Show J 1 I batand eat and I 1 save j 0 Y cy E RING LARDNER xa X 8 M M ma to the r editor 0 these days most everybody ire preaching economy in ID laveing and etc but the great giest majority dunt know how bow to go about it to lay something aside for a rainy adny of which god cod knows we have had enough of them on longs island this spring but anyway I 1 run accost a married couple of man and wife the other day that lies has got 3 children all under 60 yrs ars of age and the man showed roe me where he be had solved the high cost P problem and was enough weekly so BO as in a few yrs ars he can quit ailt work and not half bolt to worry as they will be enough in the bank to insure he and his family vs want la their old age this man Is a plasterer by trade and only making per week as the union dont allow him to work monday wednesday friday and holidays and only ag day saturdays A M well 1 night this man and the old lady ns as he called his wife set down and had bad a serious talk and begin to figure things out and found they were only laying 1 1110 l ia per week to 1 side and spending all the rest of it I 1 an few yrs ars at that rate chev would be laveing on the bounty of the country so this bird said to his wife we have got to economize or ruin Is staring us in ID the face as aa all I 1 can skimp up in my profession Is per week meek and we aint only of it and wile we are live ing in the lapse of luxury why suppose something happens to me so I 1 plaster no more where would you and the kiddies be at so I 1 propose that we start and run tbt tb house on the budget system so the mrs who had bad never seen the insides of a college asked him what was a budget system well he says the word budget comes from 2 lithuanian words and et ct and it means I 1 will give you 10 per week to buy the food and clothes and pay the rent and washing and services sen ices and etc and I 1 will mill take the other and stick it in the old sav savel eings bank every week and in a few yrs ars we can give the world the laugh even if I 1 cant plaster or get plastered n no more so his mrs was tickled to death and said lets try it well weil she set down with a paper and pencil and figured foiling Is a typical expense account that she made out for a week MONDAY BIONDAY BREAKFAST anchovies ripe olles celery clam broth sword fish ham and eggs liver and bacon lettuce and tomatoes with coley island dressing honey dew a la Is mode coffee rard cigars cognac MONDAY LUNCHEON rum cock tall terrapin rhode island R reds eds port spinach and onions toothpaste coffee and cigars russian turn kummel mel MONDAY DINNER caldr calar martinis lobster guinea hen 0 briens lens potatoes toot foot pudding coffee and eig cigars a rs creme de menthe total expenses on tuesday wednesday and 7 thursday h urs they was all too sick to pat eat anything FRIDAY BREAKFAST butterfish Butter Bsh weakfish halibut sea bass FRIDAY LUNCHEON brook trout perches white fish bsh cat catfish fisli dogfish whale coffee rod and cigars sherry FRIDAY DINNER oysters clanis clams crawfish smelts red hots shrimp blue gills hook line and tinkers sinkers coffee and cigars total expenses 12 SATURDAY BREAKFAST talcum powder porter porterhouse houge Fino smothered onions longs island prairie dogs snipe squab quail pheasant watertown geese bacon and eggs soup and fish SATURDAY LUNCHEON robins thrush larks bobolink bob o link parrots rt canaries o 01 owl ol l eyes coffee and cigars SATURDAY DINNER sherry and egg total expenses SUNDAY BREAKFAST lee ice cream vasel vaseline lne clears cigars and coffee SUNDAY DINNER crackerjack peanuts por pop corn caromelo ca romels milk chocolate chewing rum gum candies coffee ond and el cigars arg SUNDAY NIGHT SUPPER rIt belon in police dogs dog pomeranians Pomer anians lans yorkshire terriers spaniels sp aniels mastiffs ma stiffs boston baked beans greyhounds grey hounds wolf hounds airedales setters betters pointers water and cigars cognac total expenses this left mrs plasterer with bucks per week to throw away on her and the kids as the husband could get along 0 K on his plasterers uniform so she decided decide for the best way to do would be to let the kids run around bare and that left her with per week meek to buy shoes or I 1 pair a week and still leave her to stick in the savel bunk bank As for the clothes outside of tho ali shoes and etc my friend the plasterers tc saved enough shells from the seafood 0 o keep her children dren in shell glasses as they was all near sighted and she saved enough bones oft off the fish to keep herself in corsets and she saved enough fur oft off the dogs to make herself a CO coit it and enough fur off the birds to keep tier in lints hats and enough leaves oft off the lettuce and ancho des to make het hei dresses and all in all it will tak take 6 A whole lot of tough luck for his bla fam lly fly to find in the realms of poverty and I 1 gle gie the details to your readers in the hopes that they fliey profit by it as all a person needs to beat the cost of loveing Is a budget system and a thrifty wife VZ by ta the bell inc |