The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-04-19

half as many hats: about million shirt
waists, four pairs OF shoes half a doz IN
pairs of slippers or ties or whatever the
low-cut things with high-cut heels and
beads and buckles and such, are called.
a box OF gloves, and handkerchiefs to suit
the taste, asthe recipe books say.
-Of my own raiment / know more. IL
includes, evening clothes not counted,
four suits year, three pairs of shoes, three
hats-one straw, light and heavy over
coat once In two years, q raincOat when the
one In Use leaks, half . doxsn cravats, four
pairs Of gloves and q white mans usual
supply OF underclothing. The boy goes
through or grows out Of six suits a year.
two overcoats, four hats, four pairs OF
gloves and a pair Of shoes about every
fifteen minutes.
Fortunately for us. we haven't had a
great deal OF illness in the family. In seven
years doctors. nurses and drugs have cost
me, l should say not more than 5000,
or little less than $500 year.
And something less than $500 . year
has paid the total cost OF the living Of this
family Of three and two servants. Maybe
some folks think we haven't lived At AL.
Maybe we haven't, but we think We have.
which amounts TO the same thing.
AT any rate. there are no debts. and We
have managed TO keep up our end OF tho
contributions to the boys account 10 the
savings bank made by his other relatives:
Il would hardly be frank, however. II
omitted to add that our share Of that very
respectable savings bank account repro.
sents about our only surplus.
How have you done ltp' asked THE Sun
man.
ASK my wife she's done Il all. She has
no habits. not even the candy habit, and
about the only expensive one have y the
tobacco habit. Three cigars, at . totll
cost Of 70 cents, and the cost Of dozen
,,.pefuls Of toba eco pay the cost Of that
hk.h
''' therefore il isn't economy on habits
that has ens bled W. to live on less than
S',5OO. The Missus does her own Market
ing and her own shopping and che knows
TO know on which side Of the street In any
one block she can buy Q peck Of beans, for
instance, tivs chA.p0. Ahe makes her
green grocer come down 10 the other lei
lows price or she goes asross the ssrest.
and keeps track Of the sales In the shops.
She tells me she saves na,rly Is per cent.
on purchs ses of dry goods by ~ doing. A
she wouldn't wear n re,dy-mide garment
II you gave II to her, she stves on cost Of
m,terDl that she may have more TO spend
and this reminds me to say that when
i spoke OF my own clothing, meant Gus
tom. made clothes. They haven't learned
yet 70 turn out ready-made clothing that
will IN me.
There is another thing that my wife cuts
corr ers on. and that is street car fares
II she h. a lot Of trading to do, she lays
out the route before she st,rts and 30 lays
il out that II will include all the free trans
fers possible II you've never done this
try IL, and you'll be a ma red at the number OF
nickels you save.
Il know plenty Of men who live better
than ! do on q fun thirty-fve hundred q
some In Harlem and the middle West Side.
l hh We been told that the downtown fell
lows-thLt In, those who live routh OF Forty
second street-have the hest Of market
prices, since uptown grocers and butchers
and the like charge from cai.t to cents
a pound more for their goods than the
downtown tradesmen do. ,-y
However that may be, know thatSi1oo
year provides a home with m my. com
forts and some Injuries, and when herr
that q man can't keep out OF debt on W.
"A week ] feel sure that he ought 10 send
for a plumber to stop the leak.