Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-12-23
Home and Happiness on Ton Dollars
n Week.

Chicago correspondent OF the Louisville
Courier Journal tells an interesting story of a
married man in the city by the lake, who, from
enjoying a good salary on newspaper was
driven by stress OF hard times and bad luck to
work as a painter, earning on an average $40
week. We are not sure that aonle fiction has
not been mixed with fact, but we give the story
RS it is related Tho economists wife did the
talking at dinner to which her husband had
invited the writer She said
"Weil, you see, Ned came home and told me
5l0 was the most he could get it was $40 at
Washington and we talked the matter over and
made mp onr minds it would do somehow-do a
good deal better than living of our friends or
getting in debit wish could make all young
married people fear that awful thing. debt SO
came here and hired these two rooms, which
cost uB S15O a week. The sleeping room is
| large enough for our bed, and stow away few
things snugly, while the children sleep on the
sofa there. 1t is a bed-lounge, and opens out at
night. We haven't but that one stove, of
course, and twenty-five bushels OF coke, which
costs lis SO delivered, with care lasts us two
months while we get all the shavngs and
| kindngs we want at the cooper-shops for car
rying them away. Kerosene costs only 10 cents
a gallon, and lasts month. by taking ten
| pounds of hacks even when pork is 30 high,
we get them at cents, and they make three oil
/ four nice meals. day or two apart, and we have
a refrigerator in the hall for keeping perishable
| food. Ned found where he could get nice pieces
| of meat beef, at five cents pound, il We take
ten pounds. We buy it for mince-meat,' oi
| course ; but out of that amount we get a steal
| or two--we have to pound it some to make i
i tender and sometimes we have what tho Ger
| mans call a Hamburger steak, that is, the mea
chopped fine like sausage Favored delicatel.
with onions, and broiled rapidly besides 'stews,
| boils, and plenty Of hash, which isn't yer.
bad when it's clean and cooked nicely. Some
times l vary the mince-meat and boil a few
pounds, adding little pork to give it delicac.
and flavor boil it all day until it is almost jel
lied. Then season it with little butter, pep
per, salt and jus drop OF Halford ; set
away in cloth bag over night, and in the morn
ing we have some OF the incest beef cheese
You ever tasted.
/ sampled the beef cheese" and even afte
a hearty meal its delicacy substantiated tn
statement
"Sometimes when we were very short o
money, Ned resorted to the little fiction Of buy
ing fivecents' worth of good me at for his cat. w
haven't a cat, but we've got four hungr
mouths, and the pound, or pound and a.half O
, meat we got that way did rs great deal Q
good, especially il we were a little hungry fo
meat. You see, il that butcher had known
) was for our own use, it would have only bougl
half pound. But the cat legend always bring
: good piece. Sometimes we get so reckless
to have chickens, and even turkey, but we hay
to watch the market for these. just aftt
r Thanksgiving ! bonght eight chickens and
nice turkey for one dollar down on Mark
street. 1t was Saturday evening the deal
had ten tons on hands, and it had begun
| rain but it showed before morning, and ha
four dollars worth OF choice food i'll the hous
Didn't we poor people go for those CHECKER
; though We make our own bread, and VIII
: pastry we can afford to indulge i'll. Two ba
; rels Of good winter flour which cost, delivere
o 81 per barrel last us just one year. We dol
/, use either tea or coffee, and our milk here cos
us only twenty-one cents week, as pint
e day answers nicely"