New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-12-26

of that went for SHOES for Emmy. The month
bafore my hands weren't % stiff and helped her
good deal so we earned $28 70. and she got Two
remnants for 81 so at Ehrich's and l made'her
dress that looks very well. But she's nothing but
patchwork underneath. and Pm the same. only
worse The coal Is the trouble BY the scutte IL
costs SO much AMI I try to get ahead and have
quarter of ton at once for there arc places here 70
keep coal. but I mover can. II 1t weren't Tor
Emmy's missing me. Ii would be better Tor me 10
die for Pm use, you see. and times get no better
but worse. But l can't, and We must get along
somehow. Lord help us ALL"
"How could IL cents worth OF coal do Weeks
cookngr
at couldn't 1t didn't I've a little oil stove
that just bols the KETTLE and tea ard bread ana
butter what we have mostly. A gallon OF OIL
goes long way, and cat cook small things over
it. too. The washing takes coal. and you see must
have soap and all that. don't SEQ how we could
spend less I've learned to manage even with
what we get now. but there's woman next door
that know better than ybOdy In this house. LOT
here it always seemed to me best to keep quite 10
myself for many reasons, but the chief that I'm
always hoping tor change and chance for Emmy
But this woman is nice German woman that Tell
on The ice and sprained her ankle last winter anu
we saw TO her wei: we could till she got oester
She ont mind telling how she manages. hut shes
in the top of the house She's widow and every
body dead belonging to her.
This house was grade below the Last in cleanl-
ness and children swarmed on stairs and in hall.
Up to the fourth floor back ten-feet square ROOM
with one window. where in spite OF defective
sing in che hall the odor from which seemed to
penetrate and saturate everything. spotless cleann
ness was the expression of every inch OF space.
Syy notfr tho old woman said. when she under
stood my dosirs. IL tells you ncne an more too.
for down de stairs buy every day for the girl that
is sick and goes eat no more. IL quick were @s
girl could save much. but have sixty-hve year
How shall be quick earn forty-hve. City cents
sometime. but forty-fve for days work when 20 as
can. An so for week dat is 81 70; l can $40
mon tn; sometimes S12, and pays $3 for this ROOM
To eat will buy tea and bread-rye, for dat is
stronger ms your fine wheat. Tea is American. but
will not beer any mors. since l sec how women
drinks 1t and de- kinder and 1t not like our beer but
more tlpsy. So makes tea. and de cheese and de
wurst 10 all not much 1t il do coal that IL most
Vat / will eat. he cost not 30 more 40 90 cents
semstimes CO. but eat not ever all l could, Tor l
mast he warm q little and dere is light and to
wash, and some shoe 1t is bad to be big as l. for
shoe not last But loaf of bread cents. do all
dag and some ia next and cheese pound Is 10, II
have him. aud wurst Is Is. for sometime he is beet,
aud pound stay q week If not greedy. Tea will
be 80 osnts but he is good q month. and sugar q
pound-two pound sometime. but butter no. and
milk q cent for Sunday. so 1 live. and l beg not.
Can moref thank the good God only that there
is no more Hans or Lisa or any to be hungry with
me. 1t Is good they CO."
Sand you buy for some one else 7"
ooh ia. but she will die soon and care not. It is
de kinder that care. Two and one six aud one
eitht and cannot earn. She sew all day On
machine. 1t 10 babies clOsks-so ylte and NICE In
two days she will make dree, for 500. dere Is two
liriugs and cape and cuf is all scailop, and she
must stitch FIRST and then bind and hem. ALI is
hem. all over inside, so nice. and she make dem 80
nice But So a dozen is all, aud 1t is week for
niue aud 80 she get not more as 20 because she Is
sick and must stop. Aud there is the grandfather
that DID, and de kinder and she and all must i've
Rent ia So 80. dat know, and pay tor her DIS
week ST. so for bread and tea and potatoes ana some
milk aud molasses for dc kinder on bread and
butter little. and milk, but not meat 1t is de
arandyater eat too much, but how shall one help
,ts DE rest IL clothes for ALL bnt dere is no shoe
for do kinder. and 1 see not if dere will be shoe.
How shall it be ~
One after another the on the west Side
nave IN their testimony. Save in the first one
there we're no formal accounts. But little think
Ing brought out the items. for many bakers bread,
tea sugar little mil ksnd butter and bit of meat
once or twice q week. the average cost of food
per head for the majority of cases being 90
cents per week. All coal was bought by
the seutte. scuttle of medium size
counting as ~ cents worth, thus much more than
doubling the cost per ton. In the same way wood
by the bunoe and oil 10y the quart gave the utmost
margin of profit to the seller and the same fact
al In fha
one first mentioned where the mother had learned
that cabbage water can forn the basis for a
nourisIiing and very palatabe soup, was there the
faintest CLEAN of understanding that the same
amount of money could furnish more varied,
more savory and more nourishing regimen.
9Beansp said one indignant soul. "What time
have | to think of beans or what money to bny
coal to cook 'ems What You'd want if you sat
over machine fourteen hours day would be tea
like lye to put backbone in yOn. That's why we
have tea always in the pot and it don't make much
odds what's with it. slice OF bread is about all.
Once in a while you get ragin', tearlp hungry.
Seems as il you'd swallow teapot or anything
handy to fiji up like, bat that amt often lucky for
usw
@If you all dubbed together couldn't one cook
for you Make good soup aud oatmeal and things
that are nonTishing. You would be stronger then p
STRONGER for WHAT More hours at the ma
chnei More grinding your own flesh and bones
into -four for them that's over u.s. Ma'aD. its easy
to see yon mean well, an won't say but what you
know more than some that comes around what
you're talKin' about. Climb might. Pm not
denying it could he done if there was time, but
who of us has the time even if she'd the will.
was never much hand for coosn. We'd orr tea
an bread an good bit of fried beef or pork maybe
when my husband was alive an at work lie cared
naught Tor fancy things like beans an such. It's
the tea that keeps you up an as long as can get
that II! not bother about beans"
In tho same house an old SWISS woman who had
fallen from her first estate as Iadys maid. through
ono grade and another OF service, was ending her
DAVIS on a wage of So per week. earned in