Wilmington journal., 1876-01-07

A Chicago correspondent tells an in
terestlng story of married ma in th,,t
city by the lake, who, from ei,joyIng 1
good salary on a newspaper, Was drIv,
en- by stress of hard times aud baG
luck to work as a painter, earning Oh
an average of ten dollars week. We
give the story a. it i. related. The
economists wife did the talking
at the dinner, to which her
husband had invited the writer. She
SAID :
"Well, ynn see, Ned came home and
told ma ten dollars was the most he
could get; 1t WAS forty at Washington.
aud we talked the m tier over, and
made up our minds it would do some
how-do a good deal better than living
off our friends or getting in debit
wish | comld make all young Innrri ii
people fear that awful thing-DEBr !
So came here and hired these two
rooms. which cost us 81 So week.
The sleeping room is large enough for
our be- and stow away few things
suu9ly, while the chi i2ren sleep on the
sofa there Its II bed lounge. and opens
out at night. We havn't but that one
stove of course, and twenty five bush-
els of cork, which costs us So delivered.
with care lasts us two mouths, while
we get all the shavings aud kindleing
we want at the cooper-shops for carry
lug them away. Kerosene costs only
sixteen cents gallon, and lasts n
month By taking ten pounds of
hooks, even when pork is so high. we
get them at four cents. and they make
tn'ee or four nice meals, day or two
apart, and We have a refrigerator i'll
the hall for keeping perlshable food.
Ned found where we could get nice pic
cts of meat, beef, at five cents pound,
if we take tn pounds. We buy It for
'mince meat, of course; but out of
that amount we get stenk or two
we have to pound it some to make 1t
tender i-nnd sometimes we have what
the Germaus cali a hamburger steak
that Is the meat chopped fine like
sausage, favored dellcasely with on
ions, and broiIed rapidly; besides
stews, boils, and plenty of hash, which
isn't very bad when it's clean and
cooked nicely. Sometimes [ va y the
mince-meat and boil d few pounds,
adding little pork to give it delicacy
and flavor; boil it all day until it is
almost jelhed. Then season it with
little butter, pepper, salt, AID just
drop of Halford; set it away in cloth
bag over night, and in the morning
WE have some of the incest beef
cheese" you ever tasted"
Isampled the beef cheese and
even alter hearty meal its delicacy
substantiated the statement.
Sometimes, when we were very
short of money, Neil resortei to the
little
of buying five cents worth of good
meat for his cat. We haven't a cat,
bat we've got four hungry mouths,
and the pound, or pound and half of
meat we got that way, did us a great
deal of good, especially if We were a
little hungry for meat. You see, if
the butcher had known it was for our
own use, it would have only bought
half pound. But the cat legend al
ways brings good piece. Sometimes
we get 80
a. to have chickens. and even turkey,
but we h I'VE to watch the market for
these. Just after Thanksgiving [
b ought eight chickens aud d nice tur
kew for one dollar down Oh Market
street. It was Saturday evening; the
dealer had ten tons on hand, and 1t
had begun to rain; but it showed be
fore morning, and [ had four dollars
OF choice food i'll the house. Didn't
we poor people go for those chick Us,
though We make our own bread
and what pastry we can afford to in
duige in. Two barrels of good winter
wheat -four, which cost delivered
seven dollars per barrel, last us just
Oue year. We don't use either tea or
coffee, and our milk here costs us only
twenty one cents week, as Il pint Il
day answers nicely.
L saw that the culinary department
was successfully mangaged, but beg
ged to know how many hundred dol
lars year they were obliged to ex-
pend for clothing
Chow many hundred dollars My
sakes alive! We haven't spent one
hundred III two years !"
S"eirg that [ looked perplexed, she
looked at Ned AS much as to say,
"ShalI ?" and Ned looked ut her as
if to say, "Do as you like" she did
as she liked, as women generally do.
"Well, I kept Ned pretty well
patched up for year or more, made
over his and my own very old clothes
for the children, and then," laughing
at Ned. "we resolved ON
'sTRATEGY.
owe knew that there were thou
sands of people in a city like this, who,
if rightly approached, and given as
surance that they were not to be bum
bugged, had, and we're more than vii
ling to give the kind of assistance we
needed. So Ned went down 10 the
Tribune Office and had ins 'ried under
the head of miscellaneous, last jury.
('Sunday, June 90 interrupted Ned,
who, from habit, is exact about dates
and figures,D this advertisement.
which cost us just eighty cents.''
Here Mrs. Ned brought the slip
which had been clipped from the
Tribune, and which l give as an evi-
dence of the truthfulness of tho mar
rative:
YyTA IT +: ID. by HAHH-wORKING,
,e.tieman. Ketiplet will confer with donor
.howing ned and responsibility. Address P,
rs, Tribune Office.
Eve got all manner of answers to
our advertisement, some in a witty
vein asking Us whether we could loan
little money at ten per cent. month,
ihqulring whether we weren't sorry
Inab our HHCeSlOTS ldO NJuFlSt,
whether we owned the German Ma
tloual Bank, and whether we couldn't
get better dodge than that. There
was just one hopeful answer, that
from u man who couldn't write our
lang uage correctly, and who signed
himself evidently with much labor,
your unknown friend, -, profess
sor of music Well Ned, called on
him. He was little Dane, aid after
n, had told him who we were, and
how we were trying TO get along, with
the chirfnpy little vile he made mp
such q bundle that Ned could hardly
get home with it. There was little
of everything in that bundle, and q
a great pile of serviceable things alto
gether. With what he got, and what
the little professor has actually forced
upon us since, We are clothed comfort
ably, all of US, and are well provided
for the winter"