El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-08-24

WHY is it that everyone else's
w problems seen easier Of solution
than our own Is It that we get
better perspective on them, or be-
cause we know none Of the people in
volved and our Judgment is not
warped by affection, prejudice or
other emotions2
Before me is a letter from a woman
who has evidently done her best in
regard to an impossible domestic sit
uztiou. She and her husband are
growing apart her most unselfish ef-
forts are disregarded, and while her
husband is making excellent wages.
she IS unable to save a cent or buy
the necessary clothes for herself or
her children
sim, none OF the people concerned
see that the one solution OF their dir
ffcultfes lies in breaking up the home
as il now eXists-that two households
instead Of one would save what once
was a happy marriage and develop IN
the others a sense OF responsibility
in which they seem now wholly lack
Nv correspondent says; 7 have
been married nine years, and have
four children The oldest is eight,
the youngest a baby OF five months.
Nv husbands father and two younger
brothers-both under draft age-have
been living with US since they landed
IN this country nearly two years ago.
Making the Best Of Things
"AW Of them have excellent Jobs
and are making the best OF wages.
When they first came they stopped
with US as guests for three months;
then as they we're all working the
three paid me SIS a month for room,
board and washing You can readily
see at the present cost OF provisions.
that I zen behind trying 70 room and
board three men at a little under 81
a month a piece
still they always complained that
they we're paying too much, and the
trouble was that was a bad mana
ger. They suggested that I buy food
Of a poorer quality and get Il al
wholesale rates. So TO keep peace,
7 changed our way Of living and
bought everything wholesale, but this
did not please them any better than
the first way And they thought up
another scheme
Z was 10 put down IN writing
everything I bought for the day and
they would pay a share OF It, when
they ate their meals at home This
did not satisfy them either. Miss Fair
fax. because you see they were used
70 prices OF food in their own country
and could not understand the high
cost Of everything over here So they
had still another way but was full
to the neck by that time with
schemes
They are now paying me S45 for
the three meals a day and two rooms
and am going back, back, back all
the time NY husband makes good
wages, but am unable 10 save any
thing al all OF get any clothes for
myself or my children And my hus-
band has began TO side with them
against me that an poor manager,
though he never thought so before
they came
Thev Have Good Bank Account
In the meantime they-my hus-
bands father and brothers-have all
zor good bank accounts and add TO
them regularly every week, besides
sending money TO the family, still IN
the old country. I an so tired with
doing all the work, bookkeeping, ca
tering. and trying TO keep, what was
once q happy home going, that hope
YOU wiz, at least, give ne little
sympathy.
"a Constant Reader"
You certainly have my sympathy.
sort has my sympathy And I must
say when everyone Is profiting by
the arrangement, but you and your
husband, what is the use in going
or with II, particularly as no one Is
satisfied.
Forty-five dollars a month as the
lump sum for the board and lodging
Of three men makes Just SIS apiece,
and very frankly don't see how you
can plan three meals a day and IN
cIude their share Of the house rent
too. on such a figure
Father Not Old and Dependent.
II the father were old and depend
ent on you, 7 shouldn't have a word 70
say. as sons and daughters ought
never TO let old fathers and mothers
suffer. There comes a time when
their own children have TO consider
such questions. and they have a way
Of remembering. these young people,
the treatment that was handed out to
their own grandparents, and either
consciously, OF unconsciously, Il az
fects their attitude to their parents