The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-09-16
How We.Bought a T lone on
Nothing-at-All-to-Start- With

| to me last spring, and my reply has
| in several cases borne such fruit,
that feel must tell my little story
to bigger audience.
In every case, my reply was:
why don't you buy?"
And if these people had all been
heard at once, the chorus would
have been, ooh, l can't afford that!"
Mother and l did" l insisted.
But you had money!" they said.
"Oh, MOI" I answered. ooh, no; we
didn't"
And here is the rest of the story:
Perhaps had better say first that
I am a girl in the twenties. There
were only mother and l in the
family and my salary was our only
source of income.
A year ago last spring, just as in
each of the preceding five years,
mother and / got the spring fever.
We had formerly lived in house,
with a garden and flowers, and fiat
dwelling did not appeal to us at all.
We had a cozy apartment in one
of Chicago's very nice neghbor-
hoods, but the rooms were not extra
light. There was a yard-and it
might well be called yard" for
it was little much more than that
much square. II we stepped out on
our back porch we could hear our
neighbors talking on a dozen
porches both sides of us-and they
were not raising their voices either.
Well, as said, mother and / got
the spring fever. Every evening we
would walk over to the lake and
talk over what we honestly believed
to be only dreams of how we could
buy a pretty little bungalow and
have flowers and a garden and
cheerful bright rooms.
But how on earth were we to do
My income was $35 a week. Our
rent was $35 a month-and going
to be raised. I don't remember
what our grocery bills we're; but
food, clothing and rent took all my
salary. So we could not save to
make our dreams come true.'
One day girl friend Of mine told
me that she had borrowed quite a
sum- of money on her salary to pay
her bill at one of the department
stores.
That night I said to Mother, III
she can borrow money for that, why
can't ! borrow for a homer"
xra RnuroA ond r1ornal nnfs1
when my vacation came in June,
mother and ! went house hunting.
In one OF the prettiest suburbs Of
Chicago we picked at random real
estate man and told him we were
looking for a little bungalow-one
that would be home for us, but
that would help also to pay for it.
SELF
He showed us several places. In
fact, we made two or three trips to
this suburb before we found the
right thing. 1t was bungalow, OF
stucco part way up, and the rest
shingled. The lot was small, only
81 by 100 feet, but it was fairly well
developed with five trees, quite
few flowers and some shrubbery. 1t
was on very pretty street and our
particular little bungalow was two
blocks from an IL" station-forty-
five minutes to the Loop.
From the minute we laid eyes on
that little home we wanted 1t! so
the next day l went to the Morris
Bank downtown, and told them the
whole story; just how much salary
I was getting, and that we thought
we could rent part Of the little bum
galow and thus add some more to
our income> and to what we would
be saving in rent.
AS consequence, they loaned me
S4OO. On this we paid per cent
interest, which was taken out OF the
loan when we got it. The agree
ment was that we should pay DacK
IS a week, which would clear up
the debt in one year. u
We paid $500 on the house as
first payment and since then have
been paying $35 month on 1t. This,
added to our weekly payment to the
bank, made about SGT a month the
first year.
when It had been struggle for us
to pay $35 a month rent. The
answer is in the house itself.
There are two bedrooms on the
first floor. One of them Is right
across from the bathroom and has
a private entrance. This private en-
trance also leads upstairs. ] believe
that was the finishing touch which
sold us that house.
The bedroom across from the
bathroom has two windows, large
closet with window in it and a full
length mirror in the door. The view
from both windows is pleasant
one, being in either case q pretty
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