Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1921-09-23


and Caused by word Of three LET
,ors-tbough d certain often quoted
aral OF Civil war fame pre-
ssrred 10 spell II with four--its con
.oouences could not be enumerated
s,ere all the letters of the alphabe
n,lized id every possible combination
But to quote just two.
Iohn Smith. who. with the help Of
friendly pull, had climbed into q
snug little S75 berth In that fairy.
land called FINLAND soon after his dis
charge from the service, found Him
Golf gently but none the less firmly
ticked out with the cushion OF an
,xtra weeks pay to ease the jolt. De
.ding that sixty a week might have 10
do while the depression lasted. John
ended by accepting forty-and being
nightly glad 10 gel II.
Mary Brown was the other victim
il IN whom We are interested. Mary
found herself unceremoniously showed
"a on the $50 rung OF the salary ladder
IA and with difficulty caught on to the
one numbered %. But Mary was a
gunny-souled person with liking for
81 budgets. She set aside little sums for
81 this and for that and kept track or
them after her own fashion.
III So If did not take weeks of trying
X bn Marys part to make $25 do the
! york of $33-in vain. She moved at
Il oDce to a cheaper neighborhOOd and
81 cheaper room. Mary could no more
I resist making a home of any place
81 where she happened to hang her hat
81 than q bird can withstand building a
& nest In the spring. So it was light
VI housekeeping" room, of course, and II
81 cost Mary a sum which her budget
81 instinct told her was out of all pro-
e portion to her income, but If one must
| have home in these days Of prof
81 Iteering pirates, why one must pay the
Isl price 49,. - ~ ''.:.-.
81 John Smith, on the other hand. came
& down by stages. Being by inclination
al q stranger to personal accounts and
@ by nature an optimist. he gave up his
5.s two rooms at S75 month for one AT
~ $50 and considered his reorganization
on a smaller capital completed. OF |
course John had it TO do over again; |
and finding himself one Thursday with |
H @cent piece to last till Saturday /
Bel convinced him of that. SO it hap
q pened that he took the six-dOllar nom
s housekeeping room next to Marys
81 ZONE three weeks after she had moved
In.
e They had been busy three weeks
for Mary. For after business hours
3 che had arranged and rearranged her
few lares and penates, made over her
curtains TO fit the windows and de-
hgned and carried out various ramou-
fages which transformed her own
room into four with imaginary chalk
marks in liee of walls.
Mary arose promptly every morning
at six. prepared herself a dainty
breakfast, a neatly wrapped-in-the-
wallpaper lunch for the midday re- {
past and set her homeiin order for the :
Gay. AT night she FASTENED back car
Tying bags of various sizes. From
their contents she cohcocted meals
which no huudred-a5Week chef could |
improve upon were he given the same
materials to work with. If Mary '
sometimes wished that she might ex- Il
pertinent with twice the quantity of Il
iOodsruffs and, perhaps, receive a COM b
phnent, verbal or otherwise, upon her q
culinary skill from someone who a
nisht Just naturally belong on the
Vpposlte side of the little table-well. q
:, WOULD only go to show that she was +
uie very human, normal sort of girl b
sne looked to be.
as Tor John Smith, he ate in restau- Ii
anus twenty per week. John had de- h
ueu' would cover meals, but it didn't @
.u' at That, he was indifferently well
~ mere was door between Mary's Il
'OOin and Johns. a typical. between Il
'eeuped-rooms rooming house door, N
,V.Aeu on both sides and all the crew
nv, stuf1ed with denim or something. W
'mateVer 1t was, Is did not keep out st
.iouS odors of boiling coffee and OF
s.o'nng chops. To John these aromas
seeined a sort of intangible. and in the W
nu disappointing. cocktail. creating ell
~ appetite which restaurant meals II
could not satisfy.
VI course John and Mary met oc-
,a as they passed in and out.
No. VI course, they took a healthy m
,a In each other, for they were III
,os4 I'd like that girl; she's the dir
.o. good pals are made of" John tb
0,1 to his pipe. He allowed him ne
ma 10 uream bit before his sober
o-s uent made an answer. ION forty or
lou poor nut !" -,
ai "en came day when il raned. bu
sseu' rained. John came home
I r,ner wet, and after changing de- SIC
,'su mat he would not go out again Of
suen downpour. even if he INV
na eu' so he sat down with maya hu
,oos thinking, perhaps, TO substitute sit
, ~ Tor thought" for the more mate mo
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