Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1895 — Ten Cents Weekly for Pleasure. [ARTICLE]

Ten Cents Weekly for Pleasure.

Thrift is not an extinct trait in the original home of the thrifty, New England. A young woman writes to a Boston paper to tell how a family of three can live on $lO a week. “My mother,” she says, “is an invalid. My father is foreman in a factory and earns s2l a week, and I stay at home and do the work. Every week we put sl2 away. I dress well and can play the piano. I attend the theater twice a week, but the 25-cent seats are good enough for me. Saturday I cook a quart of beans and buy a loaf of brown bread and one-half pound of salmon, and that does until Tuesday. Tuesday a pint of oysters is sufficient for dinner. Wednesday I buy a chicken or a small piece of lamb, which does until Saturday with a little fish. We use a small quantity of pastry and bread and cake and vegetables. We run two fires, burn gas; we use matches and pepper. My father only spends 10 cents a week for pleasure. When my company stays to tea Sunday we have a few extras. I do all my dressmaking and average four dresses a year.”