Show Kathleen Norris Says The Root of All 1111 Evil Evil And And Much Good Bell Syndicate Features r d 9 i S 'S St t 1 r it cw Guth Lucky the man who gets a thrifty wife and the tie woman teaman whose husband will sate saie as well as plan By KATHLEEN NO NORRIS T IS almost impossible for fora IT a man and a woman as husband and wife to agree upon the proper spending of the family income It is sometimes wiser before before before be be- fore you marry to agree that you will differ upon this point than to fondly and blindly state that you will discuss it fairly and agree upon it Of course It has happened that thata a wedded couple faced this problem fairly and kept to their agreement But very rarely As a general rule the husband makes the money and the wife tills fills a dozen places at home cook horne cook upstairs maid caterer caterer caterer ca ca- nurse bookkeeper hostess hostess- and gets no pay It wouldn't make any difference if 11 she did get paid for tor It Is impossible for tor a wife and mother to keep her personal accounts separate from the family's budget She couldn't see Tom wistful for money for tor his tennis racket and Barbara all aglow to go to the Girl Scouts camp and quietly deny them and continue I Ito to deposit her own dollars in her own bank account No mothers mother's money Is everyone's money and 11 If she holds It out she merely feels ridiculous selfish and unhappy Anway Agway mother cant can't be adequately adequate adequate- ly paid Suppose her husbands husband's salary is a month How can he possibly compensate her and keep the home going out of that One hundred and fifty dollars a month would be low pay for what mother does Budget Cramps Style So they go along very much as everyone else does sometimes they get the bills out and decide to do something about It and sometimes they even talk budget But staying staying stay- stay ing big inside a budget is what was once described by a broth brother r of mine as being like trying to dress in hi an upper berth You are cramped onali on all ali sides No sending flowers to dear Nancy sick in the hospital No taxis The cheaper smaller movie houses The cheaper cuts of meat You feel that the ease case and graciousness gracious gracious- ness has gone out of life It hasn't of course A call on Nancy or a note will be far more to her ber than three dollars worth of roses The smaller movies are Just the same as far as the show goes and more comfortable as to crowding crowdIng crowdIng crowd- crowd Ing and seats The cheaper cuts of meat takes more careful cooking and are more flavorsome But saving living economically is hard Just the same Perhaps Tom wants a duck gun feels guilty over the extravagance ance tells you to get yourself the little checked coat Aw what the heck heckl says Tom tired of drudgery tired of saving tired of seeing the woman he loves counting pennies So you get the coat and he gets the gun and that same month the old car Just goes to pieces and somewhat and somewhat scared seared now youre you're committed to pay every month for that car carl The payment on the car and the life of the carwill carwill car carwill will terminate at the same time But now and then a thrifty sensIble sensible ble man gets a thrifty sensible wife They know that Just as money mysteriously melts away under wasting so 80 it mysteriously accumulates lates under saving Theres There's no explaining explaining explaining ex ex- this it Is simply so They know that the saved that looks so puny now will be over a thousand next year and that some day they will be looking at a paper marked Title and saying to each other Home Our own home homel They s1 A 4 thrifty y sensible wife wile of 1 SAVE AND HAVE As everyone know wages have been high and overtime plentiful Profits of businesses small and anel large have been good during the tine last five or six years Savings o of f individuals are at unprecedented levels Each family has lies on the tile average some 2000 in bonds and bank ban accounts Spending also however has been and continues to be on an handed open basis Many who never had more than enough to live on have been luxuries once thought out o of f freach reach While prosperous times are expected to stretch on ahead for at least three or four years the present scale of wild spending can mean hardship and ruin to many many families families families lies as soon as s any pinch comes Money problems account for much perhaps most o of f the domestic domestic domestic do do- strife in the land Few couples can face the hard facts o of f income and expenses realis realis- It is difficult to skimp and save when other people seem to be having fun and spending freely Yet self de nial is the price o of f future security security security se se- se- se and comfort Savings mount up fast i if f the budget is adhered to closely The temptation to make exceptions exceptions exceptions to buy this or that unnecessary unnecessary unnecessary un un- necessary luxury is always present After the first few years however the nest egg will ivill be big enough to permit a afew afew few departures from the rigid early plan know that self-denial self I I today bears a golden interest tomorrow that mid mid- dle-age dle will be dignified and secure that they will not have to depend upon their children for support or go on into old age laboring wearily for tor bread and butter Savings Pile Up Dp Fast These facts are true America has over a million really rich families over 15 million comfortably rich ones And there are other millions who know that they need never know real want All but one fraction of 1 I per cent of these fortunes have b been en made by working folk starting with noth noth- ing lag It doesn't make sense but sav say saying saving ing multiplies your your money just as extravagance lessens it The habit of saving gives you other good things self respect and the respect of your Interest in your own future knowledge of investments Investments in investments In- In vestments war bonds real estate And also It draws you and the man manof manof manot of ot the house bouse closer together your hopes and plans ate are one Lucky the man who gets a thrifty wife and the woman whose husband will save as well as plan But bow how few they are arel To most young couples cosmetics new cars movies taxis downtown dinners dinners dinners' cocktails poker debts are all tant now and doing what the rest of the crowd does most Important of ol all I In 1965 you'll have an entirely dif dU- different ferent terent crowd and may perhaps wish that you had thought of that 1965 crowd a a little more in these days of 1946 1916 |