Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 159, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1910 — The Cost of Living. [ARTICLE]

The Cost of Living.

The limit of frugality appears in the hero of a story told by a writer in the Washington Star. Mrs. Silas Long started out one fall day to get some apples from the orchard. As she put on her shawl, her husband said: ' - “Well, be careful now only to pick the bad ones.” “Suppose there aren’t any bad ones?" she suggested. “Then you’ll have to wait tin some go had, of course!” the old man snapped. “We can’t afford to eat good sound fruit worth 30 cents a bushel.”

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