Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-24

arrested in Berlin for shoplifting.
They said they couldn't pay the
grocers' bills and rather than to
tell their husbands that they were
running behind they had stolen
things in shops and were trying to
sell them to get the money to
make up the deficit In the bills.
A Kansas City woman went into
the divorce court and told the
p Judge that she wanted to go to her
mother.
MY husband wants good things
to eat" said the Kansas City
woman, but he doesn't want to
pay the price for them. I econo-
mize all l can, but the bills creep
higher and higher and I am al
most crazy trying to think what to
do when the first Of the month
comes. I can't stand It any more;
I simply can't stand it.
The Husband Grinned.
"I want to go home and give the
whole thing up, but want to take
my little girl with me. Can't I
do It, Judge, without people say
ing am a bad woman %
And the woman's husband stood
in the court room and grinned
sheepishly when she told the court
that he wouldn't eat hash and
hated stews and wouldn't hear Of
fish balls for breakfast.
STEAKS and chops and eggs and
hot bread he wants." sobbed the
poor little woman, land then when
he has to pay for them he blames
me-"
She was so little and so young
and so frightened and yet so des-
perateIy in earnest that by the
time she was through with her
foolish little story the husband
was the only one who had the
heart to smile.
The Judge took the matter under
advisement. 1 hope he'll advise
the little woman to go home and
stay awhile and let husband hire
someone TO cook his steaks and
chops and eggs for him-and
worry over the bills, too. 1 think
he'll begin to see the light before
very long.
It isn't all a Joke, this high cost
Of living. It's a serious thing in
some homes and it is a tragedy in
many.
Men and women quarrel and
turn love into hate, respect into
contempt, peace into misery all
over the grocery bills.
They Dine Comfortably.
Children are left homeless, and
old people wander in and out OF
almshouses all because of the few
extra cents on the price Of a
pound of meat; and everyone
seems to think Of every kind Of
remedy on earth except going
without the things that make so
much misery.
What did you have for dinner
a week ago tonight? Day before
yesterday, was 1t steak or chop
or. let's see, a roast? You can't
think for the life Of you, and yet
that very dinner may have cost
the woman who is trying to make
YOU happy and comfortable a
whole heart full of anxious tears.
Why must we all have such ex-
pensive things to eat?
have some friends in New
England, and every time go to
visit them I come home ten
pounds lighter, ten years younger
and happier than have been for
years.
Those friends eat to live; they
do not live to eat. They have
enough to satisfy hunger-and
that's ell.
One chop, a couple of leaves Of
lettuce, a tomato, a few berries
and we have dined-and dined
comfortably and prettily, too-and
ten minutes after dinner we've all
forgotten all about 1t.
They are strong, healthy, hap.
py people, and they would laugh
at the idea of putting their very
hearts and souls and dispositions
and every dollar they have in the
world into the dinner pot. Won
der why some of the rest of US
can't do the way they do?
Enough to eat, good wholesome
food-those aren't the things that
count up on the bills. It's the ex-
tras-the pie, the cake. the pre-
serves, the olives, the celery, the
artichokes, the endives, the as
paragus out of season-that's what
brings that bill up to desperation
point
If I had a husband who drove