The Wichita daily eagle., 1892-12-01
WEDLOCK AT LOW COST.
After Two Days Shopping the Fig
ure Has Been Fixed
Furniture from Queer Places Il Bargain
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Goods and Their
AdvaatagesLSometh About
Country Auctions.



It Is not q matter of daughter or
d1lcats; it is, however, q question Of
Hymcn versus dollars and cents A
number Of economists have been spread
ing heretical beliefs with their hard
headed arguments over the impossib bill
ity of getting married and keeping
married on less than q 5000 income.
They assert that the young man of the
period can't possibly maintain an estab-
lishment at whose head is young
woman of this fin de siecie on an amount
whose initial digit indicates something
below the $4,000 limit That may be
very true for the exotics whom we class
under the genus fin de steele, but there
are large numbers of us who are not in
cluded in that classification A certain
sturdy strain, not mentioned by those
luxurious economists, can thrive very
well on an income represented by very
few dollars, eked out with large
amount Of common sense.
1t Is tenable assertion that two peo-
pie SO much in love that they are not
over proud can live together neatly on
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it if the spendthrift groom has not
saved more than $500 toward tho great
event
Hagglings with retail dealers, hard
wrung bargains with wholesale houses
and notifications Of the flesh at Sec
ond-hand shops troop alongside the
81. 200 pair, but the ensemble is a jolly
crowd. Of course the cry is not always
"Cash" during such shopping, since,
after the hat or the apartment or the
clearinghouse Aoor has been chosen,
the furnishing of all the rooms must be
done at once, while the purchasers can
not by any means pay on the spot.
But to begin with the bargaining for
the house itself, study of the matter
results in a comparison between rent
ing fat in tho city and building q
house in the country. with the advisory
accent upon the latter course.
These are tho opinions Of young
man who has trisd both. which are
given here: II married." he said, ION
$16 week, and thought that with
economy (life on starvation rates, rath
er) we could get along for time on my
income. So l rented three rooms on the
upper floor of boarding house at s1S
a month. In one we had an oil stove
on which my wife cooked breakfast.
We dined at French cafe where table
d'hote was 50 cents. It was our one ex-
travagaDee, that 50-cent table d'hote,
but we continued to spend 81 per week
Gs~
dollars for car fare, laundry and the
other items outside of dress didn't keep
me out of debt, SO at the end of two
months we moved to a country town
twenty miles from the city. A building
and loan association put up a 81 200 cot
age for which I'm paying at the rate
of s12 per month. This covers the in
surance policy, interest and everything.
eve boarded in one room until our
house was finished and I saved $50.
With it we bought carpets and kitchen
utensils. Bedroom, parlor and dining
room furniture l arranged on the in
stallment plan. They came from one
dealer who is getting large interest be-
cause ! can't afford more than another
sl2 monthly for his collec tors. But I
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 man
whose income is embraced by three fig
ures. But verify he is in the octopus
clutches and is to be for several years
to come.
With 81, 200 one can buy nearly every
thing outright and can live as he
chooses in fiat or a country house. If
he is far-sighted he will build, for the
sum which melts in board bills might