single victim in every case fell by
conite, corrosive sublimate, oxnlic ncid.
Iris green, prussia acid and rat poison.
My two chose the very cheapest and least
asteful oourse-drowning. But suicide
part, if the poorest mum dies a natural
saith the common deoency of the commu-
Ety has provided a county undertakes to
ter him in a rough pine box in the pau
Br lot for SIS. III he ia an old soldier he
i'll get q 1856 burial.
When an ordinarily w%ell-to-do citizen
shuffles off this mortal coil tho under
eker lays him out for from $3.50 to $40,
nbalms him for from $3.50 to $50, adver-
ses his death for So, clothes him in a ST.
$25 shroud or suit, and puts him in 4
ack cedar casket worth 300. Nearly
very well-ciroumstanced citizen who dies
buried in a 300 cRaket. Walnut collins
IN be had by his mourners for $40, or they
IN have his remains repose in u S2,5OC
old-mounted casket. Then. too, the fun
al ceremonies may be with choir, hiret
all bearers, usually four, at 80 apiece
nd with many carriages ut $3 and up
ard. M.& Ill
The hearso rents for s5; the %so.square
so -" Ia .-a- f-s 49,