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Show OUGHT WE TU MAURI ? The Chicago Inter-Qccfi is Hgitat-jng Hgitat-jng the question " Ought we to Marry?" and an army of correspondents correspond-ents are trying to help the editor solve the queslioj. which is one of Figures mainly, satisfactorily. The iroatmcui of tho subject differ.) as widely as the various styles of living. One writer who livet iua suburb ol Cliie igo. having hav-ing a wife and two children, and owning own-ing his house, elaum that with ordinary ordi-nary economy his expenses will reach the sum of if 1,400 a year. A few of the principal items of hi housekeeping housekeep-ing expenses are, groceries, $-78,513: meat, $7S,5o; clothes for .himself, $79.8-1; for his wife $Sh34; for his children, $o7.4S; servant girl, $125. There are a great 'many minor items including scnooling, lepairs, furui-1 ture, traveling expenses and 'uel, also street car fare this last item $106. Ho concludes that living 1 on $1,200 in Chicago is aa impossibility. impossi-bility. A Des Momts, Iowa, man says be can live comfortably and save $100 or $200 out of bis $1,300 salary. Another writeo (hat "there are are plenty of couples living to day in Chicago ou $G00 a year, who are most estimable people, and who are en.ibled by their eensiblo management manage-ment to live in a neat and comfortable comfort-able manner. And still another who Bigns himself "One Who Knows," says: " You eg men, young women, believe me, two loving hearts can grow fat upon less nan $1100 a year, if properly, judiciously managed." There is no question that Americana, more especially thoso living in largo cities, have become be-come the most extravagant poople in the world. A German family will live on far less means, and the French peoplo are noted for economical habits. There- ie ft growing desire among Americans to rise upon the surface of society as fast as possible, and this tendency creates a necessity for living fully up to or beyond their incomes. The boys aim to reach a professional life, and the girls to at-taiu at-taiu a good social position, which may secure them wealthy husoands, and frequently the whole interior life of a family becomes a burden instead of a pleasure on account of an extreme ex-treme haste to get up in the world. Half of the failures in life come from a lack of adaptation not only of means to ends, but of ideas to realities. real-ities. The financial millenium may someday be reached, when but little work will be neede-d ou the part of any individual; but peoplo will get poor if they idly wait for it, and will be perpetually uncomfortable if they allow themselves to discount their future for th beuefit of the present. A fine piano is a luxury of civilisation, and it would be a grand thing if Uncle Sam could be induced to furnish every young lady with one; but as the crop , of music teachers is large and con-stantly con-stantly increasing, it may be that an introduction to tho kitchen of the daughter, and tho savins; of the expense ex-pense of the hired girl would be the salvation of many uf thoso city families, fami-lies, who grub along in poverty during dur-ing a life time. It is to bo hoped that these reflections will be applicable applica-ble to nobody in Utah, and that uli the young men and giris who waul U get married may do so without hav ing to stop to deliberate on trie question ques-tion of housjholi economy, though we fear the same rules prevail here a elsewhere. |