The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-02-20
ETERNAL QUERY
OF LIVING COST
What Income Should Man
Have Before Getting
Married?
lECT URER SAYS ST
Rut Cost of Two Depends on
Thoroughness of Cooper
alton and Sympathy

adams wife" 50 the story told
,,udcvluc audiences here in
r,ls, "a week or SO ago ran. was
.,o most Inexpensive wife IN his
.,ry She cost him just one hone
Z, Is 20 hc hoped that the fact
mat Eve stands alone in her class
inns financially made, and that
.urtnat.ng prices that make sub
..ri.rt Ewes expensive or iuexpen-
.Iys asscts-as though that didn't
-.iua.s depend upon the Evcs--will
s,f enhance the reputation already
..aJo bv the sex feminine for vari-
,bIrno4e When any Adam takes
mon himself an Eve. 10 surely
moan. anything but lesscning of
..apor- -ihlities or tightening Of the
.r5ig upon the pockctbook. but
,1,re must be something I'm this
,IuespUu. can two persons live as
nearIr ~ one. for II Is still debat-
"A Better say, two persons may
.,e 20. rheaply as one does But
.r iN, face Of the fact that the
prr,s of staple foods are dropping.
without "a relative drop thus far I'm
thc cost of food in restaurants,
would seem 10 indicate that the
bachelor would be able TO find not
orly in the matrimonial state a
homo efficiency flat, apartment.
bungalow or man-sizcd huuse-hut
, COS, of living which. shared with
.hc keeper of that home, is virtual
, the same as IL was before he em-
UarAcd upon matrimonial seas.
This uf course. entirely aside from
.hc cost Of clothing there ara more
reasons than biological why a man
nigh, not spend as much on his at
urc after az before.
Making and Spending.
Aucr all. IT isn't what a man viii
make hut what ne and his wife will
spend. that decides the amount that
q man should be earning before he
marries. Ask the average girl what
,he believes man should bo earn
ing before he can get married and
she is very likely to make the week
y stipend a generous onC--that is
generous for II young man starting
lie Ask a young man. and hcm
make II just as generous, perhaps
more so, for he has "a vague idea
NJ what girls clothes cost. and he
has A very definite idea as to what
rents are and food downtown costs.
Older men and older women put
The amount at much less, some Of
hem fin 1t at hundred or hun
frcd and a quarter month. That,
~ course. doesn't mean the average
scale Of living OF the average young
married couple today Dr. VII
liam Mckeevcr, when he lecturcd
here three weeks ago, said that il
q young man had dollar. that's
enough to get married on--smiling-
v Ot course. but he did advocate
small beginnings
But a real girl. II she's hit
,quarcly by those fatal arrows Of
Tho little pink god, will bc willing
10 marry the man she loves even n
ne lS earning comparatively small
salary and make it, II II Is humanity
possible, stretch to take care Of two
whore IL had paid the expenses OF
out one before.
Which brings us back TO the orig
NAL question, can two live as cheap
.y as oue2
i'm these days of toboganning food
prices 10 would seem that they can.
Failing Prices Help.
Drop into almost any grocery
store, enquire casually as to the
relative price Of this or that stapcl
now and three months ago. and
almost invariably the answer will
no. or rs just question of
now much off Prunes. now. for in
stance, crstwhile plcbiuns whose
'ovIy past have been retrieved
somewhat by asccndancy recently
m the social scale, are 90 per cent