Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-01-26
DOUBT $3.50 STORY AFTER THE HON0RS
Readers of Star Think Sum
Too Little to Live On.
CALL 1T STARVATION DIET

IHOSe neW1yWeQS, Mary ana RODeTt.
who are set up as models of economic
housekeepers in an article in The Star
last Sunday, which describes how they
manage to bake both ends meet on $50 a
month. his salary. with an expediture of
$3.50 weekly for the table. meet with
scornful skepticism from several expert
enced housewives.
Cant be done, say all of them, and
they charge the honeymooners with in
venting q tale for horse marines ears,
incredible to those practiced in the arts
of the home-a pretense Of accomplishing
the impossible. The expense account of
the thrifty bride is analyzed and torn to
pieces by experts. Cant be So" is the
inevitable conclusion.
"Old Maid" one of the critics, is much
amused and also quite caustic in COM
ment She would vote medal to the
newlyweds for the wonderful way in
which they make things to eat go SO
far. Also she has no good opinion of
q man or woman who submits to the ex-
iStence that the menu Of this tiny house
hold provides.
Appetite Not Healthy.
1.-The husband must have had some
thing the matter with him." says "Old
Maid" His appetite was not healthy.
If he ate all the dishes his wife claims
she prepared for him home was no haven
of rest. For men are like all other
nice. mild, householder pets-they must
be well fed to be agreeable"
"Old Maid thinks the pair of them
should put their own heads in soak in
stead of the calf's head they propose to
so treat.
She warns The Star not to try to edu-
cate all the men in Washington to live on
a starvation diet at the cost of $3.50
weekly. The light lunch the husband
carried to his daily work, "Old Maid
agrees must have been light indeed. Nor
does she like the division &C the income
which gives most of it to the husband
for his education.
Welcome to Her Husband.
This lady is welcome to her husband.
whom she evidently married to raise and
educate" is one of "Old Maids" shots.
1T strikes me if you could advise rat
tle-brained young things to get educated
lions generally. Heaven pity the poor
woman who undertakes to give her hus-
band a professional education on his
National Capital today"
'Old Maid picks to pieces the accounts
Of the young housewife. She rather re-
sents the notion that the inexperienced
young girl should set herself up to teach
a lesson in thrift, economy and cOnServa-
ton to those who are SO much wiser and
older-no, not that; heaven forbid!-but
longer at 1t.
She declares that the things bought for
the table could not be obtained for the
ho ind incanSiGt.
encies in items on the menu that call for
ingredients that the market account does
not show to have been provided. How
things lasted SO is beyond her human
comprehension. The household lore of the
young wife is laughed at as foolish mis-
statement of truth.
"How any one could buy 20 cents worth
Of lamb Saturday. and have 1t at dinner
Sunday, and enough left for dinner Mon
day that is heroic self-denial in the
tanning.
The frequency with which beef in some
form appears on the weeks menu. and no
accounting for it's presence In the iarder,
excites this comment: Seems though
some one must have purchased a quarter
of beef on the first of the month and used
1t as needed"
Instance of Extravaganza.
She detects the bride in extravaganza
in the purchase of a beef heart Il can
get all the beef hearts 1 want for the
asking she declares.
1T is ridiculous from beginning to end.
and highly amusing to any one who was
ever in a market is her summary.
"A subscriber" another critic writing in
The Star on the subject, will not deny the
truth of the newlyweds' housekeeping ex-
penses. but expresses the belief that the
bride buys staples not accounted for out
Of money earned by writing about it for
the newspapers.
M. E. c." is an avowed skeptic. This
critic finds discrepancies between the
weekly menu and the market account
IN. e. c. knows what can be done on
SIC month. providing for two. She has
done that. she declares, and is willing to