The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-07-13
Mrs. Witherby Saves Money.

the other evening. She was playin g
softly in the parlor, and she felt that
even the author of 'sThe~ Young
HouseIzeeper's Guide 60 Happiness"
would approve of her sweet and
| slightly romantic air of domesticity.
But Mr.. Witherby did not seem to
notice it. He kissed her in a very per-
functory way, answered her queries
monosylla' Yically, and gave no word
of praise to the strawberry snow
which Mrs. Witherby had prepared
| for desert.
| At first young Mrs. Witherby was
sure that her husbands love was cool
| ing. Perhaps already another had
usurped her place in his affections.
But hasty mental survey of his fem
mime acquaintance convinced her of
the absurdity of this view. So she
gently asked him to confide in her,
assuring MIN that she was strong
enough to bear the worst Then Mr..
Witherby told her that his salary ad
been reduced. He would no longer
| be able to support her in the style to
which she was accustomed. Twent y
dollars a week instead of $50 was his
income.
Dearest" said young Mrs. Wither-
by, 1--WE will be able to get along
beautifully. You know studied at
cooking school for six months before
our wedding, and mamma allowed me
to do all the marketing. 1 shall send
away the girl and do my own cook
ing. We will have. very plain and
simple food, dear, but it shall be
nOuriShinor and Dalata BILE :"
Darling" murmured Mr.. Wither-
by, ecstatically.
"OEly to-day" went on Mrs. With
erby, growing more interested in the
subject, 81 was reading in The Young
Housekeepers' Guide to Happiness
how to provide for a family of four
two and the girl have spent SIS for
provisions. Dear, it is providential
that this happened before it was too
late for us to reform. [ shall save no
less than $13 a week-the 81 that 1
pay the cook and the 81 that have
foolishly spent on provisions. Trust
your little wife, George. She will
manage"
''My angelo murmured the com
forted and eheered Mr.. Witherby.
And then he pointed out that four
and seven made only eleven.
That evening, with the help of
''The Young Housekeeper's Guide to
Happiness Mrs. Witherby arranged
the bill of fare for the week. Fruit
played an important part in it, for
they both liked fruit, and Mrs. With
erby sagely pointed out that it was
cheaper than meat. Still, meat was
not omitted, for, as she said, it would
be foolish for two persons who had to
work hard to go without sufficient
nourishment The desserts were all
of the simple custard sort, and alto
gether everything looked promising
when the Witherby's entered upon
their first weeks experim Mt.
Saturday evening they sat down on
the divan with the account book be-
| fore them.
cit may not be quite so cheap as
we hoped this week, DEAR" said Mrs.
Witherby, ''for, of course, we'll have
to count the dinners we had at the
restaurant Tuesday when our own
burned and Thursday when I was too
tired to cook. How much did you
spend those evenings?"
Two dollars apiece" answered Mr..
Witherby.
Mrs. Wltherby looked slightly dis
concerted at this announcement, but
turned hopefully to the account book.
This is what they read:
Fourteen grape fruits at IS cents,
$3.50; lemons, 20 cents; haIibut 40
cents; Strawberries, S1.40; chops, 80
cents; beef, so cents; potatoes, "a
cents; asparagus, so cents; almonds,
81: peas, 80 cents; preserved ginger,
so cents; beans 80 cents, toma toes, so
cents, lettuce, 35 cents; tea, so cents:
flour, Sc; cream, Sc cents; milk. %
cents; eggs, SO cents, and butter, so
cents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Witherby surveyed
the total of SIS. 90 with pain AMI sur
prise. They silently added the 81 for
restaurant dinners. Then Mrs
'Yltherby tearfully pointed out that
they would not need barrel of -four
every week, and that anyway the
young housekeeper's eight dollar a
week menus were the ones she fol-
lowed, so that there must be . mis-
take somewhere. Mr.. Witherby
tauntinglv rejoined that the mistake
had been his when he married So
ciety girl and expected her to develop
into homemaker. Then Mrs.
Witherby went into Mysteries. and it
was only by the gift of rs cents worth
OF roses and a pound of 50-cent choco-
Iates that peace was restored in the
Witherby household
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