Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-14
COST OF Welded LIFE.
A Few Facts and Figures That May Boom
the Marriage License Business-How
Divided Expenses Decrease the Total
What n Single Man W astes.

Few Facts and Figures That May Boom
the Marriage License Business-How
| Divided Expenses Decrease the Total
What a Single Man Wastes.
WRITTEN ron THE DIsPArcH.I
An acquaintance of mine remarked to me
| a short time since that he would like to
get married, but that a woman was so ex-
pensive a creature that he was afraid to
chance it. He is bright, young fellow
earning, say S35 week and saving none of
it. took him to task for libeling the fair
sex.
Let us figure little, and presuming, of
! course, that a man is willing to do his part
by giving up his idle, useless expensive and
enervating habits, see if the experience of
many men Will not bear out my results
To say that woman is an expensive Great
ure is, in the abstract, untrue. She is nat
urally economical from the highest to the
lowest type. Man is the opposite. What
does 1t cost to keep a young lady, not in
the "Four Hundred, nor among the slums,
but the daughter of a well-to-do man who
moves in good society? Let us see:
Two new dresses a year, one $50, one s25 S IS
One outer coat and wrap 35
Two pair of shoes. Observation-Disclosures. 12
Summer dresses, linen, hose, gloves,etc.. 25
Millinery and repairs Of hats and bon
Services of seamstress and incidentais... 10
Total. -.......................$lS $50
That is SIS per month. 1t looks small,
doesn't it? Ask some bright, honest young
lady to give you the figures from the actual
experience Of a year, and see how far wrong
they are.
The Increase of Expenses.
Now, suppose you get married. Let us
see how much you increase your expenses
You rent a small modern house for say $50
a month; your wife, if she has been raised
to 'keep house." can pay a servant SIS
month, and can furnish your table with bet
ter meals than you have been accustomed
to get at boarding houses for S35 month
will not go into the details of this item,
but it can be verified in the experience of
many. Your fuel, light and incidentals will
cost you the year round say So a month.
Now, what have We:
Rent for year. ........................$ 800
SeTNdn9 ISO
aapie ..--..-.--..-.---...-.-... 40
uel, e1c; -,-.---..------.--...'.. 6O
"Y our Wife,. ....................... $50
The living have figured on here is COM
paratively luxurious, better than is enjoyed
by most people, and it presupposes life
of ease and comfort and good cheer 1t can
be modified very much. but 1 am figuring
on the Young man with 81, 500 a year who
cannot afford to get married.
Let us see what it costs him TO live. 1t
seems waste of time to go into figures, fo-
at the end of the year 1t is easy for him to
tell you what it costs-S1, 500, possibly
more. Nothing from nothing-nothing
remains
Young Mans Year:y account
Two snits of clothing year, one $780,
One overcoat year, ESQ one year, 40
another, average. age................ so 90
Half dozen shirts, SI2: one dozen /
collars, 50 so; half dozen cuffs, |
50 so; scarts, Sc; hose, $S: under -
wear, 81; handkerchief, 81; shoes,
$50: shaving. s25; boot
black. SIS: cigars, S100; billiards,
$50; theaters, SIS; bar bill, Sl5O;
incfdentals, $780,. 5O............... 4s5 90 |
at 81 week. $50 90
IOtal .........................S 1,OlO %