Show ww ww eat and save by RING LARDNER M botha these davs most everybody are preaching economy in and etc but the great majority dont know how to go about it to lay something aside for a rainy day of god knows we have had enough of atheni on longs island this spring but anyway 1 run accost a married cou pie of man and wife the other day that has got 3 children all under CO ars yrs of age and the man showed me where he had the high ut problem and was so us in a few yra he can 1 lit work and not half to worry as chev will be enough in the bink to insure he and his family vs want la their old age this imn Is a by trade and only making 2 0 per week as the union dint allow him to work monday wednesday I 1 and hoi idaus and only day saturdays A M ell 1 night this man and the old lady as he called his wife set down and had a serious talk and be gin to figure things out and found they were only laying per cepl to 1 side and spending all the rest of it I 1 an few ars yrs at that rate chev would be on the bounty of the country so this bird said to his wife wo have got to economize or ruin Is staring us in the face as all I 1 can skimp up in my profession Is per week and we aint only of it and wile we are alve ang in the lapse of luxury why sup pose something happens to me so 1 vlasta vl astr no more where would you and the biddles be at so I 1 propose that we start and run thac house on the budget system so the mrs who had never seen the insides of a college asked him what was a budget system air he says the word budget comes from 2 lithuanian words and et and it means I 1 will elve you 10 per week to buy the food and clothes and pay the rent and washing and services and etc and I 1 will take the other and alck it in the old savel bank every week and in a few ars yrs we can give the world the laugh even if I 1 cant plaster or get plastered no more so his mrs was led to death and said let s try it ell she set down with a inper and pencil and figured foiling Is a typical expense account that ahe made out tor a week MONDAY anchovies ripe olives celery clam broth sword fish ham and eggs liver and bacon lettuce and tomatoes cobey island dressing honey dew a la mode coffee nud cigars cognac MONDAY LUNCHEON rum cok tall terrapin rhode island reds port spinach and onions toothpaste coffee and cigars russian kummel MODY DINNER caviar mar tints lobster guinea hen 0 arlen a potatoes root pudding coffee and cigars cherne de menthe total ex benses on tuesday and thurs day they was all too sick to eat any thing FRIDY BREAKFAST butterfish weakfish shirod halibut sea bass LUNCHEON brook trout perches white fish catfish dogfish whale coffee and cigars sherry I 1 RI DAY oysters clams craw fish smelts shrimp blue gills hook line and sinkers coffee and cigars total expenses 12 SATURDAY til cum pott der porterhouse onions I 1 ong a island prairie d i squab quail pheasant town geese bacon and eggs soup and fish SATURDAY robins thrush larks bob o lank parrots canaries owl eyes coffee and cigars R ry and egg total expenses SUNDAY BREAKFAST ice cream vaseline cigars and coffee SUNDAY DINNER crackerjack pop corn caromelo ca romels milk chocolate chew ing gum candles coffee and cigars SUNDAY belgian police dogs pomeranians Pomer anians terriers spaniels sp aniels bosti n baked beans greyhounds grey hounds woj hounds airedales setters pointers water and ilgard cognac total ex 1 25 this left mrs plasterer with W bucks per week to throw away on her and the kids as the husband could get along 0 ivon his platen rs nil form so she decided for the best way to do would be to let alie kids run around hire and that left her with per week to buy shoes or 1 pair a week and still leave her to stick in the sivel bank As tor the clothes outside of th sl aea and etc my friend the plas wife saved enough from the seafood fo keep her children in shell glasses as they was all near sighted and she saved enough bones off the fish to keep in tor sets and she saved enough fur oft the dogs to make herself a coat and enough fur oft the birds to keep her in hats and enough leaves off the let luce and anchovies to make aci dresses and all in all it will take a whole lot of tough luck for his faro lly to find in the realms of poverty and I 1 give the details ta conr readers in the hopes that attey profit by it as all a person to beat the cost of Is a budget system and a thrifty wife 9 by tb hii inc V |