Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-04
NO FORTUNE NEEDED.
A Young Couple Can Still Begin
Housekeeping on $1,000 q Year.
HOW TO GO ABOUT THE SHOPPING.
Figures Which Make Two People Practic-
ally Millionaires.
SOMETHING ABOUT COUNTRY AUCTIONS
WRITTEN FOR THE D1sFATcH.I


!, It is not matter of daughter or ducats;
it is, however, a question of Hymen versus
dollars and cents. A number Of economists
have been spreading heretical beliefs with
their hard-hesded arguments over the i'm
possibility of getting married aud keeping
married on less than So, 900 income. They
assert that the young man Of the period
can't possibly maintain an establishment at
whose head is young woman Of this nm de
steele on an amount W hose initial digit in
dicates something below the 5000 limit.
That may be very true for the exotics
whom We class under the genus fin de
siecles, but there are large numbers OF us
who are not included in that classification.
A certain sturdy strain, mot mentioned by
those luxurious economists, can thrive very
we'll on an income represented by very few
dollars eked out with large amount OF
common sense.
1t is tenable assertion that two people
SO much In love that they are not over
proud can live together neatly on 81, 200 q
year. More, they can marry on it if the
-spendthrift groom has not saved more than
5000 toward the great event.
Upon 81 200 Year.
With 81, 200 he can buy nearly every
thing outright and can live as he chooses In
a fiat or a country house. If he is far
sighted he will build, for the sum which
| melts in board bills might with better pur-
pose strengthen his title to a country house.
| There are risks in sickness and other
causes when he may not be able to make
| the deposits, but they are no greater than
| others he must take while living in q fiat.
Suppose, then, building and loan associa-
! tion builds q cottage tor him beyond the
| fashionable suburbs of his city, and sup
pose he has 5000 in the bank. There are
| four rooms to be furnished at ohce-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 q frst-class
| house. It is not always true that the first
| class article is distinguished from its hum
bier plebian 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 I'm
| ished more brightly in mating, and the
parlor floor stained dark will do if couple
of auction sold rugs are on it.
Cost OF a Pretty Dining Room.
For the dining room four leather chairs,
with carved oak back, can be bought at IS
each, These found at one of the best New
York houses, the table corresponding to
them, and the cheapest there, cost S29. Two
hours later. in aFourteenth street furniture
house, came upon the same kind of q
square oak table, with the difference of
rougher carving on the legs and six feet ex-
tension instead OF ten, for S12 It's not
always wisest and safest to bHy at the houses
with q name A sideboard cannot be bought
for less than $780, it it is all bought at one
place. Piecemeal, $50 affair can be OBJ
tanned for S35 or $40 Buy the glass at one
of the wholesale houses where pretty, old
cabinets are especially. A clever carpenter
can fashion very respectable sideboard for
$2O With home varnish and French
polish executed by your own hands, the
homely oak, above which is hung the cnbi-
net, with its little mirrors and mysterious
doors, has evolved into stately and aristo-
cratic piece of furniture. A pretty dining