The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-19
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 lCopyright. 1906. by Joseph E. Bowles.)
 IL all aepenas on your idea of the
 meaning o1 the aoJecIlve small as ap-.
 pllsd Lv an income.
 l have known couple who started
 in lire with what their friends thought flying colors. The man had pusi-
 ness berth with q saairy ot $Ss0uu a year. The mans wife went to mousse keeping with hlm in a beautiful house furnished completely from roof 70
 basement by her liberal father. Her mother agreed to give her all her clothes just as when she had been girl st home. At the end of year these two people came to their re- spective parents, and with tears and protestations declared that they could not live in town on the meager plttance of her husband'e salary. Either they must have twice as much money or else they must emigrate to some cheap country place. Parents proving inexorable. the establishment l in town was broken up and messieur and madame betook themselves to a rural environment. What became of them never learned, or whether they discovered Utopia in q cheap village, Eff such village there be under the Extravagant people can run through immense sums without much trouble. | It is only necessary to want every thing one sees. buy everything one wants. take no care of anything. do nothing ones self and be wasteful and I Iimprovident generally. to achieve bril- liant success in this direction.
 l All over this country there are peo- | pie who have solved the problem of living comfortably on incomes that
 range from $500 or $f.0oo to ss.0o0 a year.
 l The first thing to be thought of is Eshelter. place to protect one from | the weather and to provide one's fam lily with the outside shell of that I sweet intangible thing we call home, is the initial requisite. The home be- | ing selected. its furnishings comes next; this may be simple or elabo- rate. costly or inexpensive. It may be and often Is, fully as artistic and fully as refined and beautiful when 1t cost l has been trifiing, as when large stms have been absorbed in the item of upholstery, of chairs, tables, wall pa- i per and decorations.
 If it be practicable to build and own one's home, 1t is in the long run an economical procedure. as in a few I years rent eats up In actual cash a sufficient amount to buy and wholly pay for q comfortable home. It is not an unwise thing to have a mortgage | OH tHS nome No DGBAl- WILL II tbefS fe enough forethought and self denial tc make payments and reduce it annual I ly. until the house Is altogether one's Town.
 | A great deal of wastefuI expenditure l is incurred by those who have the tod | prevalent American habit of frequent Il ly changing their residences. At times Il this tendency almost indicatessa a nor bid and diseased social restlessness P-opIe move apparently only to try
 another house on another street. wEer
 there Is not the least advantage gained by the change and considerable money
 and strength are lost fin the needless
 removal.
 People who make study of it Ant
 who have very small incomes ot
 which to draw, have assured me tha they can live best by purchasin, household supplies in very smAl
 quantities In Paris where frugalit, is reduced to it's lowest terms. tn, | f