Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-06-01

enty-five a month out of my pay. That I'D
make $500 savings in a year. Next sum-
mer we could peek around and find a lit
tie plant Of our own to buy on time, and
l could soak the 5000 down on 1T as a first
payment. See?"
She saw, all right. She said IL would be
just g~ra-a-and.
So they started off, right away, to look
for a heap cheaper fat-one 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 now who know hat a $3.50
per month Washington fiat is. But these
two young married folks had the economy
bug bad, n they decided to take the
$22.5 0 fat and to stick out the year in 1t.
IT'S 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 fiat with proclaim tub
and filtered water and mosaic halls and an
elevator rugged out with a d.nge elevator
boy that's never on hand. and all that, for
rs cents per diem. The question Is Are
y~ou-you-game to stick along In the tepee
a year for the purpose Of coping out the
arst payment 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 1st of October last year,
they moved from their cute six-rooms-
and-a-porcelain-bath fiat. with lift and
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 all OF two feet wide; and
they dressed in the hall.
The lining room was so small that the
husband usually SAT- on the window-s.ll to
eat. Thus perched at meals, he made such
a funny hit with his wife hat she jes'
couldn't help but ~laugh-honest! For her
part. she ate her meals while sitting on a
tabouret 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 a 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 fiat
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. If they don't want to visit us here.
they can stay away. I don't want the
kind that visit TO rubber and c~riticise and
knock, anyhow"
When at last winter set in. they found
that the st~eam-heating plant of the fiat was
a phony. They shuddered through the win
ter in their out-of-door wraps. When the
Bennings races dr,fted 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 a day. But they passed the
ponies along. They did the best they could
with their old clothes. They gave the high
| priced theaters the ~faj-a-ma-taj, and only
staked themselves once in a while to quar-
ter seats at the vaudeville. They had. in
general, a real grisly time OF IL.
Since the beginning OF summer this year
they've been poking around town. looking
for a nome TO buy on time. On August Is
they a $500 tucked away In the bank. and
they hadn't taken any summer vacation.
Then the man came into accidental pos
session OF a couple o. passes to and from
| New York. He suggested 10 his wife that
they might as well use the passes-just TO
look the big town over for a coupis OF