Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-12-27


sc n woman say that she
NV and her husband never
have any words" said
Dulcie firmly, Il know
it's one Of two things: Either she
living or she doesn't know when she :
stepped on.
Rosemary Merton and | laughed.
Dulcie is always so firm about every
thing like that.
WHY. take the money question:
alone -" Dulcie went on. DO you
think for an instant it's possible for
n man and woman to agree on the
way every penny of a hundred and
I've dollars month is spent? Why.
when I've been walking from Dennis
NAV up TO Walkers to get melons
three for a quarter instead OF
straight ten apiece. and have put i'm
itation filet. that my soul simply re
volts at on blouse in order to save
SOC, and then to have Roger Lane
come walking in with a book he's
bought, Why, any woman on earth
would ask him what the town has a
public library for"
| didn't say much. but l couldn t
help feeling a little superior as l
laughed Will and l had the whole
money question so perfectly arranged.
our budget box worked perfectly; so
much to save each month, so much
for doctor and dentiSts-which we
hadn't even tOuChed-So much for
clothes Injuries and So on. Really.
| couldn't see why people had 50
much trouble planning ont their
money 1t seemed tonne that all any
couple needed was a little common
senSe.
OF course. that isn't Sa wing that
orr budget was as large as We'd like.
u worked like Il welI-oiled machine.
hut Will used To worry lot because
lie never got a raise. This was on
account of his working for his father
OF course.
When you're working In the bank
the way Roger Lane is or. in fact.
anywhere outside your own family,
ii is taken for granted that YOU get
:; five dollar-a- month raise every
year, or at least a bigger salary
some time. whether YOU need ii or
not. But when you're working for
your own father, all is different. He
figures that the whole business will
lie yours some time and, so long as
your rent isn't raised or YOU don't
have sickness or anything. a hundred
dollars month is just as much this
wear as IL was last.
Will didn't like to come right out
and ask for more salary. on account
of Father Horton having given us our
flivVer. SO we just kept along on the
hundred. saving the per cent the
budget book said you ought to save.
and getting along all right but feel
ing as any young couple would feel
when some people who had started
work at the same time were getting
five or ten a month more 1t might
have gone along like that for wears
and years. if it hadn't been for Mr.
Van SAINTS moving out to Cali
fornia.
Mr.. Van SAINT had taken great
fancy To Will ever since Will worked
his head off on the hospital drive. and
so, when he was getting ready to
move, he said he wanted Will to take
charge of the Van SAINT Building, and
the drug store block and the bunga-
lows he owns out on Grand street,
collecting the rents. seeing about re-
pairs and so on. This business would
naturally go to the Horton Real Es-
tate Co., but Mr.. Van SAINT told Father
Horton he'd like to have Will have
it for himself. and Father said well.
he guessed Will had earned it and,
all right. he could handle it on the
side.
| was pleased. thinking that we'd
be getting a hundred and five month
too, and could go into the city once in
p while to the theater, which we really
couldn't afford on our budget and
only went when Father or Father
Horton would take us. But | knew
something was up when Will came
home for dinner the day Mr.. Van
SAINT left. Will always shows every