Voice of the People: H.C. of L. and Love
H.C. of L. and Love
New York city: What inducement is there nowadays for a couple to get married? The apartments now being erected are so small one can barely turn around in them, and besides they cost a small fortune. Children are barred--they might spoil the house, and besides it isn't fashionable to have children. Can it be that agents and landlords were never kids? I am engaged, but am actually afraid to get married despite my dreams of wedded bliss and a life with the best man in the world. Pray tell me, what's to become of the young people today who don't even dare to think of marriage on $40 a week?
APPREHENSIVE
["Voice of the People," New York Daily News, May 21, 1924, p.15]
["H.C. of L." stood for the "High Cost of Living" which caused so much complaining that it was shortened to a more thrifty abbreviation, saving several letters if not much money.]
New York city: What inducement is there nowadays for a couple to get married? The apartments now being erected are so small one can barely turn around in them, and besides they cost a small fortune. Children are barred--they might spoil the house, and besides it isn't fashionable to have children. Can it be that agents and landlords were never kids? I am engaged, but am actually afraid to get married despite my dreams of wedded bliss and a life with the best man in the world. Pray tell me, what's to become of the young people today who don't even dare to think of marriage on $40 a week?
APPREHENSIVE
["Voice of the People," New York Daily News, May 21, 1924, p.15]
["H.C. of L." stood for the "High Cost of Living" which caused so much complaining that it was shortened to a more thrifty abbreviation, saving several letters if not much money.]
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