The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-11-30

Imagine, if you can, the palace in
Watertown that can be rented for So
a month. Usually houses of this sort
are buildings which are owned by
some old estate or are located in
neighborhood so close to a railroad
that the children's playground is the
tracks where their diversion is dis
putting the eminent right of domain
with passing train, and after the
wife's washing has hung on the line
for ten minutes it has the appearance
of black and white poka-dot cloth,
with the white" of saffron hue.
No doubt many readers of the
Leader have noticed in the various
banks of Watertown how the sides of
the vaults, where the money is stored,
bulge out. The answer? Thirty dol
lar a month incomes Cutting these in
situations with savings deposits. OF
course, bank officials will not discuss
their patrons business in DETAIL but
the inference is obvious il the reader
will glance again at the family ex-
pense table above.
Item No. is insurance. These $50
incomes always place the insurance
man high on their list of household
necessities. Granting, however, that
$12 per annum is invested in this way,
it is most apt to be industrial"
which gives the father a policy on
which 15 cents week is paid, and the
mother policy on which 10 cents
week is paid, and should death occur
within three months the fathers pol
icy would pay, possibly, SIS, and add
the $6 he has on deposit in the savings
bank, $31 is on hand to pay funeral
expenses erect a tombstone and leave
a handsome amount for the widow to
buy more wash tubs to maintain the
regal spendor of the home.
Amusements to the extent of SO
cents is noted This provides for five
trips to the movies, and in the opinion
of the wise contributors on this sub
ject of living cheaply. should either
the man or the woman even express a
desire to see a circus beyond the pa
rade. or enter the Turner Opera house,
they should be taken out before sun
rise and be shot for treason.
The Church is not forgotten. The
fact that the biblical admonition is to
give one-tenth to the Lord does not
in the least disturbe these living
cheaply fends, so with one fell swoop
they cut the percentage down to one
thirtieth. Inasmuch as ministers are
such small percentage of the total
population it might be argued by some
that little discrepancy of 10 per cent.
would not be noticed by the layman,
and if it was, the thought could be ap-
piled by all, for millionaire ministers
whizzing bout the streets in electric
coupes are becoming entirely to num-
erous, anyway.
Clothing is merely passing fad;
that is, clothes that fit or keep their
shape. Pa can get a suit once year,
ma can get Sunday" dress once in
two years, and the balance of the $24
can be sQuandered on underclothes,
lingerie, overcoats, working gloves
and shoes.
Oliis TIC UulClcT Call give you du
adequate idea of the pot roasts, por-
terhouse steaks and other choice cuts
to be had for 81 a month. If the
reader really wants information on
this subject ask Mr.. Butcherman.
The grocer, by the way must not be
omitted from the list OF those inter-
viewed. for he comes in for the only
real item of money to be spent-$1O.
Should you ask the grocer the ques-
ton, however, he might suggest that
he thought you wanted to live-not
merely exist.
The doctor, it appears is a neces-
sary evil in the $50 a month mans
home, but of course he knows his pa
tents income and has studied the
above table so often he has it COM
mitted to memory and knows the limit
these social advisors will permit him
to charge. But by the same taken he
should charge the $50 man 81, and the
president of the United States should
pay $2,500-the doctors ability counts
for nothing, anyway; it is merely a
matter of the patients income, accord