Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-11-15
The Evening Chit Chat
BY RUTH CAMERON

4 COMPLAINT was registered with me today to which I'm more than
~ glad to give all the publicity can. -
1t is against that class of people who through sheer care1essness,
rather than lack of money, let their bills lie three or four months before
attending to them.
This true story accompanies the complaint:
81 know a music teacher who has the support of a family consisting
OF an invalid sister and two little children. The first Of every month she
makes out her bills and sends her to- tn parents u Ter pupils n
understanding when she took the pupils was that she should do thts-she
did not add that she hoped the bills would be paid promptly for she knew
they were all fully awar that she was the only bread winner or the
family.
eff ONE happened to let the bill run a month or two she could get
along all right, for she earns enough for a comfortable living, but when
/Gs is frequently the case-not Just ne, but all, forget Or neglect to pay
for several weeks or wen a month, it places her n a very trying position.
Just this present month On the tenth of the month not one cent on one
bill had been paid. and had it not been that she had credit at the grocery,
the family would have actually suffered. But even though it did not come
to actual suffering every housekeeper knows the discomfort of not having
a little ready money O hand. There is the washerwoman to pay; the
tables, blu. she ca only send to tie grocery instead Of buying at a saving
Is she ought to, and could if people would only pay her the money n
has worked so hard to earn
And the most trying part of it all is that they might pay promptly if
they only would. The payments come in checks. with hardly IN exception.
think the maid must have burned your other. l left 1t on the maneel, Du Ut
it is gone, or Your bill entirely slipped my mind until today md IL
is nowhere to be found Time is money % this little woman and IL AXES
hours of it to make out bills"
What one of is couldn't tell of some case more Or less like this onef
Myself, I am thinking of a dressmaker who mas her Invalid nuspano
and two children to support. She vas employed IN a Iafg eresSmAlhAnnns
establishment and did such beautiful work that customers of the estab-
lishment persuaded her that she should set up for herself. She soreiy
needed the money and after much deltberation took this step. At nst l
heard she W as doing splendidly. Latter | as much pa1neo o lear ina a
she had been obliged to go back to her former position at a reduced sal
airy. Inquiry revealed the fact that she had failed through no hh OF
ability O n her part, but simpy because her customers mos OF mem irc91
women-were so tardy about paying their bills that with hr limited
cantal she couldn't keep the business N a paying basis.
A good part of the dressmakers profit, you know, comes from buy
ing her customers trimmings etc. at wholesale prices, me cannot o
that unlesss she is able to etle her store bills promptly.
Everyone ought, of course, to be able to pay all his bills at n END
of the month. But even the people who cant do that can at least 70 select
tbe hills they will pav promptly that those who are forced to wait for
as this woman. and a million others like her do.
And as for the people who have plenty OF money to pay tnef pls
always had al idea that Hell was paved with didn't hnk quite a
much a with good intentions. -