Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-11-23
WoeKlN6MeN or LONDON.
How They Manage - More Economical
Than Those Of America

How They Manage - More Economical
Than Those Of America.
The workingmen Of London are
poorly paid in comparison with the
w~orkingnien of New York, but as far
as / could Judge they lived as well, or
better. The reason for this seemed 10
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 the work
ingmen of the United States. Having
understood that the watchmen in Lon
don were receiving only a pound a
week for their services, / thought that
l would like 10 know how they man.
aged to live on so small pay, so j
asked a night watchman on the square
where | lived if he had a family. Il
have, sir said he; Il have a wife and
three children" "And can you live
comfortably on a pound week." In
United States money seventy cents a
day. Yes. sir" he replied; we've
managed 10 get along SO far, and as
two of my children win soon be able
to earn something ! am pretty web
satisfied
Twill you tell mel asked again,
how you manage TO make both ends
meet-you don't run in debt, /
hopper "0h, no, sir, ! never runs in
debt; / knows Just how much ! am 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 / 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 q roof
over Dur heads and fire 10 cook with
and keep US warm when the weather
ID cold-then a few pennies are laid
aside which 90 TO the society, that will
give us IA decent burial; then we cal
culates just how much we can spend o
day for food, and have enough left
over for clothing, and a little besides.
We usually have meat once and some
times twice a week, and always on
Sundays, and we have plenty OF pota.
toes and bread. The city furnishes
me with two suits of clothes a year,
and my wife buys the cloth for the
other things / needs, and for her
clothes and the children's, and she
makes them up. / helps her myself,
sometimes. about the housework.n
You say | remarked, you hav,
a little left over; what do you do with
that" 'Oh, sir, that is put in the
savings bank, so that we may have
something TO fall back upon if fanny OF
us gets sick" DO you drink any
liquor No, sir" Not even beerf
Not often, / like a glass Of beer as
well as anybody, but / might lose my
place if was often seen in beer shops,
and can get along just as well with,
out III besides, sir, / could not afford
20 drink becri IL wanted TO-" "A GOOD
many OF your class ! said, do drink
1t, and IA good deal Of it, That is
true, sir; aud n good many of them
dies in the almshouse.' do you TAXI
nothing in these long, chilly nightsT
Nothing but tea, sir, which nv wife
makes for me. takes a bottle OF il in
my pocket, and drinks that as | take
my rounds. 1t lisa good deal cheaper,
and | am sure il is a good deal bestei
for mo than beer" "One question
more, and / have done; how is il about
your children you don't let them grow
up in ignorance, l supposed Who
teaches themf' ''Tbey goes 10 the
free school, sir; we have free schools
in London / was a good deal inter.
ested in this mans story, which ]
drew out Of him by questions. BE
was a man supporting himself and his
family ON 20 cents a day, and yet hale,
hearty and contented. Who are more
entitled 10 respect than such menl-
Hugh McCull1ch's Men and Measures.