The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-03-31
BY JOHN YoUNGLOVE.
CHAPTER ".

CHAPTER ~.
And now We plunged
From the gloom OF the boarding
house we swung our pendulum too
far the other way We passed up
cheaper apartments all Of Which
are more or less announcement. and
chose one whose large. airy rooms.
pleasant oatlook. Eood noishbor
hood and all seemed TO us 60 be
about Ideal
Hut the rent was $50 per month.
And WAS earning but see per
week
THAT was our first mistake. oar
second Nas that We we're caught b.
the allurlng terms OF an instailmeni
house and bought our household
equipment there Our outtit Was
not expensive. but n cost us about
sit0. And FOR nearly seven months
I went each week 90 the Install
meat house and laid down a 81
blll After the first flush of new
possession Was gone. IL seemed A.
Il had taken a s. cut 10 my
weekly wages
Wasn't tire Worst
Bat this wasn't the worst 81 a.
After feM weeks the shoddy fuf.
nlture for which We had paid top
prices began 20 show the effects
IL the steam heated fiat The easy
chair that had looked 80 luxurious
In the cool basement q the tprnt
ture store collapsed one day and
thHev me 10 the floor And the
varnish on the handsome library
table began 10 suck into the GREY.
ices Of the grain
Il took ~ about three months
10 find out we had been taken In
b. the iustallmenf house tand we
we're stiil paying our weekly irib-
utel. And about that time. too,
we realized our mistake 10 taxing
the high priced apartment. The
furniture cut our weekly income
10 SIS per week We never once
succeeded Ia making two weeks
salary pay for months use q the
flat There was always some un.
expected purchase 10 De made. and
Il verify seemed a. u I bad 10 work
an entire month just 90 pay my
rent
Cot IN Debt.
We not only saved no money. but
managed 20 create debt In other
places at about the same rate We
g0i rid Of Il NJ the furniture house
We had reached thar iameuiable
plight q always being Just a little
behind the game a discussion 81
our affairs always lett as 10 mel
anch0iy silence
We had gone from enc extremt
70 the other Ia our blind CROPPING
20 reach an economical mode 81
living: first. period q cheap dis
comfort. then q spell Of expensive
comfort But az last we saw th'
goal toward which we we're siriY
inR-the most comfort possible
consistent Wlth our income
The Incident which opened 0u
eyes Was e conversation we over
heard between two of our neigh
h0rs We learned that the man of
cupying the suite below as nn'
paying the same rent drew an an
nual salary Of $4,000. and that vi
were earning far less money thai
any other family In the building
Va Moved Nov.
Right then we decided % move
And we resolved that never agail
would We live ia o place the month
lee - Ha.H. Ha.7H
with one weeks salary envel1pf
When q yOunK couple has learuc
that principle by hard experience
they are q long way toward a0lvin
the cost-ofliviuR problem TH
dollars saved in months rem
looks as big as any other $50 eve
saw.
A. the end Of alx months ou
lease expired and We were free q
20. but we decided 10 recupsrat
before beginning our model plan.
Constance conceived the bfitlian
idea then that Tor the winter "
should act as earctakera for som
wealthy mans summer home In Ia
near country, and we looked a
several
Ae Care Tsker.
The owner Of one beautiful mar
zion fairly lmplored us 10 0ccup
II for the winter AT the ridlcuiau
rent Of $40 per month As an ad,
ed inducement, be said that al ia
coming Of spring We should NOV
into his splendid city house. for IA
same rent a. carctakeFs, and Nv
IN II during BIZ absence in th
country
But for The fact that the con,
try house was two miles nd,
the car line we certainly sboul
nave taken up this Offe
But that meant walking the dl
lance twice a day through ail Kind
OF weather. and as my WORK oui,