Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-09
A Very Helpful Letter

Dear Cynthia-Tye been reading your
column and saw the letter from Mrs. M.
and felt in view Of my experience. might
be able to help her. 1t seems to me II nus
bands and wives were more ready to be
'palsr and not grumble and blame each
other when things go wrong they would be
lots happier. I've been married fifteen years
next April and havo Ave husky boys and one
dear little girl. My husband and I were
very young wnen we married. against my
peoples wishes. neither OF US was yet
eighteen. At that time my husband was
only a clerk in a grocery store. although ne
had learned bookkeeping. but his mother ana
father died and he simply started to WORK
at the first thing he could get. He was
making only So a week then and / look
back and simply sasp-how did we ever live
but we did. We had no money saved. not
me cent. and boarded for seven weeks and
this took almost all we had. But I helpt d
the Iandlady and got a couple OF dollars a
week for that. We saved a few dollars and
got a tiny three-room fat for 81 month
nd mos5 me S ehsrs things
we RSSsp Rad to @ lave sS on hstaiiments and paid
81 a week My hssbapd one time ,,.E served y ed
dy Or night we 50sh wsat G BED hpnssy %ay
day or two tfl pay day.
But we never complained to any one-i
siiy 10 i've H at. tncs"f mes washed and mended what
we had-we had no money to buy NOR
clothes cloth W the fHG Ts, Winter and no oyereoat and
part of the time drove a wagon IN the cold
bu wa back aRd sseS he Sd
hdent II we kept on trying, % surely God Cd, would ir
rse aT:P BABY eSme w and Tt!' 70 hard bleak world
Out Of my little weekly, money ! squeezed
BABY clothes and went without my lunch
many o time to save the few needed pc pennies;
st nEst my my dear eaPy old % boy eame home white and
cold and hungry and after our little suppeF nJ
H fsoe ash as he told told me me- an Old s%pioys had r:
could and told him surely he'd get some some
paper. ane to se sfef the t edition read the
az fsr apS sss ss%ems' ;eb s eoad nis not
After days Of worry and hunger, too; he he
esps on got aRsssh
NY husband only got 81 d,nDe per ,scsSs, %ssk We We
up All the friends we knew when We we mar; ar;
f'i1 know SS'fD Secretly fsit ashamed but We al
ways promised sGop s sn~S wSud have eopssbe pIssntys
ana wa she'd and we always kept moder-
brought his pay envelope home and we sat
down and figured out what we had to pay
and what was left. We planned to get what
was absolutely necessary shoes or under
book! from Rs SEa19 aSG
read them nights
My husband read UP on his old profession
and gradually got to work at II and steadily
climbed up until now his yearly salary II
a fortune to the old days, He calls m.
for him is boy" although he is over 81,
| feet tall. He never misses a day writint
| to me when he 10 away on business anc
never forgets to bring me music or som,
| little gift when he returns. not expensive
| but It shows he thinks OF me. He never
| leaves the house but he kisses me good bS
| and again when he returns. We never quar-
sit down and thresh II out and II I an
we're good friends again. After the babiel
| came could not go out evenings. unles
once in = great while we had asp special trea
| Now at last. my children are growing u
| and we have a lovely home. am well an,
| my husband has very important position
| which takes him all over the country ant
| we're both much In love with each othe
| as II we were still 'just married." and
say It's all due to the fact we were pals
| ali through life 30 far and never complaine e,
| to any one and took the Rood times an
| the bad ones too. as they came along. bu
| we never gave Up. I've cried to myself man