Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1918-02-09

such should be no more willing or DESTROYS
to part from it than to dispose of one of the
children for even fabulous price. Sell the
home that has been yours for many years
and you will never be able to get another
like it,
You should never buy home for
speculation, but for permanancy. For
your respective children to grow to matur-
lty IN and then 60 out for themselves and
thereafter periodically visit father and mo-
Their at the cold home makes home almost
heaven on earth Get home and keep
it.
May perhaps this tete-tete on homes is far
fetched but it means to bring forcibly to
the minds of you men drawing good wages
every week and wrecklessly spending them,
that you are making the mistake of your
life in not putting the most of those wages
into home
In urging it's readers, who are getting
big weekly wage to purchase either houses
and or vacant lots, on which to live instead
Of paying rent, Cayton's Weekly is not do
ing so in the interest of real estate Dealers
but in the interest Of you and each of you.
Rents in Seattle are going to continue to
rise and this rent rise will affect every Sec
ton of the city. The building of new
homes will by no means keep pace with the
demand for homes. The demand for cot
tages at present is unprecedented and yet
we venture the guess that there will not
be built for speculation or rent one thousand
cottages in Seattle during 1913 and simply
because the mechanics are not to be had
to do the work. We suggest to you that you
forget your pride and go to the suburbs
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erect a tent house for temporary USE
81 can buy vegetables cheaper than can
raise them, is often heard in reply to:
''Why not raise garden truck in your back
yard.' The statement is absolutely false
and the only excuse for it is that the per-
son does not raise enough on his back yard
to Justify the outlay of time he or she has
to put on it, and the reason for that is the
ground is not properly prepared and fertil-
lied and the planting and growing are not
Systematically done. A plot of ground
4Ox5O feet in the course of the growing
season in Seattle can be made to produce at
least 500 worth of vegetables and if those
vegetables are canned for the winter they
will be worth twice that amount; and any
man can do the necessary work to produce
that amount and not lose a single minute
from his regular employment and the wife
can do the canning and the actual cost for
this would not exceed $40 if that
Speaking about raising what your family
needs on the plot of ground where you live
and yet not lose any time from your daily
avocation, reminds us that Andrew R. Black,
one Of the prominent as we'll as prosperous
attorneys of Seattle, raised vegetables, fruit
and potatoes enough last year to last his
family two winters and the outlay for the
same was very small and as he did, so can
you, for he did the work in his garden after
and before office hours. Who desires to live
independent must work to that end. It's
utterly impossible to make your daily wage
supply all Of your family needs and every
time you lop off dollar by gathering it
from your garden you come that much
nearer living an independent life We know
man who earns 800 per month, but lives
in an apartment and has to buy everything
his family uses and yet he wonders why he
does not get ahead which is plain to be