Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1855-12-26

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essc poor. 10 almost erery nusai,e7 a. that jour
nal there = eomething Which shows the soiicitadt
q fhs writer's for the orer-wofked. p,cosiy-paif
and aiisersng mesrbess Of that community.
whether real or 6csi.ious, examples arc given d
what can be done with even 4 Iulc money. ans
snsse example, are encouraging 10 the poor. that
by living fragxliy, sempcrateiY. and economically,
they may i've well on their -canty earnings As
an Illustration Of this The Tribune gives an exam
PIE Of how family can ike even in the city .,
Ncw York for dime day. Although il tusy
not apply to the condition in life Of many Of our
readers, u may nevertheless not be without hav.
ing some good eject TO readshe illustration.
We have lately learned Lesson, and we will
teach il TO ron. We learned j. OF wornar,--that
y, the practical operation Of Though she SAYS
| siie learned Il Of US, from something she read
about economizine food in the Tribune.
Il had, said she, zone day last week, only ono
dime in the world, and that was to feed me and
my four children all day; for would no. ask for
beg. did live through the day, and did not
go hungry. feed myself and family with the
same
Howl
20, that was not all. bought fuel too
What, with one dime -
les, with one dime. ] bought one cent's
worth of coke, because that Is cheaper than coal,
and because could kindie 10 with piece of pa
per In my little furnace with two or three little
bits Of charcoal that some careless boy had
dropped in the street just in my path. With
three cents bought n scraggy piece of salt
pork, half far and half lean. There might have
been half o pound of 1.-THE man did not weigh
it. Now half my money was gone, and the
show for breakfast, dinner and supper was GER
tainly very poor. With the rest of my dime |
bought four cents worth Of white beans. BY
the by, / got siess at night, and soaked them in
tepid water on neighbours stove till morning
had one cent left. bought one cents worth
of corn meal, and the grocery man gave red
pepper pod !,
''What was that fors"
aWait little--you shall know. OF all things,
peppers and onions are appreciated by the poor
in winter, because they help to keep them
warm. With my meal made three dumplngs,
and these, with the pork and the pepper-pod, !
put into the pot with the beans and plenty of
water for the pork was SALT and boiled the
whole two hours; and then we had breakfast, for
it was time for the children to go to school, We
ate one of the dumplings, and each had plate
it was.
81 kept the pot boiling as long as my coke
lasted and Mt dinner, we ate half the meat, half
the soup, and ono of the dumplings We had
the same allowance for supper; and the children
were better satisfied than have sometimes seen
them when our food has cost five times as much.
The next day We had another dime-it was all
could earn for all could get to do---two pairs
of mems drawers each day, at five cents pair
and on that we lived--lived well. We had q
change, too, for instead Of the corn meal and
beans, / got four cents worth of oat meal and
one cents worth of potatoes-small potatoes,
because could get more of them. washed
them Clean so as not to waste anything by par
ing, and cut them up and boiled all to pieces
with the meat and meal.
(which went fnrthest"
II can't say We ate it all each day, and
didn't feel the want of more, though the chill
dren said, "Ma, don't you wish we had piece of
bread and butter, to finish off with 1t would
have been good, to be sure but bless me, what
would dimes worth of bread and butter be
for my family? But had another change next
day."
s.What, for another dimes'
eyes that was all we had, day after day.
We had to live on it. 1t was very hard, to be
sure < but it has taught me something"
"What is that?"
'sThat poor folks could live great deal cheap
or and better than they do, if they only knew
how TO economic their food. You have told
them how, but they are slow to learn, or 10th to
change from foolish old practices.
"What was your next change
"Oh yes, was about to tell you that. Well
went to the butchers the night before, and
bought five cents worth of little scrap pieces of
lean beef and declare, think / got as much
as pound, and this | cut up into bits, and
soaked over night--an all-important process for
soup or stew-cooking it in the same water
Then bought two cents worth of potatoes and
one cents worth of meal--that made the eight
cents; two had to go for fuel every day, and the
paper l got my purchases in served for kind
ling. The meal wet up into stiff dough, ard
worked out into little round balls, about as big
as grapes, and the potatoes l cut up into slices
and all together made stew or chowder, seasoned
with small onion and part of q pepper-pod that
got with the potatoes. 1t was very good, but
it did not go quite so far as the soup, either day,
Or else the fresh meat tasted 80 good that we
wanted to eat more. But I can tell you, small
as it may seem to you, there is a great deal OF
good eating in dime"
So there is--what pity everybody don't know
it. What world of good might be done with
a dime.