HOW TO LIVE THRIFTILY.

Evening Star, Issue 16782, 10 July 1918, Page 8

HOW TO LIVE THRIFTILY.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —Let me place before "Soldier's .Mother" the cape of a returned permanently disabled soldier. His wife is granted a- pension of £l per week mid 10s lor each child. I have one child. That makes ray income 30s per week. Can your correspondent give me a menu to honestly provide fur myself and child out of 50.* per week? She may 3ay, as one. of your correspondents did. "Yes, take a job"; but the home needs attention where a sick person is. Of course, the soldier gets £2 weekly pension. Does it not take that £2 to keep Mm in clothes, tobacco, little extras, and, mostly, nourishing food, warm sock.*, and boots! All honor to the Second Division league for seeing to it that their wives and children are loft in fair comfort. The agony of mind is <;uite enough to bear when a man is doing his I>it. without .starvation added, for tho family ha\ e to face that problem when he returns sick and receives his pension if not able to work again or tight. It is up to everybody to see to it that the married fighters' families are treated honorably, e-peeiaily men martied before the. war. I know of a case of a young woman whose husband was killed. She now receives 3Cs per week for herself for life. Xo child te tie her down, yet I have a child to provide for, and receive the same sum to provide lor both. Let "Soldier's Mother'.*" pen travel on the wav to help First I)ivirion returned married" men—Gailipnli heroes—to claim their restroipective pay. Her haters would serve a better purpose than preaching at suffering ones. — 1 am. ete.. Help Ye Onic Axotuei:. July 8.