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Show HUNKMhS IllUOIti: M.tltllUll)'.. No man should becoino engaged to a vv oman w itliout having a perltctly frank talk with her in regard to Ids means, and the woman should bu quite as honest hon-est In telling of her qualifications and willingness to undcrtike tu master tho problem ol miking a home on the income in-come tint seems insured to them both, vvrltis Miria I'.irlot In a valuable article nn the "Division of the Family Income" in the February Jjtittt' Home Journal. More thin this, they should both go over this question deliberately, looking nt nil sides of It, Thu changed modes of living, the self-dtnlals, the ndded ex- pense of sickness if it should come, nil should he carefully considered. The mm who for years has spent his Income upon himself, livlngr perhips, like his neighbor, who has n fortune bick of him, ulll often be frightened at the picture pic-ture of the future, which this careful weighing of the subject presents to him, and he may decide cither lo wait a few jenrs or else do what, unfortunately, a great many young people think tlicy mult do go to a hoarding house. The womin may have lived an aimless, careless life, her father being able to support her lu comfort nnd, perhaps, elegance. The picture nny hive in little charm for her as for the man who has asked her to marry mm, and she, too, Is gild to settle upon the boarding house as promising more at) le nml case for less money than can the simple home. This Is one solution of the problem. Another common hip- Jicning is tint tlther one or the other inds or, perhaps, both tho man nnd woman do tint they hive not the Independence In-dependence nndmoril coungc to live In such n simple, iinfishiomble manner as their means would compel them to. When two people feci tint way it would he better for them nnd the world nt large tint they remain single; for vvc have today too many people who are trying to live as If the) had an income 01 many thousands, when. In fact, It Is often tfio case that they have less than tvvothonsand. |
