The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-11-27
WEDLOCK ATA LOW COST
AFTER TWO DAYS SHOPPING THE
FIGURE Has BEEN FIXED.

FLU NJ u = DEGaN 7 A0GOs
Furniture From Queer Places is Bar
gain Bought-Second-ha Goods
and Their MISUNDERSTANDING
About Country Auctions and Colo
NAL Furuiture-A Mahogany Bed
for SO.
(Copyri0ht. 1897
NEW YORK. Nov. 26.-It is not matter
81 daughter and ducats; it is. however, q
question of Hymen versus dollars and cents.
A number of economists have been spread
ing beretical beliefs with their hard-headed
arguments over the impossibiIity OF getting
married and keeping married on less than
rs 600 income. They assert that the young
mao Of the period can't possibly maintain
an establishment at whose head is a young
woman OF this jim de StecLe on an amount
whose initial digit indicates something
below the $4,000 limit. This may
he very true for the exotics whom
we class under the genus fin de stecIes, but
there are large numbers Of us who are not
included In thatoassidcation. A certain
sturdy strain. not mentioned by those luxu-
rious economists. can thrive very well on an
income represented by very few dollars,
eked out with large amount of common
sense.
LISA tenable assertion that two people so
much in love that they are not over proud
cen live together neatly on $1,000 a year.
More, they can marry on IL If the spend
thrift groom has not saved more than $500
toward the great event
Hagglings with retail dealers, hard wrung
bargains with wholesale houses and morti-
locations of the flesh at secondhand shops
troop alongside the 81 200 pair, but the
ensemble is a Jolly crowd. OF course the
cry Is not always cash" during such shop
ming since after the fiat or the apartment
or the boarding house floor has been chosen,
abe furnishing of all the rooms must be done
at once, while the purchasers cannot by any
means pay on the spot.
But to begin with the bargaining for the
house itself, a study of the matter results in
comparison between renting a fat in the
city and building house in the country,
with the advisory accent upon the latter
course.
These are the opinions of a young man
who has tried both, which are given hero:
81 married" he said, ION SIC week, and
thought that with economy life on starva-
ton rates, rather We could get along for a
time on my income. So | rented three
rooms on the upper floor of a boarding
house at Sl8 month. In one we had an
oil steve on which my wife cooked break
fast. We dined at a French oafe where
table d'hote was so cents. 1t was our one
extravaganza, that 80 cent table d'hote, but
we continued to spend 81 per week from the
Sl3 surplus over rent Six dollars for car
fare, laundry and other items outside Of
dress didn't keep me out OF debt, 80 at the
end of two months we moved to q country
town twenty miles from the city. A build
ing and loan association put up 81 200 cot
tage, for which | am paying at the rate Of
T1aF "a G1Qfl NJ "a
policy, interest and everything.
1--WE boarded in one room until our house
was finished aud l saved $50. With it we
bought carpets and kitchen utensils. Bed
room, parlor and dining room furniture
arranged on the installmenb plan. They
came from one dealer who is getting large
interest because l can't afford more than
another SIP monthly for his collectors. But
! am willing he and the association should
make money out of me in the end for the
sake of having house now. Forty dollars
month we can live on in the country"
This is the plain tale of a man whose in
come is embraced by three figures. But
verify he is in the octopus clutches and is to
be for several years to come.
With s., 200 one can buy nearly every
thing outright, and can live as he chooses in
q fat or a country house. IL he is far
sighted he will build, for the sum which
melts in board bills might with better pur-
pOSO bkEciiS bu6u us W uOusb.
There are risks In sickness and other causes
when he may not be able to make the de-
posits. but they are no greater than others
he must take while living in fiat Suppose,
then, building and loan association builds
a cottage for him beyond the fashionable
suburbs Of mis- city, and suppose he has $500
In the bank. There are four rooms to be
furnished at once-parlor, bedroom, dining
room and kitchen. Carefully itemized the
cost can be brought down to the amounts
given below.
The goods will come from the four quar-
ters of the earth-auction rooms, old furni-
ture shops, "av'noo stores, as the dealers
say, and occasionally from a first-class
house. 1t is not always true that the first
class article is distinguished from its hum
bier plebeian neIghbors either. Probably
you won't care for carpets after you have
priced them The dining room does not
need one anyhow the bedroom may be fin
ished more brightly in eating and the
parlor floor stained dark will do If a couple
of auction sold rugs are on it.
For the dining room four leather chairs
with carved oak back, can be bought at IS
each. These / found at one OK the best
New York houses, the table corresponding
to them, and the cheapest there cost $29.
Two hours later, in Fourteenth street fur
niture house, | came upon the same kind of
O square oak table, with the difference of
rougher carving on the legs and six feet ex-
tension instead of ten, for SIP. It's not
always wisest and safest to buy at the houses
with a name. A sideboard cannot be bought
for less than $50, il it is all bought at one
place Pieoeme0l $50 affair can be OBJ
tanned for S35 or $40 Buy the glass at one
of the wholesale houses where pretty, old
cabinets are specially. A clever carpenter
can fashion very respectable sideooard
for $50. With home varnish and a French
polish executed by your own hands, the
homely oak, above which is hung the cabl-
net, with its little mirrors and mysterious
doors, has evolved into a stately and sristo-
cratic piece of furniture. pretty
diniog room need not cost more than
S72. The bedroom may be furnished more
cheaply than any other room in the house
Fairly respectable mating is sold in so
yard rolls at 81 A bed, large dresser and
weshstand of maple, well, if simply made, ]
found for $780, Light chairs cost from 81 to
81. Three chairs at second hand may cost
ST. Here, then, is the result of q schemer's
determination to drive bargalns-a bedroom
furnished for S45.
The kitchen outfit was promised me by an
enterprising hard ware dealer for $40. The
tins, which included enough kettles, pals.
cans, broilers, cups and basins to go once
around in a brides scientific Parloa receipt
for cake, besides wash boilers, remarkable