Show 0 U T N G T THE fa COST OF T thi H EXPENSES OF AND MARRIAGE C chicago paper has figured up the amount which the average young man must spend before the prize Is his own itemized account if you are arc simply an incera average go man mail and knew a young 3 woman whom you would like to make your wife you may figure that from the introduction at first meeting to the be beginning inning of keeping house you will be out that is the chicago rate cash with no discounts for the marriages a year N 4 which chicago sanctions through the license office the parties to the court ships and marriage ceremonies pay a grand aggregate of this thia is on a basis of for the average ceremony and the courtship leading up to it for it must be remembered that not even funerals as an occasion of extravagance equal the ease with which a young man and young woman in love may part with the ever ready dollar no man ever before or over after in his life blows himself with the abandon that prompts him in the short year of his engagement dollars have been compared with doughnuts in wagers to the young man in love tho the dollar has less significance than oven even the hole in that bit of pastry it Is more evanescent that a dream but he puts it where it will d do 0 the most good lie he never wants it back lie he plants it where it draw in iii terest aderest that can be computed but where it is a source of never ending retrospect it should be set down in philosophy that a hundred dollar bill blown by a sober lover upon a smiling pretty sweetheart beats real go gold id bricks at anthracite rates f 0 b dut but allowing all of this as self evl evi dent it may strike the read reader er that nearly a year spent upon the one item of marriage for chicago Is pretty large yet it will be remembered that the poorest of the engaged ones adnes spend money on such occasions na as they never spend it on oh any other and no matter what race or rell religion glon the wedding ceremony is one of tho occasions of a lifetime in the following estimate of these expenditures the individual items and the total may seem out of proportion whoa when it is considered that do de koven street is a street of weddings and children rather than the lake shore drive but whereas the dvera average ge ot of for each and wedder wed dirt q Is s a hundred times more than Is spent JA an some cases it is not the thousandth thousand tn orrt of tho the cost of bonev of tho 1 X s society ventures into matrimony in just one item however the rich and tile the poor fare alike under tile the law ethl thle is the item of alf a In marriage arriage license and inthis m this millionaire C ind and day laborer approach the window of the marriage niagria e license clerk and pay for the permit to take up tip the responsibilities bili ties of married life the state exacts the uniform tho the man who performs the ceremony may get the 2 proscribed prescribed as the justice fee or he may got get a check for a hundred dollars drawn by some groom whose bradstreet rating puts him beyond the RE 2 mm N U U 4 71 IG u aj ircia n s i lb ins ilta remotest possibility of needing to have the check corti certified fied it an bellga engagement gromena ring regarded bo ded necessary as more inore and mare more it has come to bo be the regulation 0 diamond of tile the smallest siaa and mediocre brilliancy scarcely can bo be purchased under 25 again this ring pasil easily Y may cost coal thus before the youn L man has made aw a single formal stop toward tho the altar lie he is out of pocket to ofle alie extent of oc a 8 weeds salary calary taking the ordinary young man inan of the better class is as the e example previous to this purchase baso lie he ila has had the preliminary wool some of which figured into the head of incidentals may be looked back back upon as some borne of the best spout spent money of a courtship the young man who can get to tile the sticking point of a wooing may find himself lucky if he parts with only 10 or 15 in these preliminaries in aries arlos before lie he is married and at home in house or flat the average young citizen has spent the full 50 on the hiie unexpected expected things that come up tip one may malto out the list of wedding preliminaries from the first introduction tro to the time when the young people have settled down as follows pre engagement incidentals carriages and outings 1000 confections Confect ions 1000 engagement rin ring aa 2500 5 0 0 brides trousseau grooms dress 1500 2500 cards and postage grooms squaring with bachelor friends 2500 marriage license V bodding ring to the minister lV wedding edding breakfast 1000 grooms presents to tile the bride I wedding presen tsi wedding trip 2500 obligations after I 1 t the w wedding adding 1000 total 5 0 looking over these items and these fures aires the student of sociology will I 1 1 them under rather than over the tires res as is they urn run in chicago there 3 thousands of opportunities tor for a man in a great city to spend rc r on the gerlof girl of his choice ref is af pf aie coming ng expenses that A are arc duo clue in any household even eva the customary L lays days of grace but if the idea idenar idenor of extravagance should strike a lover his love would prompt him to that old mind cab easing ing assurance that after af tor the wedding both of them will be legin bein in to save that a young man may live cheaper when married ma than he could hope to flo do while single 6 and this is one of the chief reasons for the average chicago wife costing A 4 orp I 1 hap 0 to her husband it if s she h e worth it 0 well another story chicago tribune |