Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1910 — STUDENTS’ CHEAP LIVING. [ARTICLE]

STUDENTS’ CHEAP LIVING.

Ten Hemhers of the Fared Well at fI.SO a Week. The “Epicurean,” a “self-boarding” club of university students, closed, with the Christmas vacation, the tenth week of its existence. The experiment proved a suoeess beyond all anticipation. Ten boys are in this club, says the K. U. Graduate Magazine. For doing the work—cooking, dishwashing, etc. —the members are divided fato five pairs. Each pair prepares fojpr meals a week, not more than two in success sion. The amount of time required for the preparation of each meal, taking out twenty minutes for eating, averages from one to one and a half hours. In addition to this, Wednesdays and Saturdays are “special cleanup” days. All the members serve In succession as 'stewards, each member holding the office for two w.eeks. Club are secured by them on all purchases. The rotation of the office of cook gives special variety to the fare. The expense of furbishing the combined kitchen and dining room amounted to S3O. Bulk groceries for beginning cost S2O. Work done in furnishing the room amounted to sl4. The rent was $8.50, This made the starting expense about $75. The money for Ihe starting and running expenses was raised by ten weekly assessments; two of $4, one of $2 and seven sl. This amounts to $l7O. The fixtures now on hand—dishes, tables, chairs, cupboard, gas range and cooking utensile —are worth more than S4O. Groceries on hand at Christmas would net over $lO. This leaves $l2O as the cost of boarding ten young men for ten weeks, or $1.20 a week for 'Bach man. The many fiears of starvation and ill health which women, especially, are likely \o associate with bachelor life, certainly do not apply here, for all the members have enjoyed excellent health and have added weight. One man has gained eight pounds, another six and a half, and others almost as much. Pupils in the Philadelphia public schools are being taught to board and alight from street cars in a safe manner.