Salt Lake Telegram | 1940-05-27 | Page 14 | Courtship and Marriage Love on Dime is Fine, but You Need Lots of Dimes

I Courtship and Marriage Love on a Dime Dimes Is s Fine but You Need Lots o of f Dimes By ERNEST R. R and GLADYS H. H GROVES Challenging though it is to marry marryon on hope and try to establish a marriage with love on a dime cerin certain 1 tain in practical questions must be faced What will happen If the couples couple's best laid plans do not work Have they a second line of defense Young people who are planning to marry today get help from many many specialists Any good bank will give them a skeleton budget showing what they are likely to have to do without and how to manage to h have ve essentials If their Income is not enough for comfortable living or even se security security security se- se they can find thIs thIs' out before before before be be- fore they start They may then take their choice between 1 waiting 2 the wife working 3 accepting aid from his family or hers and 4 deciding to jump into matrimony regardless If they count on living with his folks or hers they must prepare to be very patient Suppose they think Of taking a furnished room let them talk with others who have started marr marriage age in this way first If the wife's working is to enable enable enable en en- able them then to marry they will be wise if they first make sure that she can get and hold a job Insurance companies have moderate moderate mod mod- erate crate priced policies some as low lowas as 30 a year which in the event of the husbands husband's death would pay pay his widow a lump sum of several hundred dollars and a number of monthly sums equaling the salary checks he had been getting It would be still better if one could take talce out a parenthood Insurance in insurance insurance In- In policy which would fi finance finance finance fi- fi nance the coming of an unexpected baby while the husband was alive for this is what upsets the budget I The very fact that one cannot insure against this financial liability liability liability lia lia- shows how great is the probability probability probability ability of its occurring Young couples who take this into account make out two budgets before marrying marrying marrying mar mar- one with and one without a baby in the first year or so of marriage Next Frankness leads to understanding under under- stanc standing ing