Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-20

ing interest. Lectures were given by Mrs.
E. P. Ewing, DR.. E. j. Haynes, Prof. W.
E. Waters, and the third and last of the
series on "Dress'' by Prof. Frederick Starr.
. ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcH.1
LAKE CHAUTAUoUA, July 19.-"I am
so puzzled about it do not know what to
do"
"W hat is the matter?"
"Why you see there are six hours of
Bible study, and 1 must attend them all,
and the morning lecture comes at the same
time and do not know what to do"
This is sample of the person who tries to
take in all of the countless attractions of the
Assembly grounds. A heterogeneous mass OF
incongruous and dissimilar events-classes,
lectures, studies, concefts-is continually
floating before his mind and. at the end, all
are tired out, having gained practically
nothing for her hard work. The last we had
had heard of the individual in question, she
had succeeded in persuading some one to
lend his notes to her for the entertainment
size could not connect on her daily time
table.
IN
1oll in tree shades to-day, for it was very
chilly-sort of a cold air that makes you
pull your coat closely about you and keep
still in some warm, cozy part of the parlor.
EXISTING ON 81 30 PER WEEK.
At II o'clock Mrs. Emma P. Ewing,
whose lectures have become so popular with
Chautauauans, spoke on "Choice Fair for
81 so a Week" "In the summer of 1887,
while in Iowa, kept a strict account of the
food used on our family table during
period of seven weeks. Our family con-
sisted of four adult persons, and we used
chickens, beef, lamb, veal, eggs, butter,
cream, milk, vegetables, melons, grapes, In
abundance, and all of the best quality.
The cost was exactly S42-S6 week for
the four, or 81 20 week Tor each person.
This covered the cost of everything except
the hired help, which increased the cost to
50 25 per week for each of US.
''At later date in Boston referred in one
of my talks to my experiment in Iowa, and
asserted that family of four, dispensing
with hired help, could live on the fat of the
land for 81 IS Or So per week. This state
ment was scoffed at by the Boston press, and
ridiculed as extremely absurd.
1T might be possible to live thus cheaply
in Iowa, where provisions can be bought for
a song, but in the East, where prices are
high. such possibility was entirely out Of
the question: Yet at the very time my
wise critics were employed in ridiculing my
assertions, was demonstrating them-right
under their noses-ln the department Of
domestic economy in the Young Woman's
Christian Association.
EVEN IN BOSTON.
"Forty-eight years ago the learned DR..
Lardner asserted that it was impossible to
construct vessel OF sufficient capacity to
carry the coal needed to run it by steam
across the Atlantic. In spite of his asser-
tion they do it. And in spite of journalistic
assertions to the contrary, choice fare can be
furnished for 81 so per week even in
Boston.
Instead of giving you the bills of fare and
cost of material of this association during
the months of my connection with it, will
go further and give them under the manage
ment of my successor and pupil, Mrs. Clara
Hayes, who, by the way, bears the degree Of
M. D. E.-Master OF Domestic Economy.
Her statement shows that during Novem-
Der and December the food, material, fuel
and ice for the board of IL and for numer-
Gus class lessons cost only 81 SO per week.
These are samples of her bills of fare:
November 6. Breakfast-Apples. grapes, veal
chops. baked potatoes, bread, butter and cof-
fee
November 9, Dinner-Cream of celery soup,
roast beef sweet potatoes, Drowned white po-
tatoes, baked sour apples, Washington pud-
ding, coffee.
November 9, Supper-Chicken salad, French
rolls, corn dodgers, ginger cakes tea. coffee.
These are average meals. Her statement
sustains all nv assertions and her record in
economy is, I think. even better than my
own.
SPECIMEN BILLS OF FARE.
The following bills of fare are average
specimens Of meals served to our family of
four for one week in April, 1888, bread,
butter and milk which are always on our
table are omitted:
Breakfast-Oranges, creamed Goldfish, boiled
potatoes, poached eggs on toast. coffee.
D1nner-Pea soup, roast beef, brown pota-
Supper-Farinos and cream, French rolls,
strawberry jam, ginger waters, tea.
What do you suppose it cost? Only ST. IS
each. Every family in the land can, for a
similar sum, have good bill of fare every
day of every week in the year if the lady of
the family is a provident housekeeper and
understands how to select and prepare food.
IF I could at any hotel. restaurant or
boarding house get as well cooked,
nutritious and satisfactory fare at even four
times the cost should be tempted to try
boarding house life and could even endure
Bellamy's Paradise for lazy women for a
limited period.
You will notice that there is little pie,
pudding or cake on my bills of fare. These
things are not omitted on account of their
cost, but for the simple reason that with
variety of pure. wholesome food properly
cooked people lose their appetite Tor trash,
and prefer to dispense with it and eat more
digestible and nutritious food.
II one chooses to subsist on water, coarse
bread, oat meal mush and the like it can be
done at trifing cost, but such subsistlng can
scarcely be called living. The average man
and woman wants and needs choice fare,
and the lowest cost of such it is my desire to
estimate to-day.
HOW THEY LIVE AT PURDUE UNIVERSITY
For three and half weeks last fall had
charge of the boarding hall at Pardue Uni
versity Fitty-seVen persons took their
meals in the hall. The supply Of food was
liberal and the quality Of the very best. The
bread was all made of the best brands of
patent -four. The butter was all gilt-edged
fresh and delicious. The coffee was excel
lent and with abundance of cream.
Everything was frst-class and at a
cost OF 81 80 apiece per week. I confidently
assert that no better fare was served last
September on any privave family table in
any State in the Union than was served to
magazine article Bishop Vincent has said
IF were boy, with my mans wisdom, l
should eat wholesome food and no other"
In tho 1i0ht of this declaration T doubt not