El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-14
STORIES OF
THE STREETS

Sometimes it seems there is no use at
all
OF toiling. striving. hoping. day by
day
Yea, toiling till the shades of evening
gather
And from the earth we all are swept
away,
All, But we chase the rainbows to the
last.
And struggle for a goal we cannot see;
Fair Hope allures us on and on forev-
With whisperings of the joys that are
to be.
Ell Paso. Texas. Feb. 12.-Mr. Editor:
will you kindly tell me through the
columns of your valuable paper what in
come in your opinion. young man
ought to have before he contemplates
matrimony in Ell Paso. My salary is
only $50 per month and l feel that l
cannot live another day without Ange-
lima.
Love Sick Bachelor.
Love Sick Bachelor:-Your question
is rather \ hard one to answer. Now
if you were contemplating matrimony
in some eastern city the proposition
would be entirely different If you
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willing to take care of you things
would be greatly simplified but if you
have got to rustic yourself to support
two it would be advisable for you to
think twice before taking the fatal
step.
In order 20 answer you intelligently
your query has been submitted to
three young married couples for esti-
mates. One couple was boarding with
Al, 4 f~Il oil
nicly on SIS per month. Another lived
in a first-class lodging house. dined at
n fashionable restaurant and maintain
ed their position in society on 1925 per
month. while a third pair rented a
house for S25 paid servants $50. a gro
Gerry and meat bill; of $50. coal $40. in
cidentals $25; total. $11O. The young
man in this case earns salary Of 800
per month and runs in debt on the av
erage of $50 per month. At the end OF
five years he says he will have 70 take
advantage of the bankrupt law and let
Referee Rich Burgess figure out his fl
nancial standing.
So you see Love Sick Bachelor"
that it costs something to maintain
family in FL Paso. The foregoing esti
mates made no allowances for chill
dren. So do not be rash and do any
thing that you might afterwards regret.
Keep on with your billing and cooling
in the moonlight and continue TO i'm
agine that you cannot live another day
without her. 1t is mostly imagination.
Take something for your liver and
work hard until you get a raise of sal
airy.
Now if you can find a sweet. confiid-
ing girl whose father desires rather to
gain a son than to loose a daughter.
you might be wise to marry her at
once. But if you are earning only $50
per month and have left the impression
on the mind of the fair one that your
salary is $3.50 would advise you not to
marry at all at present for if YOU do
your dear one is sure to be quickly dis
illusioned and you will have cause to
regret that you deceived her If you
are asking for the hand of this maiden
be fair about it. Tell her father and
mother the truth about your income
and antecedents and if her parents are
satisfied then you will have nothing to
reproach yourself for later, nor can
they reproach you. 1t is the common
belief that many of the young men who
cut a wide swath in society are I'M
able to pay their laundry bills and let
their board bills go by default so as to
have sufficient money to pay the mu-
sicians and coachman. If you are one
of these. do not marry at all. unless
you can find some rich mans daughter
whose father wants to adopt you.
Trusting that I have not ruffled your
feelings by this plain. friendly talk to
you on the subject of matrimony. l
Your Friend.
Stories of the Streets
Relative to DR.. r. c. Flower the
Phoenix Republican says editorially:
An Ell Paso paper of recent date
says: "R. c. Flower and S. l.. Pearce
of New York came in last evening from
Chihuahua and went west this morn
ing to look after mining properties in
eastern Arizona" Let us see. 1t is
not so long ago that buyers of certain
Arizona Eastern and Montana shares
We're looking after DR." r. G. Flower.
The "Dr's." mining properties in east
ern Arizona consists of the Spenazuma.
assays of whose veins. lodges. dips.
spurs and angles show them 20 run
high in suckers.
One thing about FL Paso that often
excites considerable comment is the
fact that there are so few old people. |
1t appears to be strictly a young |
mans town. There are children. plen- |
ty of them-healthy. rollicking little |
chaps all of them-and there are girls: |
bless their bright eyes and rosy cheeks |
but As for the old men and old Ia
iies-the grandmothers and grand |
seem to be in the hope
less minority. They were apparently |
all left behind in the east or north or |
elsewhere when the sons and daughters
emigrated to this far corner of the |
earth and there are few, very few. of |
them to be seen on the streets of FL |
PaSo. 1t is not hard to account for |
his condition of affairs when you con- |
slider that Ell Paso is a new town and |
hat in the opinion of many eastern |