The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-07-24
SAVING GERMANS.

family. consisting of a wife, three sons
and a daughter babe goodby to their
friends in Germany and started for
America to make their fortune; today
they are back among their friends with
4 fortune that is sufficient to remove
all financial worry, their sojourn in thu
country having proved so successful
that they accumulated $10,920 during
their stay here. Mr.. Cuinen said JUS
before his departure for his Lative land
that he planned to buy a flour mill and
engage in business which Will Civ \
them a social position that they little
dreamed of when they started out five
years ago.
1t was in May, 1903, that this family
of German immigrants arrived in the
village of Housatonic and began work.
in the Monument mills. They all
worked father, mother and children.
who, although in their teens were old
enough to perform the tasks to which
they weer assigned, says the Spring
field, Mass, Union. All the earnings
went into the common treasury from
which all expenses We're paid Of
course, they lived frugally. a thing
they had learned we'll in the old coun-
try where the high cost of living"
is unheard of by people of their sta
ton in life. 1t is said that the wages
of the daughter which averaged about
Sc a week was sufficient to pay all the
running expenses and all the rest went
into the steadily growing fortune. OF
course, the father of the family did not
play the stockmarket when he got the
first 500 nor did he consider that
having saved the first $1,000 he was Oh
the road to great wealth. He did not
buy house and mortgage it to pay for
an automobile in which his wife and
daughter could display their style and
arouse the envy of the other women
If the neighborhood so that they gos-
siped about how the Cuinens managed
to make both ends meet. He didn't
belong to any club, a pipe solaced him
more than a 25-cent perfecto and beer
quenched his thirst better than cham
payne.
Mrs. Cuinen didn't spend her time
and her husbands money trying to keep
Up with the style nor call on her fash
ionable neighbors to discuss Che SER
want girl problem. She never dreamed
of going to the theater three nights a
week, giving receptions and contribut-
ing to the country club.
AS for the children, they were
brought up in the way they should go
and they knew better than to get off
the path in which they We're to walk.
Sister didn't go to finishing school,
she had no time for parry dresses. she
did not ruin her digestion with col
ege ices nor addle her brain with
Senseless novels. The boys were not
sports" they may not have been good
elbows. In fact one may be sure of
i because to help accumulate s1O920 in
i've years time they didn't have any
spare change to "set EN- up" with:
they never got into a dress suit nor
spent the "old mans cash in taking
The girls out to ride. In truth the
whole family was as unsociable a lot
rs one could find in days journey.
But they kept their eyes on the main
chance and they won. Now, with their
fortune in the old country they can
have all the society they want.
How did they do it? Their pay en-
velopes weren't marked much over $40
week. but with six working, the small
wages they could earn totaled a pretty
good-sized sum. 1t is said that after
the expenses We're paid with what the
daughter earned. they managed to put
away S42 every week. They lived &C.
onomically but We're we'll nourished and
We're free from sickness and in this
way they succeeded Of course this
isn't the ideal American life. but as
Americans as well as every other ma
tlonality are after the money, the
success of the Cuinens is a good object
| lesson
And yet it is said that the day when
man can start without a dollar and
make fortune. is passed in this coun-
try.