Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1891-05-16
WHERE THE MONEY GOES.

tho ssIOFdD OF Cf0AtlOn. |
~ declare. can't tell where all my
husbands money goes de is NOT e1
travagant, yet he is always short.
A handsome middle-aged lady satd
this on a Madison avenue motor car the
other day to lady friend and in the
hearing Of an Argus reporter. II Is
we'll known that no lady can realize
how easy it is for the average man 70
spend money if he has 1t i'll his pocket
She will go down town, spend one dol
lar and sixty cents and a delivery wagon
will have to haul the things she has pur-
chased home, or she will spend quar-
ter for candy or oysters for herseif ana
economic for a week.
In order to find out how most OF tne
men spend money, the reporter made
few inquiries among men OF all classes"
| Take first an ordinary business or pro-
fessional man. He rides down in the
morning and back in the evening Tor
ten cents, purchases six cigars, Tor
which he pays fifty cents, and before
going into his Office he feels dry and
| takes a drink, which costs fifteen cents
At noon he goes to the hotel, CLUB or
| fashionable restaurant, and his dinner
costs him fully one dollar. He tapers
it off with a glass of light wine that he
pays fifteen cents for. The chances
are that during the morning he went
| over to the bar for a small drink, met
several friends, and consequently spent
one dollar. After dinner he realizes
the fact that he will not be down on the
street again, and as he may run short
by reason OF some one dropping in he
purchases six more cigars for fifty
cents. When his long days work is
over he may decide on a social game OF
| cards. pool or billiards at his club or
private room with few friends and II
he escapes for less than two dollars he
is in luck. This is very low estimate
of the average well-to-do man and yet
he has spent the sum of $40, which
amounts in one week to S32 40 and in
one year to sl,6s4.sO. This is a snug
sum and does not include his Laundry
and barber bills, friends he takes to
: lunch with him. furnishings, knlck-
lznacxs and stuff he takes home ana
| never enters on the family expense
book. fruit and a hundred other things
which come up in the course OF day.
Take another man who is a clerk in
! an Office or store He gets fifteen dol.
. lars per week. has a wife, and child
and himself to support, pays house ren'
and has other expenses. lie likes To
spend money just as well as the rest o,
us. but he has to go pretty slow, LOT II
takes n great deal OF hustling to mako
both ends meet He is poor and liVes
in the suburbs, so it costs him ten cent'
day car fare lie eats at a chop house
and paws fifteen cents for the meal Ht
likes a smoke and buys three cigars fo1
fifteen cents. He may drink glass o
beer or soda water costing hve cents
and when he goes home at night n
buys a paper for five cents. his tota
4 l,o haa
cents. but in one week it amounts t.
three dol!are. which is quite sum to
man in his circumstances, as 1t count
ID up S156 in one year.
This list of a mans daily expenses doe
"A | mt include lodge and insurance dues
ID ! boots and shoes, neckties, collars, cuffs
er underwear and night shirt, collar but
is tons and other necessary articles c
N iewelry, a shave three or four times
N | week hair cut twice a month, shoe
y. shined by bootblack, extra rides
nt the cars, a little fruit now and then, r.
ia pairing shoes and cleaning clothing
m some repairing on your watch. a ne
hat or cap or pair of gloves. Aside an
ed man of a family will carry home
NIGHT sometimes from the bakery {
grocery things which he does not add
on the journal of family expenses
~ single man who has any life in hi
and moves in society and has mont
will double discount the business ms
,,+ on a weekly expense account and a
,is pall the poor clerk. Suppose he is Il
~, son of a rich man and ''cuts her ju
,,r about as he pleaSes. He has all the e
IN penses of his father. amounting
hs Saa 40 per week. and add to this abo
~, 70, dollars a week for "riotous'' livin
and Won have S42 40. The son goes
,,d society and the carriage and flow
tn | bills will amount to Sl5 per week. IN
ice dental expenses will amount to ten O.
To lars every week, making grand to'
nit | of S67. 40.
,as # is no trouble whatever for a m
.N1 20 snend money. Let him be as e'
nomical as possible and his weekly {
nenses will amount to three dolla
49,. and If he lets out link or two he c
a easily spend ten, fifteen or twenty d
. lars in n week and if he spreads he c
+h. come very near reaching the seven
-;f. | five dollar n week mark
49,, .The matter is just like this abou
ron man spending money, SAID gem
man to n reporter. "a woman has
o,d | habits as an average man has. mat
she does not smoke, drink slightly, p
crt+ cards or pool, shake dice tor clga
the Win hi'h ~ - ,,,a. y.
ting that every i,an sas +b,t ,ro
:. to so much, and which it would be
old imposStofftts " t,:ah h.. a.-;v.s
,.;to sole enjoyment and rest from work.
80 woman comes down town and sim
"a does her shopping, taking. perhap
AZ, rfass of soda water, box OF nut
rad candy, or something not costing ov'
here oifie. .ro,a time hut
leXt ana s'ie h"S w wan we
sual IN nFe IL, ,,.;,l .nl;ct
wondering wives how their husba
money disappears Argus