Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1901 — The WeeKly Panorama. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The WeeKly Panorama .

L.ot)e and Figures. That love will find a way through all difficulties is illustrated by the recent experiences of Philander Simon and Bertha Karger, both of Paterson, N. J. Philander had been keeping company with Bertha about two years,

when for some unexplained reason his love began to cool. Simultaneously Bertha began to fret' and pine away. There had been no actual engagement between them, so that a suit could not be brought for breaking the marriage promise, but

Bertha’s mother, who is not only a woman of expedients but a thrifty soul, decided upon a plan for punishing the faithless Philander. She figured that he had eaten sixty hearty dinners at her house, upon the occasions of his Sunday wooings, which at 25 cents each amounted to sls. Besides this in a rash moment she had lent him $lO. She accordingly began suit for $25. , Meanwhile, Philander, who is also thrifty and a man of expedients, began to do a little figuring on his ow(t side, and promptly came in with a counterclaim for $86.80, which left Mrs. Karger $61.80 in his debt, if the claim were pressed. Bertha, as girls go, had not expensive. In two years she had consumed but one box of chocolates, twelve pounds of candy, thirty ice creams, and 100 sodas, amounting to $9.55. She had only been once to Coney Island, but had had 100 trolley rides, transportation footing up $12.60. Bouquets for two birthdays cost $5 and two books 65 cents, a total investment of $27.80, which shows that Philander had the advantage of $2.80 in actual expenses over Mrs. Karger. This margin Philander increased by putting in a claim for his time, charging 50 cents for each Sunday evening’s wooing for two years, or $52. In the course of the preparations for the suits Philander and Bertha were thrown much together, aud encouraged by the artful lawyers on both • sides, as well as by thrifty Mrs. Karger, who was appalled by the counterclaims, the flame broke out anew and with greater ardor than before. An actual engagement was effected, a day for the marriage fixed, and both suits were dropped, and Philander and Bertha are happy, all owing to Philander’s skill in figuring.