Show I fA lI iU d F 0 0 j 1 t jt I t I l I I r I ST Jj L loi n e. e 1 Ilo r f 1 tl t t 1 S If 11 it t f ir t f tr 0 r 01 n l LY i f I I It t r Have Living Expenses E Reached the Stage Where Only the 1 a jr Year a Year Man Opp q Can Hope for Wedlock's Wed 4 tr locks lock's Joys ne ld r your fondness for the luxuries luxuries lux lux- CONSIDERING uries urges as well as the comforts of life what is the cheapest husband you 1 think Y you ought to afford Stop look and listen as the railroads remark casually at J grade crossings because its it's more easy to propose than dispose of It is your privilege to name the limit but it i ican l can very readily be your eternal disappointment disappoint disappoint- ment to set the limit wrong And there are about a million different things which are arc I first aids to the mistake I Love Lave is one of them ambition is another weariness ess is a third and plain laziness a a fourth But whatever your determining reason the question is coming nearer nearer- home than most girls imagine f I it the name it it- it HIS S love lo trouble trouble-to trouble to give biro name t the centuries centuries- THIS has earned e throughout lt 1 the big big- disturbing seems to be one d dr r factor in choosing a n husband husban If It it ic I weren't for that all a n pretty girl would have todo to todo toco do co would be to select tho the first F f young millionaire she sho e lays eyes on and adm admire re tho the wedding gifts There Thero might be bo some Borne other girl mean enough to pick the same samo millionaire but ut r rno no girl of real charm nn and winning win wm- min ning ways need Deed feel doubtful miss her And find even if sho she should miss first aim she need not despair a Modern billionaires have displayed displayed dis dis- 3 played an admirable sense of v their responsibilities so 50 long as 4 alimony funds fun s hold out they tt seem willing to give every candidate can can- 10 l atc a fair show I It has been always thus there c is scarcely scarcer a benc benedict in the world who doesn't know of some sorno millionaire his wife could coul have 1111 married if she hadn't made the theof of I mistake of fulling falling in iii love with r O rY him Its It's love lo just love that C interferes with tile the wealthy 1 I make mako if is J 1 marriages girls can they want to nut But now tho the general tend tend- ten tendency rne ency to discredit it that annoying annoy annoy- ing ius factor of love lovo has culminated cul cuI- ti in ill at least ono one organized organ organ- 1 4 movement to end ens the whole foolish business b by putting a ari ri cash limit on husbands whether t k you ou intend to love lovo them or of not its An And a C Cery very ery reasonable limit it itI it s I appears to be bc at first glances glance glance- t no more than 5 a year enough to provide a nice little littlee e ia lint flut t a cook an and general servant t a mo modest cst automobile and maybe if f youre you're economical 1 very ery very velY t a baby And you can call always t I leave leaver out the tho baby t These details have havo not been explained in their entirety b by bythe bythe y 2 the promoters of the movement mo f f who were first heard from in r i.- i. 1 Chicago but the ordinary family family fam fani ily budget that figures now in I IU f. f U up-to- up date to ate scientific households 3 r long ago ago itemized them under aY the thc high lugh costs of living Hying or the I j t costs of high living ing at t a year etrI I I J at B Being just innocent carefree carefree care care- free wi wide eyed maids gazing fl out trustfully upon the happy it I future the members of the 1 Five Thousand a n Year Club of 1 ff i the South Si Side e in Cl Chicago cago have for the present no concern with rith I 1 1 1 I f I f i f i I II IJ J y y yr r I u Ik F K- K 1 1 J I W y rf VS fl f I 1 II 1 I s I t I Ysl cl cly y J rr i J- J r I Ht at I. I V we 1 I I v t I IJ Ir f. f er I 1 I 1 s. 0 I C. C f iJ J J r r 4 TT a n e J 7 r fit L r t I t r 1 l y Y t w wt r r A hi t 1 11 1 1 1 1 1 I Iz I t. t z v. v f t 1 IF j r v 1 L I t vI I II 1 U S t. t I fwd f rT t J 4 c. c iJ 4 f I r I j. j z k r i. i I J j I 4 r Ii I Ji It T I HOW HOV SOME PEOPLE DO I IT I ft Managing an n Income of a Year 1 lent nt il 1 O 0 if 4 Table fable 2 Mont o I le I I 4 CO tin g 1 K Insurance i o. o flO J. J i I t. t end find loan loin 00 r allowance l O JJ f W Wife IJ p l lao Oo t r Incidental CO f Total 1 otal 00 Jr 7 I. I a A Widows Widow's 1000 for for Herself and Fou Four Four- ti Children t 7 Per Rent nt sze Table Cable s J. J 1175 l j I. I lr t. t Service n-Ico n j a CO O r x Coal O 0 f oil nil 5 IS 0 1 i 25 0 I j Children h spending dt nit E money 20 Incidentals n 50 0 J Neet ee t r OJ oi 20 0 I I Total i t ira vV-ira tho more sordid i aspects peets of their plan Their wort worthy t ii P president Miss J Flor Florence uce Catherine has 1105 not 1 r deigned more than thau passing consideration of such r- r 0 trifles 1 i The Tho South Si Side e is replete with youth beauty U t L and that delicate charm of f liL luxury ury with which h every Chicago father delights to surround his hIB his J. J daughters Reared Neared in n such an n atmosphere of or happiness hap hap- a an and unchecked by y the gross considerations ft of 01 necessity th the members of the Club have havo nevertheless gazed in loves love's fond eyes like their 1 less favored l sisters s only more mor more so Where hero the tho I ordinary girl may believe that lovo love comes but once in III a fa a lifetime ilee those f favored beauties know that itis it it- is like a a. summer sigh and strong on the encore r Two Twp three and even more times times love may brush if their lovely brows brow with his fevered lips and all they have to do is murmur Yes ro Which under the resolutions their adopted by club lub they arent aren't going goinS' to do at all for it was was' 1 resolved j that cd no Tin member TI 1 o nf f F this I o ion 1 1 11 11 s f ll marr marry unless Jc after f a full m consultation o t ti v. v vc of f c the tho l executive board it shall have been established that J 1 i c the family income will be not less than a 5 r r l year car and that there is no undue restriction ll upon r 1 the wife ife in the dispensation of or the j t. t resources v l THE LOWER LEVELS f fI fl L' L I j The agreeable experiences of lof the members in In their repeated encounters with mth love lore and the un un- alterable resolve eP expressed t d in their agreement to to v yr leave it to the e executive executive- board promptly and I i pleasantly solve both ends of of the modern modem girls girl's l problem for lor they can have love lore when they want it it i fD f 1 and D thc they wont won't take toke less legs than a year s ear if the they accept it lt OA But what if one is not so happily situated 1 r 1 f What That if one has to fall in in love at a stage b below loY the tho a year a level levelY At what stage of the cost coi of living can a woman feel that she should bo be J able to fa afford tho the l luxury rory of a husband i I You can squeeze through h on a year In b New York a s. young couple couple he he was 21 she 20 20 fell in 10 lovo o in a boarding house All he be earned earned was 50 a n month she as stenographer and an expert received ed just twice as much But that wasn't 1800 a not Tear not for that girl n after t r a t brief p period rio of v married arri d life For Fo a sh short t- t ti time e shedid she shedid h did i keep her position the pair of them paying 30 a n month for a 3 ai flat in Harlem both going daily to work while a maid kept the grocer and butcher bills up to 18 u a week and tho the husband occasionally occasionally occasion occasion- ally aUy rued pawned his watch When one little litHe poverty- poverty I stricken year on the joint income of 1800 1500 had i pasted passed tho the young husband came cume to tho 30 flat with the tho tidings that his wages CS had been raised to 75 5 a month v. v Here now V. was a n full 2000 2000 in income om and more 0 t. for a couple whose circle of fr friends ends asked only a year to be happy and asked them to live as though they ther were happy while the pair of them L J worked themselves to death to let lot a maid ru run runa run a n 1 table on half their theiu earnings and they paid her a goodly slice of the other half for doing I. it They stared at one another and und then produced produced pro pro- the worn well budget pencil rl When they lay by down the stub stub that night the he t. I nun maids maid's 6 doom was as sealed seale an a alife their real Ical married t life had begun b Tho Tiro wife calmly save gave up her position tion HOIl and its its' 1200 a year Thc They fled the flat They i took to a n modest but comfortable suburban cottage t. t at t 15 l J Jat a t month With tho the wife He cooking the thc food foo bills came down from froDl 18 a Ii week to 20 a n month for the they had 1111 a vegetable harden garden of their own O back backof o of the cottage Their coal bills biBs hit them the hardest hardest hard hard- est cst of all nU for the they amounted to GO a a. year f J HERE V THE SAVINGS WENT v I for her personal arsenal et expenses C lenses and hi his h i nn and for all other items in this new slender budget bud ct t i they put their monthly savings 5 of 10 into life t 1 T insurance an and n a building and loan tl association J t t the tho division equal hC between the thc two TIll This 2 i f s was WS n plain case of love lore and good management W without children But suppose the thc children come and suppose the income does docs not I Suppose Suppose Sup Sup- 4 pose JOSO that the thc husband should die and leave only an un l income o of 1000 a it year to the tho wi widow ow for the tho support sup sup- i port of just such a n family as comes cones when it 2 x r. r 1 normally numbers half u a dozen death making it M 10 v io f the five tho widow her baby baby- of two years a I f couple of children r soon to enter their teens and a alad alad lad hIJ of sa say 15 11 or 01 years scar The L 10 experience 0 of tl the JC I. I salaried high 1 Jsn 1 I girl Ir 1 ti l v r stenographer and undo her lo salaried low bridegroom E i when hen thc they determined to live on his 1115 a year ear was typical o of young young wedlock Wedlock wedlock nn and confident eO li el t love f that of the tho widow WIdo represents the tho one c contingency I i kt l which young lovo love dreads r a s. s Heres Here's what the tho wi widow v o c did Jid i She emulated the tIle New York YOlk couple by living I j on ou the outskirts of her city dry and letting the thc young oun i Oll ones Dues S do o their then sensible share in keeping cpin up tip they the ill hr valuable aua le kitchen garden Sho She appropriated b between between be be- tween 2 25 an and 30 apiece ce for the clothing of the tho two younger children doing doing- her own sewing nn and so 0 largely taking care of the tho baby Between her herboy boy bov un and herself herscH sh slip sho allowed a year for dress rA a CONTINUED CO O ON IS INSIDE IDE PAGE P. 1 rte o 0 iio ii- ii I Mme |