500 " 700 Incidentals........................

300 " 600 Savings, _nil_.
-- --- -- --- Total..............................$3000 to $4000 This goes far toward justifying the saying that a young man cannot afford to marry on less than $3000 a year.
With these figures in mind, what can our $2000 family with two children do?
The rent that they can pay will not cover service or heat.

There must be a maid to fill the lamps, see to the furnace, help with the cooking, and the wife must stay by the house pretty closely and probably decline most invitations.

For the five persons, ten dollars a week for raw-food materials and five for its preparation is the lowest limit likely to be cheerfully submitted to.
Rent, heat, light, etc.....................

$400 Food.......................................