Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1918 — How They Lived In Early Days. [ARTICLE]

How They Lived In Early Days.

Men and women who are complaining that the increasing cost of food staples is making the purchase of some luxuries beyond their means should read the account of the privations which ths people of medieval England had to suffer, notes a'correspondent. They lived without sugar until the Thirteenth century, without coal until the fourteenth, without butter on their bread until the fifteenth, without tobacco until the sixteenth, and potatoes until the sixteenth, without tea, coffee and soap until -the seventeenth,, without umbrellas, lamps and puddings until the eighteenth, without trains, telegrams, gas, matches and chloroform until the nineteenth.