Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1863-01-29
ADVICE TO A POOR MAN.

who should seriously discuss the simpl
rules Of economy. 1t is thought NEAR
Asian not troubled in this way.
continue the series of articles unde
this heading.
From "HoN to Live"
ONE DIME.-'Tis a little sunni
often given for drink or cigar-'d
soon burned out and wasted. II take
ten dimes 10 make dollar, and dol
lar is a common price for a single meal
Il is soon eaten-its effects are not last
ing, except when it produces dyspep
sia. and then it often costs hundred
dimes to purchase medicine that does
not cure the disease.
To those who never dine for less than
a dollar, how unsatisfactory would be a
dinner for dimel Reader. have you
ever reflected how many entire families
in this city, where food is so 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 do? What il eve ~
subscriber to the "Weekly Tribune"
should give one dime, with his sub
scription, to be applied to the necessi-
ties of the needy and deserving poor
in this city-did you ever consider what
a sum it would be? Look at it-175.-
600 subscribers, at one dime each, is
S17.5OOl What If il we're applied TO
purchase bread, say ut FIVE cents loaf!
1t would buy $500. 900 loaves of bread
What if we should announce that such
a quantity OF bread was about 10 be
given to the poor. in this ETHYL The
whole land would rejoice. How much
can be done with one dimel
WHAT ONE DINE PURcHAsED.-Let
us see what we would do with it if we
had but one--only one dime in the
world--and yet with that must provide
for family consisting Of mother and
four children for a whole day. We
would not buy bakers bread at sixpense
losf--very small loaves. too, never
weighing over a pound. however moist
or however dulteralcd with corn. po-
tatoes, or buck Wheat. which are harm
lessor with plaster OF Paris, lime,
alum, sui phale OF zinc, ground bones.
and we do not know how many other
deleterious substances. No, we would
not buy bakers bread with our dime,
nor would we buy fine -four at six or
seven cents pound, else some OF the
children would go hungry. We might
buy corn meal and make a cheap cake.
or a pot Of mush. or large pot OF por-
ridge, or we might buy two pounds OF
hominy, and then our dime would feed
the family one full meal; but 10 this
latter article there is one objection
Where is the fuel to come from 10 cook
this mess? for corn, more than any
other grain, requires cooking TO make
it palatable and wholesome. Two,
three, or even four hours OF slow boil
ing is not too much. Our dime will
not cook as well as buy the corn mea
or homony. What then? PotatOesl--
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 pound at retail.
Then they are not cheap food after
all 1t will not do to spend our dime
for potatoes.
What then? 1t is no easy study to
learn how TO procure the most human
food for dime; to ascertain how many
hungry mouths may be fed-how many
empty stomachs satisfied, for one dime.
1t is a study too much neglected. 1t
should be taught in all public schools
Certainly in all charity, industrial, and
ragged schools, where children are fed
as well as taught. What better wis
dom could you teach them than how to
procure the most food for a dime? II
is little coin. but can be made to ex
pand. 1t would be real charity-gen-
uine charity practical charity--to teach
such scholars economy in food; not how
to eat less, to live upon less--for Heaven
knows some OF them live upon little
enough now--but to teach them what
to buy. in case Of emergency. with a
little coin--only one dime. We have
lately learned that lesson. and we will
teach il to you. We learned it Of a
woman--that is, the practical operation
of Though she says she learned it Of
as, from something she read about
economising food. in the Tribune.
How THE Poor WOMAN MANAGED =
s'I had" said she. "one day last week,
only one dime in the world, and that
was to feed me and my four children
all day; for would not borrow. and
never did beg. l did live through the
day, and | did not ge hungry, fed
myself and family with one dime"
How"
"Oh, that was not all. I bought fu,
el, too"
"What, with one dime?"
eyes, with one dimel l bought two
cents worth of coke, because that J:
cheaper than coal. and because / could
kindle it with piece of paper in mN
little furnace. with two or three littl'
bits of charcoal that some careless boy
had dropped in the street just in my
path. With three cents l bought {
scraggy piece OF salt pork. half fat anc
half lean. There might have been hal
a pound OF 1.-THE man did not weigl
it. Now half my money was gone, an'
the show for breakfast, dinner. and sup
per was certainly very poor one =
With the rest Of my dime bought fou
cents worth Of white beans Blythe