El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-04-15
Better Start Married Life With
Too Little Than With Too Much
Bride and Groom Find That Mortgage and Necessity
For Economy Are Means of Steadying Them in Life.
d BEATRICE FAIRFAN.

D the blessings that helped 10 make
3 that partnership a success. there was
you would never guess in thou
] sand years-the mortgage on their
I first home. She says THAT mort
Z gage was the balance wheel that pre-
/ vented our flying OFF at separate tan
Z gents. 1t compelled my husband 10
T foreEo the various eXtravagances TO
which he had a tendency. and II kept
me from becoming victim OF 1ads
The writer was one Of two girls
and her sister had made what was
: REGARDED as a brilliant match, while
my correspondent became the VIE
{ Of a clerk II a big firm She mar
ried the man OF her choice against
{ the wishes OF her parents and they
( contributed nothing in the way OF
nest egg
The young man had $500 and the
bride got a present Of $1,000 from
romantic great-aunt. who was spurred
to this lavishness. apparently, by the
general opposition Of the family
With this $500 the young people
made the first payment on S5UUu
home in the suburbs Of big city
There was a college not Tar away.
and the bride let out the supertluous
rooms to bachelor instructors She'
did most OF her own work TIL ner
first child was born. and after that
she managed with a laundress, IRE
less cooker and a cleaning woman
who came for a couple Of hours daily
Housekeeping Automatic.
It was difficult at first. as she ndu
had very little training in the domes-
tic arts, but after she began 10 use
her brains and systematic things
much Of the housekeeping became au-
tomato
The hardest thing in those first
years Of her marriage was that she
IN Nraam with MuuE
that seemed to her more important
than they really Were-not fads in
clothes and furniture and diet, but
Intellectual fads that appeared to be I
world movements.
Her sister, for instance. belonged
to a coterie Of women that changed
their fads as often as they did their
hats, and 1t gave my friend stranded
feeling at first not TO be able to take
part in these various exotic hobbies !
There was the wonderful Swami, I
for instance-the East Indian in the
highly becoming turban, whom they
got in TO direct their thought and {
teach them how to grow" It i
seemed this cocoa colored gentleman /
could Danish age by keeping one I
serene and Compel all manner Of
blessings and prosperity by directing
the thought Of his circle.
Ny correspondent felt Ike a poor
= Z
the time 10 Join this magic circle 1
But what could a poor girl do with 4
the baby to look after, the dinner to 4
get and the various other household I
chores to claim her attention In the /
meantime her sister and her friends 4
were soaring above such sordid de-
tails into the realms OF truth"
1T seems funny now. but those days /
il came near being q real tragedy.
I wanted TO keep abreast OF things.
and I had TO wash out little flannel
shirts and not forget the fireless
cooker entirely.
NY husband played golf at a
nearby course on Saturday after
Moons. but he could never finish up
at the clubhouse like the rest Of the
men because there was always a good &
deal Of treating, and one can't treat
with a mortgage hanging over ones
head
and IN spite OF everything. the
Swami and his thought and the game
of golf without the convivial climax