There is usually one place where the furniture and bric-a-brac and the other season's clothing are kept, but it is only a storehouse or a temporary retreat that holds their property, growing less and less as they move, until they may practically live in their trunks.
The legacy which outranks all the others in disastrous consequences is the notion that the young people must begin where their parents left off; that the house must be, if anything, a little more elaborate.

Therefore in starting life the rent is allowed to consume one third the income in sight, without considering the cost of maintaining such an establishment.
With a probable income of $2000 a year the young man does not hesitate to pay $500 for a house, not realizing that at least half as much more should be spent on wages for the care of the nineteenth-century house, and as much more on incidentals, car-fares, and unexpected demands.

What wonder that the young people find themselves in debt by the second year?
The parents are quite as much, if not more, to blame for encouraging this extravagance.

The father and mother are entitled to their ease and to the use of their income for it, but the newly married pair have, in this age, no right to assume the same attitude.

They have their way to make, their work to do in the years ahead of them.