Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1906-06-07

cnty-five a month out Of my pay. That 'ud
make $500 savings in n year. Next sum-
mer we could peek around and And a lit
tie plant of our own to buy OH time. and
| could soak the $500 down on 1t as a first
payment. Sce?"
She saw. all right. She said it would be
just gra-a-and.
So they started or. right away. to look
for a heap cheaper fiat-onc for about
$3.50 per month. They landed one. away
out on the outskirts, after a long search.
There are several hundreds OF sad-eyed
young married men and women in Wash
ington right TOW who know what a $3.50
per month Washington Nat Is. But these
two young married folks had the economy
bug bad. and they decided to take the
S22. 50 fiat and to stick out the year in 1t.
ITS pretty gummy. all right" the young
man said, looking the fiat over with no
very joyous expression. but we can't ex-
pect to snag out a nat with proclaim tub
and filtered water and mosaic halls and an
elevator rugged out with a d.nge elevator
hoy that's never on hand. and all that, for
70 cents per diem. The question IL Are
y-Ou-you-game to stick along in the tcpee
a year for the purpose OF coping out the
! .:rBt YIN on a home of our own"
| Well, was she? She invited him to look
her over and decide that for himself.
And SO, on the LIST OF October last year.
they moved from their cute six
| aOO.8. pOrCeldln-D0lN nat, WIN hit anu
hardwood trimmings. to the fiat with
| three rooms. each of about the size Of a
skirt trunk. with one OF those little white
painted bath tubs. the enamel of which,
half-pelled. has a rough and raspy feel
ing to the bather.
They had TO poke the bed into the parlor,
and the bureau and chiffonier into the
hall. which was ali Of two feet wide: and
they dressed in the hall.
The dining room was SO small that the
husband usually sat on the window-s.ll to
cat. Thus pcrchcd at meals. ne made such
a funny hit with his wife that she jes'
couldn't help but ~laugh-honest: For her
part. she ate her meals while sitting on a
abouret placed beneath the table. The
only part OF her person visible to her hus-
band at meals was her hands. when she'd
reach up from underneath the table to
grab OF n biscuit. or something like that.
But they were at last in a position to
save money. -
''This JOINT isn't such a bird as to looks
the man said. comfortingly. when the nat
was fixed up. but we're not mixing up
with the diplomatic bunch this year. and
we're not keeping house for other people.
either. II they don't want to visit us here.
they can stay away. l don't want the
kind that visit to rubber and c~riticise and
knock. anyhow"
at last winter set~tn. they found
thatthe x~team-hcating plant of the fiat was
a phony. They shuddcrcd through the win
ter in their Out-nf-door wraps. When the
Bennings 'riues 1rsfted along last fall and
last spring they read the entries and the
results. and both Of them. Of course. since
they stayed away from the track. picked
SIX winners q day. But they passed the
ponies along. They did the best they could
with their old clothes. They gave the high
priced theaters the raj-a-ma.taj. and only
stakcd Themselves once In a while to quar-
ter seats at the vaudeville. They had. in
general. q real g.isly time OF it.
Since the beginning Of summer this year
they've been poktng around town. looking
for a home to buy on time. On August IL
they had $500 tucked away in the bank, and
they hadn't taken m summer vacation.
Then the man came into accidental pos
session OF a couple of passes to and from
New York. He suggested to HIS wife that
they might as welt use the passes-just to
look the big town over for a coup,, Of