Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1884 — Living on $2.65 a Week. [ARTICLE]

Living on $2.65 a Week.

I earn $2.40 a week, and the rent of my machine brings it up to $2.i65. Out of this I pay 75 cents for rent and 40 cents for food, clothes, medicine, car fare, theater tickets, and a box at the opera. Seriously, though, I buy a quarter <©f a pound of tea, a half a pound of sugar, one pound of oatmeal, one pint of beans, two 10-cent loaves of bread, ome soup bone, and perhaps it costs a couple of cents a week for salt, pepper, and herbs for my soup. I buy a quarter of a pound Of butter a week, and sometimes I get « little milk for my tea. —Sewing woman's statement in New York World.