The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-03-14
Life on SIS q Week.

Editor Morning Ne,0s: I was reared in
comfort and as near idleness as any should
wish; but loving the one l chose to walk
life's pathway With, we were willing to try
living on his income. which was SIS a week.
we saved $40 every month, and did not
MAKE the mistake most do of having a we'd
ulng beyond our means: SO we started with
out debt or dot. ! did not find cooking for
Two drudgery, although l knew nothing
ABOUT ABOUT 1t, and certainly we never consumed
Gov worth or groceries in q month.
hlghC years have we been married and
outsider the experience gained in cooking
curing the first years of the greatest bene-
NJ. III we get where no servant is obtain
aDIe again, will know how to do without.
Our income has increased as our expenses
nave grown, and if all homes were as ours
mere would lie no divorce courts. So much
Ior lacts-now for figures We paid $40 for
solle rooms IN Which we were content.
t"aSnthg "a, groceries $40, maj keting SIS,
tueI %, leaving the rest for occasional trips
70 !yDee and visits TO the theater, which.
WIN the incidental expenses of housekeep-
ing, required $50 per month to live. There
was plenty OF time for reading and visiting.
peheVe there are many other girls who
WOULD be happy to travel the road did.
tILAPIaIn your position, young men, and ask
Now, young girls, if you wish to learn
housekeeping, why not open a restaurant
"uere the young men may get a meal with
ou' paying hotel prices. There are plenty
oa matrons who would oversee such an
s0'aOilSnfnant. w. NJ.
be Honest With Each Other.
Aa.tor Morning Nelos: 1 have been
sieaViy interested in the controversy going
on through the columns of the MORNING
Jews upon the question of marriage, and
nope you will allow young wife" little
space In which to tell call whom it NAV
concern" little of real ex perience Of a year
.lu nalt OF married life. l fear the great
tb lube with our young men and women is
CO., co. Vuey are noc perfectly honest with
oaou otner They assume airs and try to
r nppear to be worth a great deal
vom than they really are. A
gu man who receives only
Soo or 500 per month will try to make it
a.Pear 70 the young ladies with whom he
associates that he receives lust about twice
Ia uucn as be really gets. And young
il win try to make it appear that papa"
- really very well off indeed. Her hands
'e sort and white as lily, and dainty little
d Dc. WIN peep out from the edge of the very
sWailitiest gown imaginable, while probably
ronaIL ma slssln.the kitchen preparing the
d heals while my lady" is in the
Sa"!ng-room reading the latest no vel, or
worse still, standing before a mirror ad-
batng herself and studying how to make
neIseh more captivating Young men,
~ S,;el such a girl If you would have good
IrHe and loving mother for your children.
am = am speaking especially to poor youug
len len Tor man who gets only 500 is very
10 pool man OF course, a rich mans wife
oah AFFORD to do nothing at all except what
~ sue Hkes, but poor mans wife is expected
80 De ''helpmeet" and not q
,tuelp eet,' SO every young man
iiiiould see how vitality important it is for
s Lu 70 marry woman who will be per-
secly honest in all her dealings with him,
euu Try to help him put away a few dollars
.or rainy day. And above all things avoid
eeyoung lady who seeks to attract your at
Seuuon-I mean a firt, she viii not make
sOu good wife, for if she viii firt with