White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1921-04-24
PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS
PERTAINING 10 PEOPLE

All predictions OF a spring sluml
In the price of residences and rea
estate have been called off. This re
fers to Ely the same as 1t o Il
New York, Chicago or any otheI
place in the United States. The maj
who owns his home can now res
content that it's not going to decline
in value as rapidly as some predicted
a zeal or so ago. In fact, real estate
men say the price of homes and build
ing lots all over the country is no"
fixed. and any cange will be OF sucI
q local or minor nature as not TO be
noticeable.
With this in view o can go righ'
ahead now and improve your prop
erty as you had planned. knowing
that if you sell 1t at any future tim
you'll be repaid for those improve
ments. If you put down a new Walk
In front OF 1t. no matter what that
walk costs, you have simply added
, that sum TO the value of the house
and 1t is just the same as adding that
much to your bank account. Ii you
have o~utbuildings to erect, go ahead
with them; IL you haven't as much
shade as you'd like. hen get the
trees-good ones-and plant them at
once. Every dollar you spend in i'm
proving your property simply means
that much added value II you cver
want to sell-it e even more,
for improved property will always
bring more than ii cost TO improve IL,
Real estate markets are moi going
to rise and fall like the price OF SUI
gar, coffee or other commodities. It's
going to stay within a few dollars OF
where ii is. The only kind that Will
fall in price is the kind that ISM kept
i'm repair. Remember that, and &C
ahead with the improvements you
should have made a year ago.
We note where the University of
Nebraska has inquired into the place
the farmers wife occupies i'll farm
economy, and it reports hat II she
we're paid ON the same basis as other
people her yearly earnings would
amount to $4,000. First. as a cook
she earns $40 a week. And at that
she has no days off and is expected to
be on the job all the time. She gen
orally is. as every farmers wife in
5000 miles of Ely can testify. Then
she does all the washing and ironing,
and for that she IS allowed 50 per
week.
On an average there are nineteen
days of sickness each year on a farm
and in those trying times the farm
er's wife. if she is not the n who
is sick, has to be nurse. For this the
man who made the figures allows STE
per year, assuming the wage of a
rurse in the country is S25 a week.
She docs the sewing and should be
credited with IS a week for that.
add to all these items the fact that
she does the %scrubbing and cleaning |
rickling and preserving and teacher
for the children, and the mar at the
university says she easily earns
$4,000 a year
And We are right here to agree
that it's not too much and to ask at
the same time. how many of them
ever get it? They bear the bulk of
the burden and they bear it without
erumbling. So our advice to the hus-
band of any n of them is TO remem-
her, next time he is asked for the
Price of a new dress. thai he's get
ting off pretty cheap as il is when he
figures that he has n $4,000 a year
employee who isn't costing him much
more than her board and lodging.
A Colorado man declares he has
the secret of pr%opagating watermel-
ons that will contain a 10 per cent
content of alcohol. He says he can
plug the melon while it's growing
insert a certain chemical. replace the
plug, make il alright with beeswax
and the melon will go on maturing
while the chemical inside ferments
and puts n genuine kick into 1t by
the time il is ripe. We're not adver-
Using the gentleman's claim with any
desire to boost the price of melons in
Ely the coming season. but we want
to show to what extent some people
are going to find something with q
kick in it. Ii needn't worry the
"drys." though, because we suppose
well still be able to buy a kickless
melon. But 1t will mean more work
for the reformers. and especially If
it leads to the whisky cantaloupe"
or the brandy squash"
Boyhood in and around Ely has
broken out of its winter shell and the
time when more energy is spent in
finding last years top and marbles
than Columbus spent in finding Amer
lea is with us. We are glad of it, be-
cause il makes the fellows who cant
be boys again proud of the fact that
they once had the opportunity and
that they made the most of 1t. We
glory in their enthusiasm as they be.
gin practicing up on their curves and
whiting out their kite sticks; as