Show Norris Expenses Down and Save Money p Bell Syndicate Features pj I Ily ly 1 P company he it is amusing enough but at home bone it is money money money-money- money n F KATHLEEN N NORRIS ORRIS Icy Y HUSBAND has hasIl Il only one fault VI writes Marcia Marcian en n n. n But it is so serious a alit at lit t that I am seriously centering conring con con- ring leaving him We have in married 11 years we were re reone one son a lovely home lice e circle of friends Bobr Bob r in business al- al ugh oh admitting himself that always will be more orin orin or orin in a rut for he is only one in a plant that em- em ys thousands with small himself ence nce of bettering Ee e doesn't drink gamble play pIny si d I with other women He is a aed ed husband and father ud td cd friendly Well then what is isHI HI Ill tell you Bob thinks talks ii ts s of nothing but money when- when I r ve we are alone In company he heusing using enough but at home it rocey ey money money He that he be doesn't earn enough I tie twe n dont don't save that I am exI ex- ex gant I How the point is Im I'm not ex- ex gant I keep a nice house body otly one days day's domestic help helpy i y week eek I dress economically Habile Bobby goes to a private I he be has twice won scholar- scholar K PS that cut that expense down PO I a year Food of course is a act fm ct we are all healthy eaters I n we entertain moderately Wee Wei We i e one one car used mostly by me save money but our bills I Idd added together would not total I IW Among our friends some some- similarly t situated I think we fi i be considered unusually forte fore forte for for- te te e and completely solvent So thIs eternal anxiety about ex- ex 1 Must we buy that dear i necessary to paper the dining z I The he boy has to have roller- roller ill J S. S I 1 suppose That's what I Iday toy day ay in and day out i Parents Were Poor lobs iob's bs b's people were very poor My tere Ste re not I had a lovely home DJ 97 1 father still is employed and ad d nt mother died years Can n you give me a few good liens as to how I can cure my d d of his penuriousness or do doit it is too rooted deep to toto teems seems to be growing on him tr early married years he heroth I roth much more generous and md when ere engaged I actually had to him for his extravagance But Butte 5 te e grows less and less will will- spend money and the result rt Lt t our ouy home atmosphere is unstable un un- stable and strained Feeling Feelings us s s may be the result of early lb ns I have hav asked him to go but he rejected this titan utterly Years ago when ote that money was the most lant I t element in marriage I It 01 t believe you but I do now shall I do 1 k this situation Marcia from from a condition that is preva preva- r I tOur our American domestic scene And Aid I think the cure lies with I t f ather ther than with Bob ii n 11 you married you felt that if it rt ad d a nice home and paid your that was enough Perhaps it itI j I then But it is not now Bob t v the changing temper of the apparently you dont Bob allas al al- 1 as las worked hard he knows the theof of money You never have dit I lt it I is in the employ of an nn tn- tn concern He knows that un tin j 7 rt 5 a helpmate SPEND LESS Money the Ibe villain in ill many many marriages has bas driven drivell a wedge between Marcia j and her ber husband Bob Bob who stems I from rom very poor parents continually continually continually con con- complains because Marcia j does not handle bandle the financial fi end of her ber household duties economically enough She fails jails to save sate any money and in these inflationary times her ber demands for more money increase He cant can't understand where his salary disappears and constantly attempts to curb the spending of any money Miss Norris Norm chastises Marcia J for I or uncalled for extravagances and advises her ber to eliminate many unnecessary luxuries to which she treats herself By putting put her ber shoulder to the wheel Marcia can help belp Bob in building tip up a savings account According to Miss fiss Norris Marcia is not pt ll pulling her ber share of the load When she becomes a helpmate instead of a spend- spend mate there will be less friction and more harmony in ill the household bot less he has exceptional and extraordinary extraordinary extra extra- ordinary capacity he will not rise in that employ Hundreds of fresher fresh er young men are ahead of him inthe in inthe inthe the race Hundreds of others will move out into s separate parate enterprises of their own Bob cant can't either rise or escape So at 40 he sees himself himsel trapped He is not saving a cent His home expenses are increasing with the inexorable in need of the times You are expanding into luxuries wh l hardly able to manage necessities Problem Is Common Your problem is not unusual Itis Itis It Itis is safe to say that in all our cities there are blocks and blocks of small respectable comfortable apartments apartments apartments apart apart- ments whose breadwinners are as anxious as Bob Where does the money go what the dickens do the I women do with It The car is an extravagance beyond the reach of all but 1 per cent note that figure 1 1 per ner cent of the men and women of Europe Private school beauty parlor cleaner flowers drug store telegrams ice skates Minnies Minnie's services services services ices at 1 an hour ice cream for the company dinner How these little foxes faxes destroy the vines and add those becoming gray streaks to handsome Bobs Bob's hair If you really want to help Marcia move from that 85 fiat Sat to a plain little cottage somewhere on the outskirts outskirts out out- skirts of town Put Bobby in public school Do your own hair Cut down cut down cut down so that of that a month can go into government bonds Talk solvency Instead of spending Talk freedom from debt instead of how to pay bills Tell Bob that if anything happens happens happens hap hap- pens to him you and Bobby can c m manage manage manage man man- age splendidly what with chickens and an apple tree and a child or two to board In other words pull your weight of the load Relieve him of worry and he wont won't mind plain meals Stop trying to impress your our richer friends and impress Bob with the fact that he has what the old books used to prettily call a helpmate Bob knows we have stormy weather ahead Get ready for it Shorten sail |