Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 132, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1913 — RATIONS FOR 7 $1.01 A DAY [ARTICLE]

RATIONS FOR 7 $1.01 A DAY

Chicago Charities Start a Campaign to Show Wives How to Buy.

Chicago.—Menus have been prepared by the visiting housekeepers of the United Charities showing how families of seven can obtain a day’s rations for 11.01. , Commenting on the situation, the finance committee of the organization has issued the following statement:

“Here is a situation of which every man and woman in Chicago should take cognizance. One in every seven of the population has come in some way to the attention of social service agencies in one year. Only one in every 300 give support to the United Charties, yet that organization be* friended one in every seven persons in the city in 1912. “The United Charities can continue work on its present basis only two weeks longer, unless funds are forthcoming Immediately. Contributions of any size are welcomed. If one in every seven persons of the entire population is in need, then no organization needs adequate support in order to "Teach them more than the United Charities. Its facilities in the way of trained visitors to serve the distressed need to be augmented at this acute time, not reduced.”

The visiting housekeepers of the socity have been initiating housewives in straitened circumstances into the science of judicious buying. Accounts kept by tenement housewives —even those with reputations for economy—often show bad buying. Three mistakes common to the injudicious housewife have been found to be: First, the loss through buying in small quantities; second, the extravagant price paid for package goods, and third, the loss through buying from custom rather than for food values.