The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-11-10
DINNERS FOR 10 CENTS.
What Good Miss COrsOn's Recipe
Book for Free Distribution Has
DOne-An Immense Demand
for Ii and Grateful Let
ters BY the Dozen.

New York World.
A World reporter called yesterday up
on Miss Juliet CorsOn TO talk with her
about her 10 cent dinners, which the San
the other day said were only calculated
to act in the human stomach like cock
tails and to make the people hungrIer
who ate them. Miss Corson's cooking
school occupies clean looking old
Knickerbocker mansion at No. 8 st.
Marks place. The reporters ring at the
pondeous bell was promptly answered
and he was ushered politely into pair
Of tidy reception rooms, through all the
old-fashioned and lofty space Of which
fOated the subtle and sweet smell OF
Things s-cooking. The reporter wonder
ed if IT was one of the cheap dinners
whose odor was so rich, or trIfing din
ner. the bare essences OF which could per-
meate these vast spaces, rolling upward
past the gratified nose Of the observer in
TO the deep convolutions Of the remote
mouldings. rs he fingered gratlhed Miss
COrsOn came IN.
you have come to see me-" she said,
with smile, "about my cheap dinners
which the SnR calls sppetizers. Am /
,sn and hungry"
Miss Corson is robust, well-cOndItioned
woman, and the reporter at once NJ swer-
ed, NO, madam you are lot lean, though
| should think these odorS would make
you hungry. They do me"
Il am not hungry" she said simply,
"for have just finished my Tuesdays
dinner OF baked beans, 1t may be al
interesting point for you that have this
morning put my household and myself
in training on the fare which our esteem
ed contemporary, the Sun, so feelingly
reprobates. Filteen-cent dinners will be
the order of the day for the coming
week. At its expiration 1 trust you wi l
head World medical expedition to ex-
anime into our corporal condition"
"Youc dinner to-day, Miss Corson, is
the one especially attacked by the Sun, is
il not, rs being in sufficient to satisfy six
people?'
eyes, and l think the S,m picks out
this DAYS bill Of fare because it looks the
most meagre. Now, first, my bill does
not provide tor six adults; | say that in
the preface OF my book; but for family
- six, father and mother and children.
For breakfast | give broth and bread Tor
10 cents. That seems very little, but the
d lint is have my broth saved over
f-Um Yesterdays dinner, which included
boiled beef and so nearly the whole OF
my estimate msy go Tor bread Notice
mere that / always save water in which |
boil nests and fsrinaceous matters; that
is the way anybody gets get soup and
broth, and that is the way l get them.
For dinner baked beans. The Sun eXsg-
,rra:es when it says that 1 give
the whole cost of the dlnner-lO cents
for the beans. | am not so simple.
buv n pint of dried beans for cents, u
piece OF salt pork for between 3 and 4
cents, aud pepper and salt and table
| spoonful of mOlssses tor the remainder
| This makes goOd-Sized dish, and it is u
iish full of nourishment, Us is every one
IN my weeks bill"
"There will be plenty of besns fol-
everybody The piece OF pork will be
small, but 1t will be enough Tor the faith,
er and mother. There is many poor
family where all the meat that is bought
| Does 10 the man; he eats it TO sustain him
| IN mis- hard work. and the rest go with,
out. Notice | save the wster IN which
the beans are boiled for broth for an
other morning. 1t is plainly enough
| besn-soup, and cannot Afford 10 throw
away anything so nutritious Then tol
supper, | give macaronl and cheese
| which ia also full of nutrition. This cost:
- cents, and for 81 cents l have given
three meals which actually satisfy hunger
and furnish enough nutritious food for
the number OF people l have said.
have proved it in the case of my own
family and myself, and | have The
testimony of hundreds OF poor people
who have tried it and not found 1t t
fall
"The bill is varied every day, l pre-,
sumo"
Certainly. Monday there is boiled
rice aud milk for breakfast, Corued beet
and cabbage for dinner and peas boiled
in stock for supper. That days food
costs 80 cents. Wednesday there i:
toasted bread and scaded milk for
breakfast. stewed tripe tor dinner snG
polenta tor supper. Thursday, rice pana
ds for breakfast, sal pot-au-leu for din
ner and lentils stewed in stock for sup
per. Friday, broth and bread for break
fast, mutton and turnips for dinner, snC
barley boiled in broth for supper Sat
urdav, mutton broth and bread for break
fast. beef and pot dOes for dinner anC
beans boiled in broth for supper Sun
dsy'st-re costs I'll cents and include:
breakfast Of cocoa, bread and fried lentils
dinner Of bean broth, haslet stew arC
suet roly-poy pudding, and supper 0
cheese Iuddlng For the week tina
makes total expense of 81 53, sn(
leaves q bslance on my estimate o.
81 cents for extra bread, milk and but
ter
How came you TO get out your TOOL
on cheap cooking"
The idea came into my head at tn
time of the labor strikes last July. l wa
drcadfully afra d there would be grea
riot in this city, and as the leaders of al
the strikes declared that their action wa
taken only because they could not sup
port their families upon the wages re
ceived by them, l determined to intro
duce them to the means Of living on the
least possible amount of money. finish
ed my book and wrote letter to tht
World offering to supply to the Com
missioners of Charities and Correction
the Society for Improving the Condition
/ Of the Poor and ether benevolent socie,
ties stamped tilie pages authorizing the
publication by them OF $4,000 copies OF s