Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1902 — Cheap Living. [ARTICLE]

Cheap Living.

Mexican laboring men work for twelve cents a day, and yet secure the necessities of life and some of what they consider its comforts. This may seem incredible, but it is a fact You see more copper cents in that country and more are used, perhaps, than' in any country on the globe. It is not uncommon to see a Mexican woman go to market and buy a cent’s worth of wood, a cent’s worth of corn or coffee and a stalk of cane. She will make a fire in the center of her adobe house and prepare a meal for the family. They eat cane as we would an apple.