Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1872-10-18
DIR. RIO LEWIS DIET.
A Remarkable Illustration OF How
Cheaply One Can Live.

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lutte economy of living, by those, who
are disposed to try, We cite the follow
ing inventory of a weeks diet, and its
cost, from the actual experience of DIR.
Rio Lewis, awell known physician and
writer, living in Massachusetts,: zssf
sIt is now Saturday afternoon, and
| I will tell you in confidence little of
my personal private experience during
| the past week. 80 =! t 80
| son Sunday morning last I thonght
| | would try for week the experiment
of living cheaply: Sunday breakfast,
hulled Southern corn, with a little
milk. My breakfast cost three cents.
/ took exactly the same thing for din
ner. Food for the day, six cents. i
never take an supper. Monday break
fast, two cents worth Of oatmeal, in the
form of porridge, with one cents worth
of milk. For dinner, cents worth Of
whole wheat, boiled, with one cents
worth of milk. Food fer Monday, six
cents. Tuesday breakfast, two cents
worth of beans, with half q cents worth
of vinegar. For dinner, ones quart of
rich, bean porridge, worth one cent,
with four slices of coarse bread, worth
two CENTS Food for Tuesday, FIVE and
a half cents. Wednesday breakfast,
| haps the best Of an food Tor IaDUrfng
men in hot weather, two cents worth,
with one cents worth of syrup. For
dinner, splendid beef stew, the meat
of which cost two cents. A little ex-
travagant you see. But, then, you
know, "a short life and merry one
Perhaps you don't believe that the meat
was purchased for two cents? But it
was, though. The fact is, that from
an OK weighing eight hundred pounds
nett, you can purchase certain parts
weighing about one hundred pounds,
for three cents per pound. TwO-thirds
| of a pound make more stew than /
could eat. There was really enough
for two of us. But, then, you know
how careless and reckless the Ameri-
cans are inregard to our table expenses,
always getting twice as much as We
need. | must not forget to say that
these coarse, cheap portions of the an
imal are the best for stew. The very
genius of waste seems to have taken
possession of me on that fatal day. I
poured into my stew all at once, slap
dash, quarter of cents worth of
Leicestershire sauce, and as if to show
that it never rains, butit pours, clos
ed that gluttonous scene by devouring
a cents worth of hominy pudding
Food for Wednesday, eight and quar-
ter cents. The gross excess of We'd
nesday led to very moderate
"Thursday breakfast, which consist
ed of oatmeal porridge and milk, cost
ing about two and half cents. For
dinner, cracked wheat and baked beans,
two cents worth of each, milk, one
cents worth. Food for Thursday cost
seven and half cents.
"Friday breakfast, Southern hulled
corn and milk, costing three cents
For dinner, another Of those gormand
surfeits which SO disgraced the history
of Wednesday. Expenses for the day
eight and quarter cents. lad
"This morning when | went to the
table, [ said to myself, Whats the use
of this economy?' And / made up my
mind that for this day at least I would
sink all moral restraints and give up
the reigns to appetite. have no apol--
ogy or defense for what followed.
Saturday breakfast, began with
one cents worth of oatmeal porridge,
with a teaspoonful of sugar, worth a
quarter of cent; then followed a cents
worth Of cracked wheat, with half a
cents worth of milk then the break
fast closed with two cents worth of
milk, and one cents worth of rye and
Indian bread. For dinner, i ate half
of small lobster, which cost three
cents, and one cents worth of coarse
bread, and one cents worth of hominy
salad, and closed with two cents worth
of cracked wheat and milk. Cost Of
the days food, twelve and three-quar-
ter cents. In all these statements only
the cost of material is given.
"Cost for the week JTy. .fous o'sd q
quarter cents. H. -
4 "Of course I don't pretend that sves
rybody can live in this luxurious way.
II isn't everybody who can afford it.