Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1899 — What Paper Costs. [ARTICLE]

What Paper Costs.

Ladies who go shopping have little idea of the cost of their trip, even in such a minor detail as the cost of paper lor the packages they have sent home. A Baltimorean has recently compared the weight of paper with the food supplied to the purchaser. In one day’s purchases it is said that the paper wrapping amounted to about 10 per cent, of the total. In a list of supplies costing about $1.40 he found that the paper which was weighed with the provisions cost 14% cents.