Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-17

than four collars a week. and when the
laundry bill comes in he finds it foots up
20 cents. The girts is = cents.
There are hundred little things that she
can do for herself kvhereshe stands helpless.
She shampoos and mani cures herself, while
he pays 10 or 20 dents every few weeks to
have his hair cut. She Smends and cleans
and presses her own clothes; he pays some
times $1.50 in month to have his kept in
order.
On the little selftndulgences she will save
money where he won't. He probably
smokes; if not constant smoker one pack
age of S5-cen. toeecc will keep his pipe
busy for a week. ffe wants his own drinks
and he wants to buy the other fellows oc-
sionally; he may get through on two
beers a day, or-he may pay for several
cocktails. which makes fhe price of drown
ing sorrow leap from 10 to 60 or IS cents a
day. The girl one$1a will deny herself ice
cream sodas and the other things she likes;
If she has practical soul she will count on
somebody else paying for them. On the
occasional holiday trips or to the theater
his expenses double and hers are none
at all.
The Dreadful Extras.
Allowing each IS cents a week for the
countless small sundres, such as postage
stamps and telephones, the mans weekly
expenses foot UP to $12 and the girls TO So,
in round numbers. On what is left they
must dress and pay the occasional large
bills that arise-dentists bills, Christmas
gifts, journeys
The girl has 81 more than he to dress on
and, If she is a genius with the needle, she
can look we'll on less than he. She can
make her shirt waists and collars and hats.
Perhaps the goods for a pretty silk waist
fluffy gown comes among her Christ
mas presents, and she puts in several even
ings making herself ready for splurge.
Nobody ever gives him a dress suit. He
must refuse all invitations where full dress
is dc rigeur, if he means to save closely.
He must restrict himself to dinner coat
functions, where he wear the dinner
coat provided he has it, with the trousers
of his ordinary black suit
Allow them each 500 year for dress and
she will have a far greater variety If
she would only remove her heart from the
feather boa that it is set upon she could
have all the square meals she needs.
If she does this. she is far better off on
her $15 than is he. She dresses better, she
lives in better room, she can accept many
plea SAINT invitations without being Op-
pressed by obligations; sometimes she has
a bank book. She is a very contented
young woman, while he is annoyed all the
time by the inability to spend as he sees
other men around him spend.
AS their salaries increase the same rule
holds good At s25 he owns a good dress
suit which brings upon him still more en-
barrassment in the wish to use it more.
The girl at $50 is boarding in a better
house, where more dress is required. but
she still uses her own needle, and as she
is alone and boarding, nobody expects her
to play hostess except for an occasional
matinee or informal tea. He is confronted
with cab and candy and cut flower and
theater ticket needs, and he is with men
who spend more.
Joins a Club-But She?
At $50 she is not obliged to live in a bet
ter house. His dress has ceased to cost
more, for once with a complete outfit he
can do without variety; but he has at
tempted the social stunt in small way
by this time. He is joining a club-ex-
penses amount fabulously and the income
is small.
But" says a student of human nature.
1T you cross the great gulf to those who
have their thousands to dispose of in the
course of each year, don't the bachelor men
look happier than the bachelor maids?
Isn't 1t the girl who is fretful and restless
and fault-finding? Isn't it the man who
spends joyfully,. if the spending and the
living brought pleasure? Isn't it true that
woman, cheerful heroine in poverty.
f1inches mserably when it comes to bear
ing up under prosperity?'