Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-05


omy in living, etc, but the
great majority don't know
now to go about it to lay something
aside for q rainy day, of which good
ness knows we have had enough of
them on Longs Island this summer,
but anyway ] run acrost q married
couple or man and wife the other day
that has got children all under so
yrs. of age and the man showed me
| where he had solved the high cost
problem and was saveing enough
every wk. so as in few yrs. he can
quit work and not half to worry. as
they will be enough in the bank to
insure he and his family VS.. want in
their old age.
This man is a plasterer by trade
and only makeing $3.50 per wk., as
the union don't allow him to work
Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, Sun
days and holidays and only a " day
Saturday am. Well. one night this
| man and the old lady, as he called his
wife. set down and had a serious talk
and begin to figure things out and
| found they was only laying $3.50 per
| wk. to 1 side and spending all the
rest OF 1t: In few yrs. at that rate
| they would be liveing on the bounty
| Of the county.
So this bird said to the wife. 1--WE
have got to economize somewheres
or ruin Is staring US in the face, as
all I can scrimP. up in my profession
is $3.50 per wk: and we amt saveing
| only $3.50 Of 1t. and while we are
living in the lapse of luxury. why
| suppose something should happen to
me so as I couldn't plaster no more,
where would you and the Riddles be
at? So propose that we start and run
the house on the budget system"
So the Mrs who hadn't never seen
the fnsides Of a college asked him
! what was the budget system.
We'll" he says, 'the word budget
comes from Lithuanian words budg
and ct and it means I will give you
SO per wk. to buy the food and
clothes and pay the rent and wash
ing and servants and etc, and I will
take the other $40 and stick it in the
old saveings bank every wk. and in
q few yrs. we can give the world the
laugh even il can't plaster or get
plastered no more"
So his Mrs. was tickled to death and
said let us try it beginning next wk.
Well she set down with a paper and
pencil and figured out that they had
been throwing away pretty near $500
Der wk. on luxurys that wasn't get
the children too heavy and they was
all eating too much rich food and she
read in the paper Somewheres that 1t
was q great saveing OF brains and
time and money II the mouse Wl1e
would make out her bill Of fare for
the wk. on say, a Sunday night SO
every Sunday night she would stay
home and make out her menu card
for the incomeing .wk.. and after a
couple wks. practice not only was
she running tho house on the $1,000
budget but she was laying 81 a wk.
q side for q rainy day to buy a UNI
brella. Following is typical ex-
penses acct. that she made out for a
| wk.
Food: Monday breakfast - An
| chovies, ripe olives. celery. clam
| broth, swordhsh, ham and eggs, liver
! and bacon, lettuce and tomatoes with
Coney Island dressing, honey dew a
la mode coffee and cigars. cognac.
! Monday luncheon-Rum cocktail.
| terrapin, Rhode Island reds. port.
spinach and onions. toothpaste. coffee
and cigars, Russian kummel Monday
dfnner-Caviar. martins. marconis,
| lobster. guinea hen, OBrien's pota-
toes, SCOT pudding. coffee and cigars.
creme de menthe. Total expense.
$1.25.
On Tuesdays and Wednesdays and
Thursdays they was all too sick to
Friday Observation-Disclosures, weak