The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1856-06-05
ON e DIME.


the n. \. Tribune sorae time since. and laid
it aside to use it ght be needed. At the
present time, when we hear much of hard
times. and SO many telling Of practising
economy, We think this story will open way
to economize-for we hear people daily say,
they "hav- bat dime
lis little sum-'tis offer given for drink
or . ciyar--'tis soon burnt out and wasted -
Il takes ten dimes TO make q dollar. and dol
lar is common price for single meal 1t
is soon esten-its effects not lasting, ex
cept when it produces dyspepsia, and then i.
often costs hundred dimes TO purchase med
icine that does not cure the disease.
To those who never dine for less than q
dollar, how unsatisfactory wouo be . dinner
! for dime. Reader. have YOU ever reflected
how many entire famile. in this city. where
food is 50 dear. dine every day for less than
one dime? Did you ever think Of bestowing
one dime for charitable purposes, and how
much good that would doe What if every
subscriber 10 The Weekly Tribune should
give one dime with his subscription. to be
applied to the necessities Of the needy and de-
serving poor in this city-did you ever con-
slider what q it would be? Look at it
1877. 900 subscribers At one dime each is
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chase bread. say at FIVE cents a loaf? 1t
would buy l.74O 900 loayes of bread. What
if we should announce that such quantity Of
bread was about to be given to the poor in
this cityl The whole land would rejoice
How much can be done with one dime!
Let US what we would do with it if we
had but one--ony one dime in the world
and yet with that must provide for family
consisting Of a mother and four children for
\ whole day. We would not buy bakers
bread at si1pence loaf-very small oaves.
too. never weighing over pound. however
moist. or however adu,erated with corn. po,a-
toes, or buckwheat. which are harmless-or
with plaster of Paris, lime alum. suIphate Of
zinc, ground bones. and we don't know how
many other deleterious substances. No, we
wouldn't buy bakers bread with one dime.
would we buy fine -four a, six or seven cents
pound, else some OF the children would 90
hungry. We might buy corn meal and make
cheap cake. or pot Of mush. or a larger
pot of porridg-, or we might buy two pounds
of homminy. and then our dime would feed
the family one full meal but to this latter
article there is one objection. Where is the
fuel TO come from to cook this mess for
corn more than any other grain requires cook
ing to ~Aate i. palatsble and wholesome. Two,
three, or tour hours vs -1~~ boiling is not too
much Our dime will not coon, , we'll az
buy the corn meal or homminy. What then,
Potatoes Let US see. They require least
cooking. but they cost with all their water
and they are more than half water two cents
and a half a pound at retail
Then they are no, cheap food after all. 1t
will not do 10 spend dime for potatoes.
What then? 1t is no easy study 10 learn
how to produce the most human food for
dime to ascertain how many hungry mouths
L.. "a .i,,=
istied ior one dime. l. is study too much
neglected. 1t should be taught in all Public
schools Certainly in all Charity. Industrial
and Ragged School>--where children fed
As we'll AS tan ,ht. What better wisdom could
we teach them than how to procure Ihe most
food for dime? Il is a little coin. but can
be made To expand. Il would be real charity
genuine charity practical charity - to
teach such scholars economy in food not how
20 eat less. TO live upon less-f,r Heaven
knowns, some Of tnem live upon little enough
now--but TO teach them what to buy. in cas-.
of emergency, with little coin, only one dime
We have lately learned tha, lesson. and We
will teach it to you. We learned it Of
woman-thst is the practical operation Of il
though she says she learned i. of US. from
something she read about economiziny food in
The Tribune.
Il had said she, Zone dav last week
only dime in the world, and that was to
feed me and my four children all day. for |
would not ask for credi,and could not borrow.
and | did not go hungry. fed myself and
family with one dime
How 80
"Oh. that was not all. l bouga. fuel too
What F! with one dime o.
Yes, with one dime. | bought two cents
worth of coke, because that is cheaper than
ccal. and because could kindle il with piece
of paper in my little furnace with two or three
little bits Of charcoal that some careless bov
had dropped in the street Just in my path.
With three cents bought a scraggy piece OF
salt pork. half fat and half leAa There
might have been half pound of 1.-THE man
did not weigh it Now halt nv money was
gone. and the show for breakfast dinner, and
supper. were certainly very poor one. With
the rest Of my dime | bought four cents
worth of white beans. By the by. got these
at night. and soaked them in tepid wafer on
neighbor's stove till :morning. l had one
cent left. ! bought one cents worth of corn
meal. and the grocery man gave me . red
pepper pod
What was that for a''
WAIT little; you shall know. Ofall things
pepper and onions are appreciated by the poor
in winter. because they help to keep them
warm. With my meal l made three dump
lings. and these, with the little pork and the
pepper pod. put into the po: with the beans
aui plenty of water. (for the pork was sstyl
and boiled the whole two hours /: and then
we had breakfast, for it was time for the chill
/ dren to go 10 school. We ate one of the
dumplings, aud each had plate Of the soup
for breakfast. and very good breakfast i.
was.
/ Il kept the pot boiling IS long as nv