Show Ir I G c COST si OF 1 1 LIVING 4 How One Family Solved the Problem Happily bit the Folly of Ostentation Mj l J By CHARLES DWYER y 5 NCE upon a n time Ume there thero was WM a n aId Id ONCE family of oC five fire persons In a n small emal city consisting of father ather and mother and three an I t average family in an au average town id aud and this family like lIko hundreds of oC thou thousands tc sands Hand of at other families lived up to and beyond the very last penny penn of oC in ta income i and come year after J ter year y ar The wife mother worried a n great deal over the lo jiP fact tact that It was ens a continual robbing I Peter Pater to pay Paul proceeding but yet yetas yetas yeta could find no noK aho sho as a she aho cast about aboul 1 r K IV t Uzo 1120 Y a 1 f Id I i I within her means Tho The rent light j fuel uel food and other necessities seemed impossible to reduce and there ware certain things In connection with their position in society and the tho bringing up of their children they could not reduce nor escape Finally she evolved a plan and In spite to of or much opposition at homo home and abroad she aho carried It out She Sho took toole a n smaller house in to a less leas desirable neighborhood and set resolutely to work to readjust all their ideas of or liv living livIng living ing Her husband bitterly blUer opposed tho the plan and many of her friends talked seriously to her about ruining her childrens prospects pros while in her own heart she had many an misgivings hut but tho the moving was accomplished and the tho the tha new and difficult task as aa sho she expected ex expected taken up upWell upWell upWell Well It Jt would auld lake talco too long to enumerate all nil tho the pleasant surprises awaiting tho the family CamBy but a u few fow of 01 them can bo be mentioned They discovered first rat of at all that there thero Is a u peace and contentment in living within ones onea means meals that people forever reaching Into the tho futuro for money not yet et earned can never realize while when added to that contentment Is la a knowledge knowl knowledge edge edee that In the savings bank a n nest neat egg csc is Js s accumulating for a rainy day or orold orold orold old ago ngo or the tho education of or tho the A AL r o L 1 They The discovered that neighbors in small houses aro are Just as ns kindly and 1 agreeable as those thosa In lu large largo ones onea often ofton moro more so BO and that life me in a little home hOIDe has hils many advantages 8 Tho ono servant without whom tile the mistress of at tho the house felt she nho could not exist in tho residence on tho the avenue was dismissed and tho children helped with thin the tIt work and too the smaller homo bourn had Lath fewer fower cares carca Wasteful Servants They Tho discovered that a n servant can waste was to and aud destroy a n fearful earful amount of at food and household supplies In n the tho year while whilo her hel board amounts to a l great deal leal In these days of at high prices Tho rho drawbacks failed to ma materialize and Instead of at ruining the tho future futuro of or her hor children the tho healthy work and anel privilege of having father and mother for friends built bunt them up in character and usefulness as nothing else also could True there was little time tittle for society In the tho general sense ot or that word and many of at the necessary things of tho the old life lito vanished van but the tho loss was more than overbalanced by b the overwhelming gain and for tor the first time In the tho ten len cars of married life tho the family stood on Oil a n firm financial basis haills without worry or debt Multitudes of families all over oVer this thia r f f 0 ment of or affairs to make o them comfort comfortable comfortable able and contented but the tho great bugaboo of or what will people say sa keeps ninny many men mon aud and women struggling along to keep pace with tho the stylo style set setup setup setup up in more moro prosperous years or one which never should have havo been beon adopt adopted a opt ed cd Just because you jOU havo started starlet wrong Is no reason why you OU should forever struggle to keep in the wrong wron path lath The only anI honest thing thinE to do is 19 islo Isto lo to get into tho the right path not such an impossible thing by the tho way wa as asman many man think It is and then thon life me will wUl willbo willbe be bo full tuB of ot hope and Joy There are women In this free lana lane of oC ours who actually Buffer culYer when they meet tho thu butcher tho baker balter the tho dressmaker and tho the merchant on account of un unpaid unpaid paid bills hills and yet who lament that there thero Is no way Wll out o t of or tho the dIfficulty Each month tho the pathetic dividing of or ortho tho the income to pay a u here hero and a little there thero goes on but toe position In Ili society must be bo kept up or for Cor tho the sake sako of the tho children the farce must ro on though working people aro are deprived of o the necessities of o life liro and existence seems a n burden too great to tobo tobe bo ho endured by b who must turn lurn and twist and try to keep up appear appearances appearances appearances ances Many Man people Imagine they will lose lOBO all their friends If they pay ten month for house than t dollars l less per a 1 r r L r able ablo neighborhood nel People whose good opinions are uro worth having Slick Mick through thick and anti thin while the tho theother theother other kind nm amo worth nothing either in prosperity or adversity Tho The Unwritten Laws But why IB is a change of oC location so desirable Why not Dol resolutely resolute cut down expenses in Ju the tho old home and andset set Got up a l scale of living that will avoid nold debt and leave something for Cor a rainy day tiny Simply because neighbor tutu ton laws and aud what one ono woman does docs nil all the women do clo If It you OU live in a n neigh neighborhood neIghborhood neighborhood where every ono one keeps a n maid and you Y U attempt to do your our own work you will find fin countless difficulties you OU never dreamed of Tho ladies ladles of or leisure will stroll in to sit around In la your our way wa to pity pit you in a thinly veiled manner to you OU to leave your our work as nS they thoy tell of or their ther pleasures and am excursions from home and to make inako you fool feel that you OU aro are a n much abused person because you OU must do tho the work of or a servant but butIn butin In a place whore where every woman is busy bUB with her ber mornings work and It ILia Is tho the fashion to do for ones self there thero Is no time for or 01 envy onvy Then too tho the children of oC tho the middle class claes aro are as a n rule better hotter bred and more obedient than those left len to 1 l 1 1 t f wry ur p 4 I whoso whose parents live Ilvo mostly for society or business Instead ot of being a draw drawback drawback drawback back it is a n real benefit benent to many boys and girls who have havo been brought up with wrong Ideals to associate In the public schools with the ed youngsters whose parents hold to the tho doctrine that one ono man Is hl s aa ns good hoods are arc largely governed by b as another as long as hes honest So If it you are aro worrying along alone and see seo nothing In the tho future but bul struggle for your position In society at the tho expense of common honesty by nil alt moans means readjust your life lito and bo be happy happ It wont J ho po e hull hulf the calamity I you imagine It will be and once you get out ot of debt and begin bebin saving money mane you OU will be ho so happy and secure and that you OU wont I give a fig for tor what whal tha the world says sas I And do you know lenow what the tho world orld i will wUl say sa It will 11 applaud your ac IlC for underneath all nil the tho sham und and I shoddy shadd there Is ls tho the hearty bearty appreciation tion generously accorded to brave and noble and courageous souls In every oer walk in hr life You will be bo able abla to 10 hold hod your our head up when you walk along the street for there thero Is an Independence ence oneo born of the tho knowledge that you OU owe not any an man that it is 19 pity pit more people cannot taste You will find frIends and ancl neighbors and happi happiness ness n and prosperity In lu your new noW home and aud your only regret will bo be that you ou did not long ago break the shackles of conventionality and live your our life lito in your own way |