The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-11-15
woRklNcMEh OF LONDON.


How They Manage - moro Economical
Than Those Of America.
The workingmen Of London are
poorly paid in comparison with the
workingmen of New York, but as far
as I could Judge they lived as well, or
better. The reason for this seemed to
be that rents and everything used and
consumed in the families, except
meats, were lower in London than in
New York, and that the English
workingmen were better managers
and more economical than tho work
ing1nen of the United States Having
understood that the watchmen in Lon
don were receiving only pound q
week for their services, / thought that
would like to know how they man
aged to live on so small pay, SO 1
asked night watchman on the square
where lived if he had a family. Il
have, sir, !" said he; II have a wife and
three children ''And can you live
comfortably on pound week7" Qn
United States money seventy cents q
day.) ''Yes, sir" he replied; "we've
managed to get along SO far, and as
two Of my children will soon be able
to earn something 1 am pretty we'll
| satisfied.
'sWill you tell me-" I asked again,
chow you manage to make both ends
meet-you don't run in debt, /
hope2" ''Oh, no, sir, never runs in
debt; knows Just how much ann to
get each week, and, as the saying is,
cuts my coat according to the cloth ]
cannot tell you exactly how much
everything costs, but I can tell you
what we do. In the first place we sets
aside what we have to pay each month
for rent, and the next what we have
to pay for coal-we must have a roo
over our heads and fire to cook with
and keep us warm when the weather
is cold-then few pennies are faid
aside which go to the society, that viii
give us decent burial; then we cal
culates just how much we can spend {
day for food, and have enough lef
over for clothing, and little besides
We usually have meet once and some
times twice q week, and always o.
Sundays, and we hare plenty of pota
toes and bread. The City furnishe,
me with two suits Of clothes year
and my wife buys the cloth for th'
other things / needs, and for he
clothes and the children's, and sh'
makes them up. Ihelps her myself
sometimes, about the housework."
"You say" remarked, ''you hav,
little left over; what do you do will
that2" ''Oh, sir, that is put in th,
savings bank, SO that we may hav'
something to fall back upon if any o
as gets sick" ''Do you drink an,
iquora" mo, SIR" ''Not even beerf
mot often, I like a glass of beer a
well as anybody, but 1 might lose m.
place if I was often seen in beer shops
and I can get along just as well with
out it; besides, sir, could not affor'
to drink beer if I wanted to-" "a goo'
many of your class" l said, "do drinl
it, and q good deal of it" ''That i
true, sir; and good many of then
dies in the almshouse. /" DO you talk
nothing in these long, chilly nightse
Nothing but tea, sir, which my wifi
makes for me. takes a bottle Of it i,
my pocket, and drinks that as I take
my rounds. 1t isa good deal cheaper
and am sure it is q good deal bette
for me than beer" ''One questio
more, and have done; how is it abou
your children; you don't let them groy
, up in ignorance, | supposed VIII
!, teaches them2" ''They goes to tn
, free school, sir; we have free school
in London" was good deal intel
: ested in this mans story, which
drew out of him by questions. II
, was man supporting himself and hi
r family on 70 cents day, and yet hale
hearty and contented. Who are NOR
r entitled to respect than such men +
\ Hugh McCulloch's Men and Measure: