The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-18

| t1neS tea or coffee, and this is ONLY,
10 or 10 cents. We girls get our own
breakfast"
And what does that breakfast GOV,
| sist of?'
Coffee and toast. Sometimes We
give ourselves a treat and have eggs
| When we do that we save by boiiing
the eggs in the coffee so that the gas
bill won't rise
This is close economy, but MANY q
glrl on that income does get her own
| breakfast. Plenty of her are fed on
$3.50. Over against that place the
mans figures-$5. rs. Her S6 70,
room and board stands opposite his
In case these bachelors live at a dis
lance from their work there will he an
cents week invested in carfare. Dis
tances being equal, the man will he
| more likely to save this amount. or
part of 1T, than the woman, for walk
ing is easier for him in bad weather.
In laundry, however, she has the
advantage. She washes out her own
handkerchiefs, collars, dozens of small
articles and sometimes large ones.
1T IS easy as washing your face"
| she says.
Not to him. 1t is one of those in
finite feminine mysteries. He can't
wear fewer than four collars a week
and when the laundry bill comes in he
finds it foots up rs cents. The girls
is IS cents.
There are hundred little things
that she can do for herself where he
stands helpless. She shampoos and
| manicures herself, while he pays Is
or 20 cents every few weekes to have
his hair cut. She mends and cleans
and presses her own clothes; he paws
sometimes $3.50 in a month to have
his kept in order.
IN ha
Will save money where he won't He
probably smokes if not a constant
smoker one package of 35-cent tobac-
co will keep his pipe busy for a week
He wants his own drinks and he wants
to buy the other fellows occasionally;
he may get through on two beers a
day, or he may pay for several cock
tails, which makes the price of drown
ing sorrow leap from 10 to so or Is
cents day. The girl on SIS will de-
ny herself ice cream Sodas and the
other things she likes; if she has a
practical soul she will count on some
body else paying for them. On the oc-
casional holiday trips or to the theater
his expenses are double and hers are
none at all.
Allowing each rs cents a week for
the countless small sundries, such as
postage stamps and telephones, the
mai . HSShly cAp6IlSSS lOOl up 10 4lS
and the girls to IS. in round numbers.
On what is left they must dress and
pay the occasional large bills that
arise-dentist's 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 q cillr uaie CT
fluffy gown comes among her Christ
mas presents and she puts in several
evenings making herself ready for
splurge.
Nobody ever gives him a dress suit.
He must refuse all invitations where
full dress is de rigeur, if he means
to save closely. He must restrict him
self to dinner coat functions, where he
can wear the dinner coat, provided he
has it, with the trousers of his ordi-
nary black suit.
Allow them each 800 a 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 SIS than is he. She dresses
better, she lives in a better room, she
can accept many pleasant invitations
without being oppressed by obliga-
ton; sometimes she has a handbook.
She is a very contended 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 SIS he owns
good dress suit, which brings upon
him still more embarra ssment in the
wish to use it more. The girl at $25
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 oc-
casional matinee or informal tea. he
is confronted with cab and candy ana
cut-fiower and theater ticket needs,
and he is with men who spend more.
At $50 she is not obliged to live IN
a better house. His dress has ceased
to cost more, for once with COM
plete outfit he can do without varle-
ty; but he has attempted the soclal
stunt in a small way by this time. He
is joining a club-eXpenses mount
fabulously and the income is small.
But" says a student of human ma
ture, "if you cross the great gulf 10
those who have their thousands to dis
pose of in the course of each year.
don't the bachelor-men look happier
than the bachelor-maids? Isn't 1t ths
girl who is fretful and restless anu
fault-finding? Isn't it the man VINO
spends joyfully, as if the spending anu
the living brought pleasure? Ism II
true that woman, a cheerful heroine
in poverty, f1inches miserably Wheh
it comes to bearing up under Nf
perity?-