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Show I JHOIV PEOPLE GET BY. H In these high price times, it is certainly a mystery how H some families manage to get by. When you consider how H prices have risen from 50 to 100 per cent, while wages H and salaries have not gone up in that proportion, it is a H problem how some families manage to exist and keep H together. H For a great many people it has been solved by the H :aMlity of their children to get work and help support the H family. There is such a demand for work of all kinds, H that almost any young person of the most middling in- H fcelligenec can find things to do. It sometimes seems fool- L Ish for so many girls to train for stenographers; yet tha m demand for them keeps up. As fast as one lot gets able H to lake positions, a previous group of them have been m .married. H A young man who can't get work today must be either H Incurably indolent or incredibly stupid. An examination H -of a leading metropolitan paper the other day showed H .about six columns of advertisements of help wanted, and H tmly a column of situations wanted. Usually the propor- H tion is reversed. B ' So when one wonders how the man who Is getting H $2.50 and $3.00 a day can get along, it must be considered H that frequently he has several children working and turn- B ang in money toward family expenses. The whole family H "may liave resources of $2000 a year. The people who have B courage to marry and have children often get the most Bf comfort out of life. B Of course the young married man with a family of little ones has a heavy burden. If the wife goes out and B "helps earn, the family suffers and the children run wild. B The garden and the chicken house are a wonderful help B for such people. They must be content with smaller H apace than their fathers had, but they need a roomy and B. well utilized back yard. The outskirts of any town supply B that, and an inexpensive becycle will enable the head of B the house to get to his work easily. |