The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1898-12-10
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~vv:y iuuse III orucr WIN run equip.
nent of linen, china, etc. And even il
only a few servants are left these must
De OF the best and must be ready and
waiting for telephone message
The style of living in a country house
need not be as formal as in the city but
there naust be sufficient number of
horses and traps ready at a moment $
notice. so that virtually two stable must
be kept going. We do not bring all our
horses to town, so We are in better shape
tltn some of our friends, and my hus-
hand is capital at keeping up the stables,
so l really don't bother much about that
He is aWfClly good about most things,
AMI does not limit me in the money 4
spend. But this autumn he has asked
me once or twice if did not think I was
rather rushing it. and, certainly, when
we stopped to think of it. to be paying
over $500 for a. hat and $500 for cloak
or gowr, does seem somewhat extrava-
CANT.
I suppose it is all the effect of the war,
for every one has told me that after the
Civ:l WEI there was the greatest out
break of eXtravag ance and that people
adopted style of living far and away
ahead of anything that had ever been
seen before, so this is probably just a
rtr etition of the same thing. Il
I certainly do not intend to set up as a
social reformer, and all I can do is to
make the best showing possible on our
moons OF $4,000. / have not the least
intention of doing what lots of my friends
40, and that is ordering my household
ana my expenses on the same grade as
the women who have incomes of double
that amount and I am not one of those
silly people who say you cannot live in
New York on 100000 a year and go out
in society.
It is perfectly possible thing to do,
although 1T does care for careful man
agement in looking after small expenses.
for have always been a good manager,
and have that much in my favor Our
income is an assured one, and there is no
reason Why we should not have very
good time, although we are nothing like
as we'll off as most of the people we
know. ~ ~ .-' -
There is one item that does amount up
IN a way that is very trying, and that is
the fashionable charity expense. I am
asked to be patroness for all the different
smart entertainments. for which the ticE-
cts are now sold at S. and upward. AS
a ratroness have to dispose of from
ten TO twenty tickets. Every woman T
Know IS also made a patroness, and has
tickets. so that cannot possibly dispose
OF more than one of the tickets allotted
to me, and the only thing for me to do
~ oSAASt
and look pleased.
This would be all very well if 1t didn't
happen every two or three days. Last
winter the amount Of money spent in
this way was fearful, and this season the
demand has begun earlier than ever. It
does signify a certain amount of social
standing to be patronesses at smart en-
tertalnments and T suppose this must be
counted in as one of the unavoidable ex-
penses Incidental to being in the social
swim 1 shall allot a thousand for this
one item and try and save it somewhere
else. %|
But positively am SO put to it to know
now to. make both ends meet that 7 often
think that the woman who has 81. 500 q
year cannot have any more long lines of
hgures than I do. She may feel badly
at the thought she cannot meet some Of
her oils. but then it is not necessity for
her to buy the absurdly extravagant
things am forced into in order to keep
my position, for it would be the height
OF business folly, on my husbands ac
count and the girls if were to do any
thlng which would imply that we were
lett behind in this silly race for social
supremacy. -