American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-11-09
How to Live Cheaply.

A puZzling problem, particularly in cit
les, and with Americans, who are n dys-
peptic and often an impecunious race, is
how to live cheaplv and according to the
laws of health. This problem has been
discussed ever since the Oldest of us can
remember. but recently with much more
interest and intelligence. The health
Journals, the newspapers. and the doctors
have all shared in the discussion, and as
result, if news paragraph floating across
the great sea of journalism is trustworthy
information, this people are gradually
growing wiser, healthier, and happier,
and consequently much lOnger-lived. But
Mr.. Dio Lewis has discovered diet so
cheap as to astonish even John Chinaman,
who subsists on three cents per diem, and
which he states is conducive to the high
est state of beatitude and the EXTREMIST
limit of longevity.
We venture to give DIR. Lewis formula
and quarter cents. He began on Sum
day by breakfast of hulled corn, with
little milk; cost, three cents. The same
for dinner, and no supper, the entire food
| for the day costing six cents. Monday
breakfast, two cents worth of oatmeal, in
the form of porridge, with one cents
worth of milk: for dinner, two cents
worth of whole wheat, boiled, with one
cents worth of milk. Food for Monday,
six cents. Tuesday breakfast, two cents
worth of beans. with half cents worth
of vinegar for dinner, one 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, hominy made of
Southern corn, two cents worth. with
one cents worth of syrup. For dinner,
a beef stew, the meat OF which cost two
cents, quarter of a cents worth of
sauce and cents worth of hominy.
no oh nf "a
| explained by Mr.. Lewis, with the remark
| ''that from an OK weighing 500 pounds
net, you can purchase certain parts weigh
ing about 100 pounds for three cents per
pound.'' Wednesdays meal cost him
eight and a quarter cents. Thursday
costing two and a 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. Fridays breakfast, Southern
hulled corn and milk. costing three cents.
| On Sunday he grew luxurious, and in
dulged in such extravagances that only
his own language can describe the feast to
| which he sat down:
''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 al
least would sink all moral restraints and give
d for what saturday
| began with one cents worth of oatmeal por-
| ridge with teaspoonful of sugar, worth quar-
ter of a cent; then followed cents worth Of
| cracked wheat, with half a cents worth of milk
and one cents worth of rye and Indian bread
For dinner 1 ate half of small lobster which
| cost three cents, and one cents worth of coarst
bread and one cents worth of hominy salad
and closed with two cents worth of cracked
| wheat and milk. Cost of the day S food, lively,
and thrce-quarter cents.'
We submit DIR. Lewis statement with
ont any comment, and refrain from any
advice based upon it. If any of oul
young friends are DESTROYS of initiating
him they can do so. Ifrigidly adhered to
the system would doubtless be as protita
BILE as .'going Vest or engaging in sheer
culture. He has grown healthy from fol
lowing it himself. and wealthy from teach
inc ii TO others.-Foruey's Press