The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-02-14

Last April workingman's family in
n factory town OF New England went To
pieces through drink and debt. That
wurkingman was receiving i've dollars
q day. His wife worked out h plan TO
save the family Or sunday morning
she held conference" with her hus-
hand and three children. aged ten 10
fifteen: The statement was like ms:
AS head Of this family for sixteen
wears you have made flat failure; inc
rcnt is unpaid: VIZ have no money Tor
the children: at forty years Of age you
are at your top earning power At sixty
there is nothing ahead but the poor
house. You keep back s. every week
for YOUR beer and tobacco. Unless you
give up as head Of the family. | nave
decided to leave you. But II you Will
stcp down | will try what can do.
When the husband turned angry ana
sullcn the wife answered. Very we'll
shall pack up this afternoon ana 20
hack 10 my fathers farm" Before dark
the husband capitulatcd and gave the
lines into the wifc's hands.
How She Saved the Family.
Then the wife outlined hcr pans
Tomorrow morning shall buy Il
house and two acres Of ground 1or
$4,000 out on the edge Of the town
go Al
principal, and TO this ! shall add Sl-
- month saved from your beer and to-
bncro." The man answered. IT must
have a little tobacco for my ptTr, an"
the wife replied. You haven't any
nine; | smashed il with Il iIntirnn. inc
nryt morning one of tho factory teams
nlourhcd the new garden. breakfast
vas at $40, and at the husband WIG
and children were in the garden untl'
the factory opened at 40. SIX oclock
Tint night brought two hours further
work.
May and June were busy months 10
The husband already benefited by irrSh
mir and the relief from his machine. tic
Lrcamc interested in tho raLishes. let
,urc onions. bcets tomatoes and pota-
toes. On Saturday morning in Jul! inc
woman and son Of fifteen sold one nun
drcd large lunches OF radiShcs lor I'VE
rcnts Il bunch and. including the sales
Of lettuce, carried nome Slp. Dur'hI
September their onions. Tomatoes anu
noiatocs paid one hundred and nifty dol
lars on the house. In exchange loi
fresh vegetables tho woman rrcclFeu u
credit at the grocery si0r" Tor cahnc,
corn beans, coffee. tea ana sugar. th"'
carried them over the winter In Ma?
her farmer brother sent nor IL cr"lf
four chickens. She only obtained Two
thirds of what her brother Thought she
should have had. nevertheless. when
her husband turned butcher on the las
Saturday afternoon Of December, their
meat brought them in $500 moro.
Meanwhile the woman one Snnaa!
announced that the entire fhmilE WAS
going TO church and Bible school
Soon the little girls. who were very
prctty, and the boy formed new tricho-
shins. In september the boy went mo
an Office. In December h" had ms
chance. The presidents auto broke
down: he walked into his office all
smashed with mud: tn" boy brought III
a brush and cleaned tho fifth from his
cmplorcr's clothes. What. IL boy look
ing for work. The president was sur
nrjscd. lie became Interested. raised
he boys wages. put him in n new dc-
partment and the boy made good.
Meanwhile The husband induced An cx-
/ rcrt machiuist. earning Sc O day. TO
show him how. and January ! tn" hus-
hand came home to surprise his wife.
For eight months he has not spent a
cent IN drink or tobacco, and next fall