Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-06-01
PLAN THAT FAILED.
From the Washington Star

From the Washington Star.
There's a certain young married COUPE
in this town, who. after a year oL SUI
economy, have now forever forsworn, fru-
eaIity. They have firmly declared their
intention to give the saving habit the
perennial pass-along.
There is a little story behind the dislike
with which they now regard the economlz-
ing habit.
The male one-eighth Of the matrimonial
sketch is a young man with a 5000 bllet.
The couple haye been married for about
four years. Up to about this time last
year they were living up to the last piastre
OF the 5000 per annum.
They occupied a $55-a-month fiat, and the
remainder Of the salary bank-roll went for
such chicken-feed expenses as food SER
vant hire, buds, smokes. theaters, car
fares, gas and so on.
Both of the young married people were
fond Of watching the gee-gees wallow
around the Benning m~erry-go-round at the
two annual racing meetings. and, as regu-
larly as the th~oroughbreds reached Ben
ming. they were-of course-shredded and
set back quite severely. But, oh, they sure
did love to see 'em rum!
Along about this time last year they
both were seized by the economical bug at
the same time. 1t was the ho~me-acquiring
microbe that thus simultaneously grabbed
them.
Lets stop being cut'ups," the man said
TO his wife one day last September. land
get a roof of our own over our heads"
II was just exactly what she herself had
been thinking, and she said SO with en-
thusiasm.
First thing / know he went on, elo-
q~ueutly, III be an old no-account nuis-
ance. Here 1 am, t~hirty-flve already; and
at thisr rate, by the time I'm forty. / won't
have a c~ollar-button. It's time we cut out
being such hoydens and saved something
for a shack of our own, what?"
She'd just been going to say the same
thing herself for weeks past. only she'd
been afraid that he might think that she
wanted to have him deprive himself OF a
little fun occasionally, etc.
Fun, nothin," he said. austerely. I'm
getting tired of the kind o. fun hat keeps
us up against 1t on the dough question all
the time--nothin' in 1t. And / sure don't
intend TO get to be an old yamigan Of forty
without having a tin roof. anyhow. TO
show for my arduous labors in the vine
yard"
The tumultuous applause from his wife
which this exalted sentiment called for
was hisn'n. of course.
Now" he went on, tits just this way:
Here we are. coughing up ffty-five per
lunar month for this fat. That's a big
gouge, that ffty-ive. The furniture that
we We GOT uot5a u'eSSurc up " tne nat
The flats all right, but the furniture with
which it's furnished is a heap taddy. Now,
on October the first the agent of this fatn
pass IL along to me to sign a lease for an
other year. IL / do that, I'll want TO herd
one of the installment men up In a corner
OF as plant and take everything he's got
In stock away from him on the excite
fnent plan. / wouldn't LEI the furniture
that we've got now live In this fiat with
me for another hull wear. eli, the raid
that I'D make on the instalnment house 'ud
ser me back another four or five hundred.
But II we make up our minds 10 econo-
mizc, we can get a cheaper fat-a three
or four room Gink. If necesserv-and Just
camp out for a year. The furniture that
we've already got Will do all right for the
fhea per and smaller w.ckieup. and we
ws,lldn't have to .uy so mulch Is a what
not. and we could stuff away o sew