The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-04-08
KEEPING HOUSE ON
FIFTEEN DOLLARS A WEEK

The following from the Atlanta
Journal, tho household matters, is
pretty good stuff for men to read:
Every little while some woman
writes letter TO the newspaper tell
ing how comfortable she and her
husband and maybe two or three
children can get along on salary of
SIS a week-or less writes a wo-
man reader of this department.
Now | am always willing to learn
OF new and economical ways of do
ing things, and if they are better
than my experience has taught me,
| adopt them. But these letters do
a lot of harm in one way: Our hus-
extravaganza.
We'll, l can just say this: That
most of these husbands who think
their wives could do better, wouldn't
live the way those people live who
can have enough and be happy on
SIS a week.
Il have a family of four They
are all hearty eaters My husband
wants meat three times a day, and
he doesn't want it in disguised form,
such as croquettes, beef loaf, or any
thing of that sort. 1t costs me SO
a week to supply my table and keep
my family's stomachs satisfied. This
means that | save in every way, al
ways buy for cash and weigh every
thing that comes into the house. l
watch the different stores for bar
gains and even lug home things
| from the market which are really
| too heavy to carry to save few
cents.
I'VE have fresh fruits and fresh
vegeta bles, but | buy only what is in
season. Also, i can a great deal
| during the summer. | do all my
own baking and housework. | buy
few clothes ready made, but do as
much sewing for myself as l can find
time to do. We don't have many
doctor bills, as | watch the health of
my family so carefully that they
don't often get sick. l haven't been
inside a theater since / don't know
when. Once a week the two children
go to the movies My husband
must look we'll to keep his position
but l am always a little behind the
fashions, because l must dress the
children we'll enough so they won't
be sighted at school, and, you know
mother comes last in all the family
reckonings.
''We'live in a very modest neigh
$40 per month, and furnish our owr
heat.
Now, will you tell me where
can save and still live decently?"
No: l don't see where she coult
save and live ''decently.'
Nowadays money is required i
one must live at all-unless one i
willing to belong to the only leisur
class in America and be hobo.
> l have heard complaints from
other women whose husbands tool
pains to scan newspapers and maya
zine articles by cooking experts,
household efficiency experts" an
letters by women who claim to b
doing marvels on almost nothing
Almost every man will grasp sue
printed matter as absolutely authen
= tic and use it as an argument 70
money economy in his household.
Men are great on economy-in tn
household. They never can see VIII
a housewife needs to spend money
She ought 10 be able to supply plent
OF palatable food and all the com
forts by some mysterious process
which a man needn't attempt to III
- derStand-just as a new mother ha
always been supposed to know no
TO treat her first baby, though sh
knows absolutely nothing about tn
care OF babies.
There are many people who, ala
must live somehow OF less than 81
a week-and that not a certain il
= come. They do the best they can an
try TO be happy. But I want to te
you the best way to cure the averag
modern husband of the absolute b,
= and happily on SIS week or less
TO adopt that manner Of living for
/ time He will soon howl for