The Osceola times., 1883-02-10
TWO DOLLARS A MONTH.
A Gentleman who has Struck tho Dead
Level OF Economy.

So great an interest has been awaken
cd by your paper on the subject of cheap
living that feel satisfied you will permit
me 10 impart some very valuable infor-
nation ON how TO economize in house
hold expenses. Your correspondent
Mr.. Long, means we'll and has an honest
economical ambition, but he is very far
from the goal of absolute economy in
this matter. He has not reduced the
thing to its truo minimum. AS we are
all working to the same end trust that
my experiences, obtained at the cost of
much study and perseverance, win throw
some light on the true solution of this
problem.
am young man (my age is twenty
six have been married two years, and
like our friend Long am blessed with a
helpmate who has joined me heartily in
all my cndeavors to get rid of the dread
full incidents of outdoor household ex-
pensc. We are both of US accustomed to
the best society, and have 10 dress gen.
toelly, If not cxpensivcly. We 90 out a
great deal, and you win understand have
TO make respectable appearance. The
problem was early presented to us in our
married career in this shapc-Iiow shall
we live and whercwithal shall We be
clothed?
My salary was SIS week, and soon
found that the ordinary butchers and
grocers' bills would consume the whole
of IL. When this awful fact stared US in
face you can imagine our dislnay. made
pretty much every experiment that Mr..
Long made, but ] found that when |
cheapened tho diet it became unwhole-
some. Niscoral meats were simply abb
horrcnt TO Mollie, and could not, under
the lash of economy, bring myself to the
work, noble and necessary rs it is, of CO.
ing about among the slaughtef-housos
buying up the intestinal cuts. gave my
davs and nights to the solution of this
difficulty, and victory at last crowned my
efforts.
You " i'll be astonisheG when | explain
10 you how beautiful snd simple was the
remedy. But then all true remedies and
all great inveniions-are they not always
beautiful and simple?
/ succeeded in 30 reducing my living
expenses that they amounted to but 81 q
month, and we secured health and hap
piness at the same time.
How did | do it?
Let me warn YOU that unless your
search for cheap living is a deepand sim
ccre one; Unless you have a profund, in
cradicablc conviction that economy is
the chief object of existence, it is no use
following me.
believe that my discovery win bring
ioy and peace TO thousands, but TO win
the FIGHT as / have won it they must be
actuated by serious purpose and be pre-
pared 10 make everything else IN life
bend TO the one purpose.
discovered in happy moment that
the sweet grass es of tie field were the
real source of the vitality and strength
of the OK. | said 10 Molic when she
wanted six pairs of gloves in one week;
my dear, either we must stop eating
or cut society"
She said; "if we could only stop eat
inc, darling"
1--WE can do that next best thing, love-"
| rcjoined. "Wc have got 10 live 50 rs to
leave n margin for gloves and things"
"ff we only could,' she murmured.
ave can" said resolntcly. Can you
take the bull by the horns%
20, | can't live ON horn steaks, if that
Is what you mcan,' she softly but firmly
answered.
~ don't mean anything of the sort.
spoke metaph0rically. Can you overcome
your preiudices and live on the sweetest,
most nutriive food, TO accomplish gloves
an! retain our place in society"
"Yes," she answered, 81 can. What
kind of food is it,"
"lIay," replied.
At first she was incrodulous. But when
she came to look at il seriously she con-
sentcd with many doubts TO make the
experiment.
Now let me say here that no frivolous
or sensual person will ever be able
TO carry out this noble economy. Its
success depends first on the reason Of the
expcrimentcr Hay is absolutely the
most inexpensive food in the market, nut
there is an ignorant human prejudice
against it. | say ignorant, because men
do not know that the sweet clover con-
tains sugar, gum, starch and albumcn.
When we went into this trial we had
to fight even our own natures; bat we
triumphed. | bought my hay at fifty cents
a hundred weight. found by experience
that clover and timothy was the best. as
it contained the largest amount Of albu-
minoids. We made hay tea, hay broth
we boiled it down 10 thick consistency
and made hay jelly. We picked out the
dandelions and roasted it, and made
coffee.
Al first there was a great deal of waste
but we soon learned how to economize
the stems. When we had perfected our
system found that 400 weight of of hay
would last with care Just month.
IL is necessary 10 warn beginners with
the hay diet To be careful in selecting
their hay. II is also well t. say that at
first there will be some emaciation and
muscular weakness, but the system soon
adapts itself to the food. 1t is astonish-
ing what variety of dishes can be made
out Of this simple article. For example
here is Mollie's bill for last Sunday
MENU.
PURGE Of Hay, AL Naturcl.
Irish stew, In Furzc.
Haricot of Clover.
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