Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1895 — How to Economize in Living. [ARTICLE]

How to Economize in Living.

One-half the world does hot know how the other half lives, -nor do 1 the well-fed 1 'thousands in this’ prosperous city, ‘who daily consult their menus of many expensive and rare courses, comprehend that many other thousands of hard-working, aetivg, healthy, energetic, bustling people live for a whole day upon the price, of a plate of oysters in a fashionable restaurant. Stand upon Park Bow in front of Dolan’s or Dennett’s and ask some'of the habitues of these places-What it Aodstathem daily for their food* -. Let-on®- man—a letter—&carrier—speak for himself : “I have three meals a day—coffee, cakes and either ham and beans or corned beef and beans at each meal—at a cost of not more than 20 cents a meal. They give you bread and butter with the meat, and a fellow has plenty to eat in three such meals. If a fellow Is hard pushed he can get along on 30 cents a day with two meals, with meat, beans, bread and coffee at each. I have known chaps who have been idle for a long time to live upon 20 cents a day—corned beef, beans, bread and butter, and water for one meal and pie and coffee at the other in the evening. A fellow who could live all winter on those two meals if he didn’t have to Juggle cases and barrels and bales of cotton or do heavy work.” Thus It may be seen that a man needn’t starve who has $1.40 a week to spend on food.”—New York Recorder.