Show KATHLEEN NORRIS Is Not Just LONG when I was cub writes Katharine Crosby in Harpers editor told when I asked for a that if I couldn't live on a week I couldn't live on I thought continues this spirited which she calls Living he was weak in the But now I see that he was and her husband have done nothing sensational in living happily and and what Is more living absolutely without on an assured income of a At least it oughtn't to be But It actually Inevitable Story Her story is the Inevitable one when a man and wife are determined to get what they want from life without charity or Of course they went to an unfashionable neighborhood on the outskirts of their first had fruit trees home-owning venture was of a house that cost and stood on a and had fruit They preserved the raised and paid a month until they owned their After awhile they sold this house at a small profit and bought a bungalow with a rarely has to buy perhaps she would answer that as a dignified Boston lady do not buy we have our When they entertain they turn to good old Boston beans and Apple J don't know Apple but I do remember that my hospitalities years ago used to run to Spanish hot and chocolate cornstarch with a little orange peel In and I imagine that it is about a economical a Of course the sometimes augmented their which was not always as much as in many small But they lived on the and put everything else aside for a The backlog provides tickets when they They are elderly persons and they love Every little while thy rent go to some attractive place and settle They say that for what they want in the way of housing and expenses run about the same Gay Adventure theirs is a gay and you feel it as you read Living And you wonder how many families with five and 10 times that income are as free from like them enjoying every minute of This woman has found the the secret of not struggling to get more money than you legitimately can for one and not living at a rate indicates that you have much more you The difference between owing in old and in the is the ference between freedom and And if slavery is the insufferable condition to us freedom is certainly the most prized and Make all the money you of Ask for the climb to the higher Make a plan for and follow But while you are get down under your and you will find that eiderdown itself is not a more welcome covering on a cold Life is It's a pity to miss the thrills that come from a good realistic look at one's and a heroic decision to tear up burn tilt with windmills and in every other way defy metaphors and the opinion of the neighbors at the same For editor was if you want to live on any income at all you without worry and without You can see all the good old you can buy all the and you can eat And if you can't manage that on a year you couldn't manage it on that much a For proof of this look at your friends who have a They are talking money trouble just as hard as everyone They talk of car household dentist bills and the cost of private One family 1 know on about that Income keeps a son at a school whose charges are a Junior recently borrowed another boy's car and had an I suppose the next thing is a car for said his mother with a |