The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-04
Welded Life
Income Need
Is Flexible
BY MARTHA LEE

| According TO theory, IN JnlS DAY
and age, the minimum wage of the
young n-about-to-marry should
| be $50 a week, with tidy sum laid
away in the bank for the proverbiaI
rainy day.
Economists have figured that
one-fourth of the months income
may be spent for rent, and the rest
budgeted for necessities including
light and heat, water and food, re-
creation and amusement, clothing,
and savings also are budgeted to the
nth degree, with the intention of
sticking within these limits, slim
though they may be.
So much for the economists view
point. Economists, as a rule, are
practical and level headed, with
emotions held we'll in check. They
don't understand, or else have for
gotten, that $50 is a very good
salary for a young man and that
few young men who held that same
economic viewpoint, would dare
marry.
Many Live on Less
A great deal depends on the
standard of living There are hun
dreds of thousands living on as&it-
tie as $40 week, and getting along.
There are hundreds of thousands
living well on $50 or $35 a week.
There are couples living regally on
! $40 and $50 week and there are
couples who, with $50 a week, barely
can make both ends meet.
If one can be content with living
in tiny apartment, not in the best
residential districts, learning to de-
pend on their own initiative for en-
tertainment and making their
clothes last much longer, one might
start figuring, taking out one
fourth of the months salary for
rent and budgeting the remainder
into the classes mentioned and any
others deemed advisable, and see
how far Charles" salary might go,
stretched to the limit.
Upkeep' Is Heavy Cost
OF course, the more that can be
saved, the better for the young man
and his bride. AS they say about
automobiles and such, TT isn't the
original cost, but the upkeep." So
it is with marriage.
It's the little unexpected things
that turn up that cause trouble, so
the larger the nest egg, the safer
the bet, for marriage is a gamble
any way.
Dear Martha Lee-I am a young girl
though old enough to know I have found
my one and only Prince Charming. hold
q good position and enjoy my work,
though / am considering marriage. If I
marry, I want to discontinue my work,
believing the place for q wife is in the
home, If at all possible.
My friends and do not desire anything
fine. but do want enough to start, per-
haps, to buy little home that we can
call our own and have the other little
things that make for comfort and hap
piness.
Have Saved Several Years
We have been waiting and saving for
several years now and are finding it more
difficult every day to wait. We know it
costs a great deal to buy and furnish
home, and to live after you have home.
What we want to know is: how much
ready cash do you think young couple
ought to have to make start in the
WAITING.
You are the only ones who can
name the amount of ready cash you
should have before you marry.
You are very much in love. Would
you be satisfied to marry your
sweetheart, with the understanding
that you would not be able to afford
luxuries, perhaps only the barest
necessities? Will you be content
with a few clothes, little entertain
ment, and the knowledge that you
will have to count every penny?
You will want to keep yourself
looking as we'll as girls with whom
your husband is associated in bust
ness, and he must look we'll
groomed if he has any intention Of
getting ahead.
Must Avoid Humdrum
Is your love big enough to sur
mount all these difficulties, or will
you become disconnected and fret
full and lapse in to the awful, hum
drum existence of man and wife
who have ceased to consider each
others welfare the dearest thing in
the world? Will you become just
another couple who started mar
rage with everything to live for,
but who lost their ideals somewhere
along the stormy way?
If you feel that you have waited
long enough and that you might
lose each other by waiting until you
can afford to marry, go ahead and
take the chance. You don't need to
start life in a palace, and with a
Rollys Royce.
If you are the right sort you will
work shoulder to shoulder with your
husband and help him win out.