The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-01-02
Home and Happiness on Ten Dollars q
Week.

A Chicago correspondent of the Louisvill
Corier-JOurndL tells an interesting story OF
married man in the city by the lake. who
from enjoying good salary on newspaper
was driven by stress of hard times and bat
luck to work as painter, earning on an aver
age ten dollars a week. We are not sure tina
some fiction has not been mixed with fact
but we give the story as it is related. Thu
economists wife did the talking at dinner to
which her husband had invited the writer
| She said:
swell, you see, Ned came home and told
me $40 was the most he could get; it was $40
at Washington; and we talked the matter over
and made up our minds it would do somehoS
do good deal better than living of our
friends or getting in debit wish I could
make all young married people fear that awful
thing, debt so l came here and hired these
two rooms, which cost us 81 SO week. The
sleepipg room is large enough for our bed,
and stow away q few things snugly, while the
children sleep on the sofa there. 1t is bed
lounge, and opens out at night We have mt
but that one stove, of course, and twenty five
bushels of coke, which costs US 50 delivered,
with care lasts US two months; while we get
all the shavings and kindlipgs we want at The
cooper-shops for carrying them away.
"Kel osene costs only sixteen cents a gallon,
and lasts month. BY taking ten pounds it
hacks, even when pork is SO high, We get
them at four cents, and they make three or
four nice meals, q day or two apart, and We
have refrigerator in the hall for keeping
perishable goods. Ned found where he could
get nice pieces of meat, beef, at five cents a
pound, if We take ten pounds. We but it for
mince- meat of course: but out of that
amount we get steak or two-we have to
pound it some to make it tender and some
times we have what the Germans call a Ham
burger steak, that is, the meat chopped fine,
like sausage. favored deicately with onions.
and broiled rapidly; besides 'stews, 'boils,'
and plenty of hash which isn't very bad
when it's clean and cooked nicely.
Sometimes vary the 'mince meat and
boil few pounds adding little pork to give
it delicacy and flavor; boil it all day until it
is almost jellied. Then | season it with lit
tie butter, pepper, salt, and 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.
l sampled the "oeef cheese" and even
after hearty meal lis delicacy substantaled
the statement.
Sometimes, when we were very short OF
money, Ned resorted to the little fiction OF
buying five cents worth Of good meat for his
Cat. We haven't cat, but we've got four
nuASiy AoubAAS, duu tAO pSAAu. " pONAu
and half Of meat We got that way did US a
great deal Of good, esp cialy if we were a
little hungry for meat. You see, if that but
cher had known it WAS for our own USE it
would have only bought half pound. But
the cat legend always brings a good piece.
Sometimes we get SO reckless as to have
chickens, and even turkey, but we have to
watch the market for these.
Just after Thanksgiving 1 bought eight
chickens and nice turkey for one dolia,
down on Market street. 1t was Saturday
evening the dealer had ten tons on hands,
aud 1t had begun to ram; but it showed be-
fore morning. and had four dollars worth OF
choice food In the house. Didn't we poor
people 60 for those chickens though We
make our own bread, and what pastry We can
afford to indulge in. Two barrels of good
winter -four, which cost, delivered, 81 per
barrel, last US just one year. We don't use
either tea or coffee, and our milk here costs
us only twenty-one cents week, as pint a
day answers nicely"