Life — April 19, 1906 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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UFE’S ANCIENT TAPESTRIES SPEED THE PARTING GUEST $10,000 a Year Not Quite Enough ‘Ten thousand a year is enough for any man. It is enough and to spare.—Mem phis News Scim N° DOUBT it is enough and to spare in Memphis, but it isn’t in New York. It used to be fifteen years ago, but it is a closer fit now than our Memphis brother \ can probably conceive of. Of course, it isa mighty comforting sum of money to have coming in annually. Of course, it will sup- port a good deal of life. But you, Mem- phis, seem to think of it as affluence. You ws mye | ‘The man who has an income of ten thousand a HiAGelden Roa hi? , sa all for self is only a human hog snout US A. ioe spe 4 He ought not to spend it all on himself, nor even all of it in his family—for you al- low him a fami y he has a wife and four children. May he have a home to live in? He can have ‘a modest one for $2,000 a year. May he take his family out of town in summer? He c se, not a very good one, within reach of town for $500. May his wife have three hired girls and a furnace man? For wages, food and household expenses, allow her $300 a month, May one of the two boys be in college? Say $1,200 a year for him. May the other boy or one of the girls be at boarding school, and the other two children at private schools in New York? Allow $2,000 for the three, including their clothes. That is $9,300, Memphis, and you have not bought your wife a gown yet, nor joined a club, nor been to the theatre, nor ridden in a cab, nor paid for your summer commutation ticket, nor hired your pew in church, not given a penny away, nor paid your doctor’s bill, nor your children’s dentist bill, nor paid your own tailor, nor bought any rum or any cigars, nor paid your family’s car- fares. You are right, Memphis, Ten thousand dollars a year is enough for a family to live on, but not in New York, without prudence, not without restriction in many particulars in which a sensible man will think it wise to indulge his family. In the great centres of population, Memphis, where there are millionaire police captains, the modest comforts of life come very high. Put your figures up one-half at least if you mean them to be applicable to New York. Publisher's Announcement PECIAL attention is invited to the fact that hereafter all but the first two chapters of our novels will be omitted, and in lieu thereof will be found a concise statement, which will prove a means of saving a large amount of time to readers. As an illustration, we give the table following the first two chap- ters of Miss Laura Lean Jibby’s “ The House of the Dark Secret; or, The Wronged Heiress”: 1. Pearl is really the daughter of the wealthy old man whom up to his death she had regarded as a distant connection 2. The false will is proven a forgery, and the true will found. Mortimer d’Aring, the forger, and who has so basely pursued Pearl, flees the land. Being now in her rightful social position, Pearl consents to become Sir Reginald’s bride. . The further story of this beautiful heroine will be given in “The Sport of Fortune, of A Young Wife's Secret,” now being written, comicbooks.com