The evening world. Newspaper, February 9, 1916, Page 10

q Sd os WHEN THRIFT MES GROW TO DOLLARS. THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1916. AND SYSTEM > JONINTHE HOME BUDGET ing Fund and her nephew, thirteen years old. ‘ingurance. | thet we lay such emphasis on saving temfly. fused to work after hours delivering (packages for a dyeing establishment, Jand earned $1 a week, He didn’t al- ‘together like it when I insisted on his ‘putting a part of it in the savings M ibank. Of course, as he grew older, the kept on working and earning ex- tra money, but never at the expense ‘of his education. I always helped him ipave a substantial part of it, until the learned to do it himself, and now Ine'’s giad I was 60 severe with him, .He has recently bought an automo- ‘bile, which may look extravagant, but ’s Cold Compound” is the Surest, Quickest Relief Known—It’s Fine! i Relief comes instantly. ind toe taken every two hours until BREAKS A CO IN A FEW HOURS lew England Woman Tells How She Taught Son to Save—Man’s Shav- Phone Nickels Quickly Mounted to $3,100. ‘The Tarift editor recently had the pleasure of talking to a thrifty New ‘England woman who at the time was on the lookout for an investment for Tt was strictly a matter of course, she (explained, that any boy in their family should have some provision made for his finaficial future. Her son had just married at the age of twenty-six, and although he was receiving only a moderate inoome he had managed things so well that he was able to start with a completely furnished home, le rather large bank balance, some conservative investments and plenty of | “It’s because we're New Englanders, and naturally thrifty, I suppose, money,” she sald. “When my boy was in school he@—————————-———————— he has himself well in hand, and he deserves something of the kind.” | $250 in Prizes for the Best Common Sense Plan of Saving ‘The Evening World, co-operating with the American Bankers’ Association, is conducting a campaign for thrift. | | \ Tt fs not the easiest thing in the world to eave money, but the { readers of this paper during the next few months will be given every encouragement to learn how to do it. Cash prises amounting to $250 will be given to these whe show the most sensible plans of home or domestic financing. The Evening World campaign is designed primarily to help and women earning $160 a month or less. will be announced later. Articles will be published on Wednesdays and Saturdays. each; ten prizes of $5 each; tw cannot publish a few letters of people having larger salaries and larger fam- {lies and more expenses. People hav~ ing week can have only #0 much food or clothing of ordinary quality and have ; -actically no position to keep up, but if you go up a few steps higher, expenses increase, and if you could show where to save it might be helpful. My husband earns $260 per month and when he reads of people "living and saving on $26 per week he “But ae far back |tninks I ought to be able to keep jas I can remember the practice of thrift has been a watchword in our) house on about $10 per week so that he could save the remainder. “We have four children and one maid, making seven in family with a visiting wash woman once a week; we pay $40 rent in country, away SHE RAISED HER BOY TO BE A! from Villages. 1 cannot provide food SUCCESS. Boys reared in such surroundings could hardly fall to develop habits of thrift. She didn’t raise her boy to be a movie fan or a pool shark; she merely made him a success, The Thrift editor was giad to re. ceive this letter: “STAPLETON, N. Y. To the Thrift Editor of The Bran ing World : ing, etc, Our monthly expenses total “r writing to ask you if DISSATISFIED.” |. “Hence, without any deprivation, I | oo Label bt ated ISSATISFIED.” | nave on this system a total of $3,610 D discharge of nose running, relieves sick haa Noting ca inthe, word gives such prompt rl aa "Pape Cold om pound,” which costs only 25 cents at any drug store. It acts without assistance, for less than $20 per week, whicr gets a very good table, $20 a month wages for maid, about $10 a month laundry, about $5 for gas and elec- tricity, $2.80 for telephone, $25 for clothes for self and children, The American Banker Association offers $150 In prizes, and The Evening World adds $100, making $250 in all. The prizes will be as follows: First prize, $60; two prizes of $26 each; five prizes of 610 five prizes of $2 each. All correspondence will be kept confidential, but it will be neces- sary for you to give name and address, Address all letters to Thrift Editor, Evening World. KEEP LET- TERS WITHIN 200 WORDS. The privilege of participating in the cam- paign is open to every one. There are no conditions, The Committee of awards ‘ 4 tr amounts. It is better to set aside small amounts regularly and matically. Lack of thrift in many cases comes from the idea that it is only worth while to save the dollar, five or ten dollars at a time. This 1s not the proper system, The proper | system for the salaried person is to set aside the nickels, dimes or quar- to ‘8 of employment were wasted on| w the wrong system. Fifteen years ago I installed the right system, by sav- ing small sums. 1 purchased a dime bank, in which I dropped ten cents hi The change I never missed, but helped | b my savings account $36.60 each year.| Later I advanced the price of my shaves to twenty cents, so that to-day my “shaving fund,” together with in- terest in the savings bank amounts/ to $1,070, “Beside my telephone at home I have installed a box into which I drop a nickel every call I make. Averag- ing about five calls a day, nets me at the end of each month §7.60 from which I pay my phone bill of $4 and have for my savings account the bal- ance of $3.50, or $42 a year. This s$- WILLIAMSBURG ROBBERS One Cafe day twenty-five burglaries were com- mitted in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. 2 | gang of young drug fonds is at work. Street; Prior's Cafe, Powers and Olive Streets; Diefenbach’s Cafe, Olive and Devoe Streets; and Waterbury Streets ; Stanley Slavoek, grocery, Cage, Catherine and Grand Streets; Levy Brothers, hay and grain, Grand Street, near Bushwick Avenue, robbed three times in three di the first visit the burglars took the cash register and on the second they cessful, The third time they ripped lead pipe from the plumbing, causing $200 damage. under the direction of Capt. Carey, have started a the Belleclaire Hotel, he Si meena, the Supreme Court he first ten of my twenty-five | brought againgt her brother-in-law, Ed- ar Jury also awarded Cross alleged that she visited the apart- | ments of her sister, Mrs. Wilson, who was not friendly every morning upon shaving myself. | «truck by Wilson. The caso was tried Starvation Will Not husband's clothes, Then th travelling expenses, coal, newspapers, husband's lunches, » all the many extras of everyda: leaving not much for pleasure, enter- tainment, doctors’ bills, extra shool- tem thus far nets me $1,200. “In recent years I have resolved not | », to spend any dimes received in change, | but place them in my dime bank every day or two, In six years this has| amounted to $1,340 including Interest The problem indicated by the foregoing is only, too ovmmon, but it ds not often aired, Families with incomes above the average often saddle themselves with ex- penses which are considered necessary for their station, but which in reality keep them in a hopeless rut and prevent them from making. any adequate pro- vision for the future. The writer, however, is somewhat pessimistic over her accomplishments, for if she can keep her budget down to $214.50 per month she has a mar- gin of $35.50 to work on, which is infinitely better than spending all, Probably no one item is seriously out of line, and it may be necessary to make a series of small cuts on a thoroughly syste- to my credit in bank, without feeling drain on my salary. aig “w. L. Cc." Such a system is bewildering to the average person because of its very simplicity. “W. L. C.” ts ac- 4 complishing wonders by paying money to himself and keeping th change. It would take a stow heart to start such a comprehen- sive scheme all at once, but pos- sibly the remorse over the ten wasted years was sufficient to change him from a_ careless spender into a relentless saver. | p; Any one of his accounts will stand the test of arithmetic, but the marvel would be the ability to go through with ane one of them for any length of time. Had headache, dullness, feves 98, sore} matic basis, with all members of this writer started ten years throat, sneezing, soreness and stiffness. the family taking an active part, earlier dp his campaign of thrift |.) Don't stay stuffed-up! Quit blowing} #0 that the economies aimed at the country might have had an- and ag ng! Ease your throbbing] 4 be realized, other contender in the financial ot arena, HIS “SHAVING FUND” AMOUNTS TO $1,050. F Hero 1s another correspondent who TO SAVE. = The conversation of two lads in Diet, . are ‘not the correct methods of elimin- ating digestion disorders large enouxh. I eat like @ horse since I'm using’ Stuart's all kinds of TWO BOYS STARTED THIS MAN ri DO 25 JOBS IN 3 DAYS Robbed Three Times in That Period—Police Suspect Young Drug Fiend Gang. During the three days ending yester- The police theory ia that @ Among the places robbed ai Albert Buchterkireh, No. tre cafe 61 Grand Poliah Restaurant, No. 9 Grand Street; Jehle's Cafe, Maujer No. 94% Grand Street; Grand Albert Buchterkirch's was On plas trom led to wreck the safe, but were unsuc- i ‘The detectives of the Seventh Branch, i campaign against corner | ungera in their search for the burglars, i —_—_-_—> rf Assault by Law, | Mrs. Jeanne G. Cross, who lives at! awarded in yesterday a verdict 0 in a suit for assault she Ww. Wi The | ross, Mra. ilson, a bond broker. Edward A. Ci usband of the plaintiff, $1,500. to her, and’ was ff) efore Justice Shearn, i} Cure Dyspepsia’ But Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets Will Give Your Stomach the Rest It Needs Without Starving It. 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Your coal using furnaces etc., we can,—without in- convenience to you—quickly change to Gas using We invite you to visit our INDUSTRIAL APPLI- ANCE SHOW ROOMS, No. 130 East Fifteenth Street, corner Irving Place, where Gas appliances are ready to be operated for you. that you may see the exact quantity of Gas that is re- quired to operate the appliance in which you are inter- ested. Experts are in attendance to give you desired information, or communicate with any of the following A meter No. 2084 Third Avenue N Tel. Harlem 5385 “No. 281 Lenox Avenue Tel. Morningside 120 No. 173 Hunter Avenue Long Island City N Tel. Astoria 1086 “The Right Way is the Gas Way” Consolidated Gas Company of New York GEO. &. CORTELYOU, President shortly after the completion of the | Woolworth Building I saw two little ‘chaps standing near the Barclay | Street entrance arguing. ‘I tell you dimes butit this, said one. ‘No, the other, ‘dimes and nicke “This kept ringing in my ears for days after, until | decided that dimes | gy and nickels would build something for me. I went to one of the 6 and 10 cent stores and bought a round bank for nickels and another for dimes. 1 had been saving a dollar a week for the preceding year, but the green- backs didn’t give me as much pleas- | ure to count as tho silver dimes and |the nickels, ‘The silver inspired mo, and to date I have saved $900, with | | which I intend to buy a suburban home, as I consider real estate the hest investment and a home the best thing to have. H, B." This is simply another case of good results obtained by laying aside small amounts persistently. | The Woolworth Building and the Metropolitan Life —_ Insurance Building are monuments to thrift, as both were built on nickeis and dimes. | The man who works on commission | | can hardly hope to have hie budget as| well standardized as the man on a | salary, but for that reason he should | take more than the ordinary amount of care to make his system elastic [enough to stand any unusual strains, pl ated | MAN FOUND IN HOSPITAL. ‘Thomas Donal sixty, of No. 127 Main Street, Flushing, L. I, who disap- peared 27, on leaving Bellevue Ho | piual, was found a patient in St. Joh | Hospttal, Long Island City, yesterday Donahue had been treated in Bellevue | for cancer and arrangements were made for him to go to St. Rose's Home for In- |‘ curables. He left Bellevue with the un- | derstanding he would go to the home. The St hn’s Hospital people say | Donahue was brought there by a man who found him near the Queensboro | Bridge plaza several days ago. eM bt AH | NEW ORLEANS ENTRIES. is connected so sy jo. 32 West 125th Street Tel. Harlem 3533 a mi bitte, MS jo. 1815 Webster Avenue Tel. Tremont 2610 1 three-year olds and, 1 Bowe Selling Handi ‘one, mile, four-sear-olds er, Fly Ho as medical world can readily be made by any woman or even © n ulated sugar ac polsons AFTER “La Grippe” HEAVY ‘COLD you need Building Up Genuine Ny PORT UWINE Combined with OLIVE OIL and in a week or two, note the im- provement. Ask your doctor. No taste of oil. At your dealer's, $1.00. ‘Take no substitute. " coe Made at Home, Touches Spot. Cough and Cold Syrup : | | A arent, big, full pint of laxative cough | rup ef the finest quality known to the To a pint of half ‘pint of ie'and cool, Obtain at drug store | No. 1909 Amsterdam Ave. FAIR GROUNDS, NEW OR-| bay any family to Tel, Audubon 4600 8. La. Feb. 8—The entries fOF| jon’ ‘ae Pneumonia, — bronchitis," wors a as follows: throat, diphtheria and o mption, i is Courtlandt Av. & 148th St. J tive and marveitousy quick In action and per Tol. Malvees 8000 Tianent, t00, " Containe no opiates” or | #]| Advt. 22-Karat My easy payment INCI 245 W. 42d St., 1) Kenmare St, * Sa es ahah ine 22 Ki y Urge Work interest you,| z gor to Laric Theatre, Graud 0. Ly 1 BRA nln! ® sli SUBWAY Direct to A. & S. Entrance—HOYT STREET 1 H nail on “BROOKLYN | 265 Minutes from 96th Street, 22 Minutes from 72d Street, 17 Minutes from Grand Central, 9 Minutes from Brooklyn Bridge A'N AA TR Again a Thursday Thrift Sale Brings Fine Anniversary Offerings Each one of these special Thursday items— prepared from the double point of view of Thrift before. Women’s Spring Dresses, $9.98 Fashioned of taffeta, striped and plain, mes- saline, of crepe de chine, some of fine serge; some with sleeves of Georgette crepe. Showing distinctive embroideries, buckles charmingly placed, the skirts with cascade drap-~ eries, pockets, pleats, smocking and flares. The colors fashionable and desirable for Spring. All sizes for yomen. Silk Poplin and Serge Dresses, $5.98 New Spring models, on lines distinctly pleas- ing. Excellently made—such Dresses as will find a place in every woman's wardrobe. The price is most unusual for the goodness embodied. An assortment of colors. Sizes 34 to 44, Second floor, Central Building. Women’s Spring Suits, $14.75 There is a wealth of dash in their smart styles. Three different models—with nothing about their very unusual newness to denote the low special price set for Thursday. Of stunning shepherd checks, in Norfolk box-pleated mode, the wide belt with double rows of mannish buttons; a maroon cord lacing from button to button. The collar and cuffs of white glazed kid, with maroon braiding. Of poplin, in a charming flare-from-the- hips, snugly fitting fashion; the rich navy blue relieved with contrasting or blending faille silk. Of serge, in a semi-Norfolk style, with a handsomely belted skirt; a Suit that many wom- en will find most becoming. Full size range. Second floor, Central Butiding. Women’s Spring Coats, $14.95 They have the spirit of March days in their breezy lines and sport trimmings. Of twilled and plain coverts, of whipcord, rainproof tweeds, poplins and checks, Uniquely belted and full flaring in generous fashion, With over-collars of striped satin, with buckles and buttons applied with discriminating taste. Some show new cuffed bottoms and self- colored stitching in profusion—the new ttim- ming of French couturiers, Linings shoulder and half length. Blue, black, tan, 34 to 44. Second floor, Central Building. $1.50 to $2.00 Corsets, 98¢ In four well-known favorite makes—Her Majesty, La Reine, P. N. Royal and Worcester. A variety of styles in these Corsets. $3.00 W. B. Nuform Corsets, $1.49 Excellent low bust model, with long hip line. $5.00 to $8.00 Corsets, $2.98 High class, perfectly fitting models of fine white French coutil, beautifully trimmed and finished. These are discontinued present styles, to be closed out, Beoond floor, Hast Building Women’s Stockings, 29c Pair Extra size. Regularly selling for 35¢ and 49¢ pair, Of fine cotton, full fashioned, with elastic double garter tops and reinforced heels, soles and toes. In black or tan. Women’s Extra Size Vests, 9c Would sell for considerably more if it were not for slight imperfections, Of ribbed cotton, Btzeet floor, Centra) Building, Children’s Princess Slips, 79c Elaborately trimmed nainsook Slips, with lace insertions and edging; a dainty embroidered medallion in front. Sizes 8 to 14 years, ‘ Second Mecr, Fas: Building Sale and Anniversary Sale—is so good that it | should all be gone at the close of the day, if not Good House Dresses, 65c An assortment of well made, generously oa Dresses, of gingham, percale and cham- ray. Light and dark colors; sizes 36 to 46. Crepe Kimonos, 75c and 85c Three styles in these crepe Kimonos, showing pleated organdie collars and cuffs and pretty scalloping around neck and down the front. Balcony, Central Building. Cambric Combinations, 26c A combination with drawers, the cover trim- med with eyelet embroidery, and cotton torchon lace; the drawers lace-edged. Store orders only. Two Specials in Petticoats 26c. Of cambric, with ruffle of eyelet em- broidery and underlay. Store orders only, 66c. Petticoats with deep flounce of em- broidery and dainty ribbon-run beading; some have narrower ruffle of fine blind embroidery with ribbon-run top beading. Seoond flow, Kast Butiding $1.49 Leather Hand Bags, $1.00 Leathers are in wide varieties; styles are de- sirable present styles; all richly lined and fitted with coin purse and mirror. $3.94 Fine Moire Hand Bags, $2.98 Spring’s choice in Hand Bags. To wear with the new suit or the Spring frock. The correct new shirred styles, with handsome frames and rich silk linings, and fittings of silk or leather; chain and silk handles, Sumet floor, Central Building Women’s 8c Handkerchiefs, 5c Of mercerized muil, hemstitched and embroid- ered in either white or colors. About one dozen patterns in the assortment. Women’s 12!3c Handkerchiefs, 8c Of mull, daintily hemstitched; either printed or embroidered. Women’s 49c Handkerchiefs, 25¢ Of all-linen, with wide hems and beautiful embroidered motifs, Stet floor, Central Building 12c Photo Frames, 8c Miniature and card sizes. Silver-plated finish. Street Noor, centre, Cenizal Building 50c Writing Paper, 25c Box Also Correspondence Cards. “Peau de Peche,” a beautiful peach color paper with a novelty block design running through it, Paper, Envelopes and Cards have gold edges. Each box contains 24 sheets of paper or as many cards, with 24 envelopes to match. Several sizes to choose from. Street floor, Fulton street, East Butiding, $1.15 Barrel Hampers, 85c The Basket Section has also reduced the prices on the other sizes of Hampers, conse- quently on Thursday the medium size, the regu. lar price of which is $1.28, will be marked 95¢, while the large size Hampers, regularly priced $1.49, will be $1.15. . Small Size Braided Top, Hand-Mad. Willow Hampers, Usually $1.29, at 98 Medium size, regularly $1.55, at the larger size, regularly $1.68, at here si The Sundries Section Offers the Following: Goddard's Silver Powder, regularly 24¢, at, Magic Metal Putz, regularly 37c, at..., Magic Silver Cleaner, regularly 24c, at. Bestene Scouring Powder, regularly 4c, at 3 for, .10¢ Our Favorite Ammonia, regularly Sc, at 3 for....10¢ “Witch Kloth” for polishing silver, regularly 19¢, at Bt Wood Salad Sets, consisting of fork and larly 19, at baie 2 Dover Egg Beaters—the 1Sc, at