Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-07-09
WHAT INCOME IS
ENOUGH FOR MARRIAGE

> like Pierre Lott s countess when re
duced to poverty: "Poor woman. sh
can do without the necessaries of life
but how she will suffer for lack of he
luxW 1es!" 1t Is the part of wisdom
always to count the cost of any under
taking, is one would escape the risk o.
failure. And ii is much easier to drift
into matrimony than to get out of il
when one is once in.
The difficulty appears to be that
young people who marry nowadays de-
s're to Begin where their parents left
OFT. Tho this must be added also the
fact that life is a much more compley
and expensive affair than it was fiftv Or
even thirty years ago 1t was the cor.
Feco thing to be a family man in those
days and every mistress of a household
was prorl of her skill in domestic econ-
omyt making an allowance of So a. week
go as far through a ten-roomed house
as hve times the amount will travel
nowadays through six.roomed fat
Above all, father was not above taking
the children, including the baby in it's
ca0 rage, out upon Sunday afternoon
whale mother staid at home and cook ed
uhe dinner, pair of fowls or a roast
Jodnt with vegetables, and a dessert
made the day before; dinner honestly
PAID for, to which any man in those
days was proud to ask friend
But In these degenerate days things
"e altered sadly, and the man who
would marry at five and twentv mnst
elther be possessed of an independent
income or a sublime belief in himself
ahd hls brid>elect. He must be ready
and willing to forego most of the pleas.
nres ami recreatiohs which custom and
popular habit have converted almost
MO necessities, and he will no douht
@saove- that the young wife of the
"e'S'ht day expects much more and per.
ornis much less than did her mother
unirty Years ago. 1t is not at all
'rooaoie that she win be content 70
u "' nome and darn stockings while
g re"ls aloud from some INN owing t
o'A' Neither will shh regard a game f
whist with the next door neighbor I
delightful break in the monoton 8
month"; nor a semi-occasional visit Il
'"e 'neater as a giddy and exciting 81
version. Moreove-, it scarcely "a %
, expected that she will recognize the p'
''s'enre of such an institution as al
AShday while there is a steam laurdnr OF
'hin reach of the telephone. wi
she wild not submit to wear a dies. or
i'eh has been made over so often tho. VII
'"e heaghoors know it block AWAY Sp
:" sue VIII consider II her lau,fn, va
lson. 0'eiy tur
wherefore the marriaeeablo IN
n OF today, being much wiser tbs ga
MS any business to be. knows OH '
,oos n't ana gently but firmly "a,
'ses matrimOny just as long as hs M ha'
!, 20 'na' 1t frequently happens that .;4 'sn
orc ne himself realizes IL ha IT, 'in
the susceptible age and sa,tIss a sn'
;" INTO a clubman and cors-os Das
4et0f, who, if he misses much hanni ". '.''
:. :" are may at least hug himse,f ~;
Ao eohSelousness that ne il f7eo 80
i HucA OF its responsibilities Des
.tsLip h. Aoro.., ' e'en though ban
! = comes to marriage the mestio, g. O.
's ana cents must be taken into u y
-'s'~IOn' The lovers win ho
's4 70 go ma'hodically into tbe sD,n -
= 0f 'inevitahle EXPENSES ana hal 80 q
them with the funds at comr,a~s s''o
'ses them The wOuldbe husba0a n Tps.l !,
ion before bis sn.f'-g ''g ms exact with
no moe than $1,000 a year. II :. ,.t,l ~
am DO hide .n5 =. =, " IS nothing cato
enough % to be willing to sgbt tss q
OF ME at his side she won,a r. a
ever have time to thiOk - o r.
10 -. make an attempt which I'm MAJ ma