The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-07-22
olO AGE AND WORKING WOMAN
WAGE GARNER WHO WAS ABLE
no PUT BY SO A WEEK, TELLS
HOW SHE SAVED UP A
HOME.


clever Woman on a Salary May
p-snare Delightful Refuge
,noinst the Time of Grey Hairs,
,vorn Nerves and Dread of De-
pendence.
New York, July 2o.-Within thirty miles
NJ New York there lives an enterprising
young woman who tells this interesting
stor, Of the provision she has made
AGAINST the evil day. Her simple tale
sounds sensible and may fertilize the
minds of other working women with as
niratons towards a country home.
How did it all come about? Why sup
pose every woman who sits at a desk in
The ,ty has a vague idea of some time
making some sort of home for herself.
After few years of Office work and
boarding. there is a restlessness and home
sickness. Then, as she grasps the fact that
the days of the working woman are num-
bered. that in the office the hoary head
is not a crown OF glory, that her salary
is utterly inadequate to provide a compe-
tence for declining years the mere desire
for home is swallowed up in a sickening
dread of the future with the dim outlines
of an old ladies' asylum in the back
ground. Not cheerful outlook.
Swing Three Dollars and "a Half "A
Week.
After eight years of toll and MOL on
a salary never above and frequently much
below twenty-five dollars a week, found
Alto in,
the bank l knew I was unequal to eight
years more hard work and even then
should not have saved enough 10 live out
side of an institution. While a year of
nervous break down might leave me where
began
Two Of my acquaintance had invested
their savings in renting and furnishing
house 10 secure refuge for the future,
but I am peculiarly unsuited to that sort
of thing, besides my mind had always
been filled to overlooking with the idea of
country place buried in roses and lilac.
BY preference should have bought re-
mote abandoned farm, but had to consider
first, proximity to a source of consump-
ton when l should have a supply of farm
produce TO consume, and above all access
sibility during the remainder of my wage
earning days when labor at the desk must
support my farm. or rather, put it into
shape to yield an income and support me.
A Sensible Investment.
Il finally found this place an hour and
a half from New York, and less than
dollar for the round trip, and most impor-
tant of all will hin a few miles of two of
the largest and richest of suburban towns
where the highest prices are always OBJ
tainable for the very best things. Land
is d5ar, hereabout two hundred dollars
,cfp
found my farmer with thirty odd acres
and a queer little old tumbledown house
all Of which he valued at 81 090 an utterly
impossible sum for me lacking as l do
courage for debt.
Now my dream is to be shut off from
the highway but the average farmer
within easy distance of New York dreams
of the time when farms shall be no more,
and building lots shall cover the earth
as the waters cover the sea, to
his great enrichment Therefore when I
proposed to my farmer to keep his road
land and the home of his ancestors and
sell me the back land with a right of
way to the road he was delighted, and
asrfe ed to let me have the portion 1 want
ed for $50 an acre, his valuation on the
entire property being about 800 an acre.
Each thought the other lacking in judg-
ment ana was pleased with his own bar
gain The land was measured out exactly
according to my stature $l400 in cash,
equivalent to 231s acres. only four acres of
which were Gear, the rest being wood
land and brook
In September 1 got the deed. imme-
ciately bought and borrowed books and
papers on agriculture and sent to Wash
ington for farmers bulletins. 1 had also
much conversation with neighboring far
mer folk. I compared the written with the
sooken word and learned much from both.
MY farmer didn't farm. He bought
produce and sold it at retail in the
big town where prices were high. Among
my assets were several very fine winter
apple trees and a number of ounce trees.
MY farmer picked six barrels of the choic-
est apples and gave me 81 for them and
u Tor many baskets of large ounces. The
small ones | made into jelly, which sold
Tor S. total $lS
then sought my next neighbor the
man with The plow, and arranged with
MN to break up all my clear land at his
convenience, and to receive and set out
small fruit which l had ordered
from the nursery fifty currants and a
dozen each of the different berries. The
labor cost me $12, ($4.5O per day, team and
nam the bushes $500. This was all
uo mat fan, and expenses and expendi-
lures balanced from necessity mainly.
Raising u ROof-Trec.
II was not idle during the winter in the
VHy however. Old clothes were woven
mo rag rugs and the drippings from my
taS boiler were saved, and with a few
cenls worth of potash made into great
'uhes OF soap, which figured largely in the
ulehard Development But above all l
WORKED out the plan for a place to live
a. "hen spring came. l decided to be-
=" with a large poultry house, use that
.ApeHence in building the barn, and let
tNe mouse come when all this accumulat ted
sNP'i'ehce had ripened. I made trip
lhe country when my plan was per-
e'ed' but the builder there could not
"eaned from tradition which rever-
,,'el the highway and set at naught the
nv oI'ous sunset on the western hills.
-ugIelore we parted.
~ the evolution of this home I de-
elmlned to mount my own hobbies and
ebnipe down the primrose path. would
s ~" mat cabin with rings on its fingers
,b,. oeIs on its toes If l so pleased To
ta '9 ehd consulted the carpenter who
n-,' cunningly devised furniture for
wy Vlty den. which in it's varied utility
We as cloud by day and fire by night.
mn vent out with a helper from the city
dI1, H ten days l had cabin 16x32 feet
,''u INTO three rooms, and whenever
ca was a place to put one, a fine old
u,ntn'ht window (from the second hand
''F yard, price 81 each)
Interior EiIments.
,,r ne sheathing paper was so soft in
a Naala..