The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-07-24
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
CBeu syndicate-wNU Service,
ME fact that thousands o

ME TACT LQaL thousands OF
American women were
= dragging their households
along IN continual state of
debt and Reorganization was
one of the supporting causes of
the long depression.
Now, with the conditions made
by another great war upon US;
supplies costing more than they
did, money worth less, it might
be well for every woman to get
her house in order. To shorten
sail and batten down the matches
before the storm.
If you are in debt, get out of it.
Begin tomorrow to pay off long
standing bills by small degrees; two
dollars on this one, three on that.
Make a cheerful list of everything
you owe, and show it to the children
when they demand dimes and quar-
tiers for movies and cones. Wear
II S1O"4y OO"As 214o WILLIE JOO a. Z
wearing it down cut out every pos
sible needless expense. Even If it
means following the experience of a
friend of mine years ago. Living
In quiet, respectable New York
street he was once forced to hunt
IN desperate pain and emergency
for a doctor. The family baby had
poked a firm little finger into Dad
dy's eye, and Daddy was mad with
pain and apprehension.
Reducing the Overhead.
The big eye specialist across the
street was Eat the clinic" the but
Ter announced. So Daddy dashed
three blocks to the clinic, waited Is
minutes, had his free treatment,
paid five cents for a prescription,
and went home cured. The Office
visit would have cost him just SIS.
A wife I know had her third baby
in a hospital ward last year. For
the two earlier babies hospital ex-
penses had averaged 500 for hos
pital visit, 500 for doctor, $50 for
nurse, and about SIS for presents,
tips, telephone, taxis and so on.
This third baby's bills came to less
than 500.
at wasn't quite as comfortable, |"
she reported. "But then baby par
ty isn't picnic, anyway. Jim didn't
know anything about it until he got
home from a trip, so he wasn't en-
barrassed or shamed. The ward
was amusing, really, and the nurses
nicer than any private nurse I ever
had. Meals are just the same all
over the hospital. And Jim's bewil-
dered face as he looked at my bills
was worth seeing! Doctor S35, ward
81 a day, anesthetics and delivery
room So"
If you cannot possibly lessen your
debts where you are now, with rent
and schooling as high as they are,
and the car, radio, telephone, gar
dener once a week too expensive,
then move. Move to some other
neighborhood. Put the children into
public schools. Let the maid 60 and
manage with cleaning-woman
once a week.
Put Domestic Vessel In Shipshape.
For believe me, the time is COM
ing when you'll want your little
domestic vessel to be all ready for
heavy seas. If the whole family is
pulling together then, children un-
derstanding and helpful, Dad re-
assured as to solvency, Mother
explaining and managing every
thing, then you're going triumphant
ly to weather the storm. But if you
can't manage now to keep your
heads above water, you most GER
tainly won't be able to do it when
taxation and higher prices and the
strains, demands, shortages, depre-
Citations of war days gather strength.
Mary Caseman is a Philadelphia
woman who had to face just these
problems Is years ago. The depres-
sion struck the Casemans early,
from a salary of six thousand year
John Caseman was reduced to no
salary at all. He struggled along
trying for commissions and Mary,
with three children Of grammar