The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-06-22
LIVING ON NOTHING A
YEAR.

Mrs Emma P. Ewing told a
packed audience of housekeepers
at Chautauqua last week that it was
possible TO feed people well on
s1.50 the week each person. In
the summer of 1887, she said, " at
the Iowa Agricultural College, I
fed four people seven weeks for
s42, So week for all, or $3.50
week each. That covered the cost
of everything except the hired
help. In Boston, in October, L
was feeding family for sl.75
week and the Boston newspapers
were saying it could not be done.
You remember DR. Lardner demon
strated once that it was impossible
a steamship could carry coal to
last her during a voyage, but
steamships do it nevertheless"
Subioined is sample of Mrs.
EwIng's $3.50 bills of fare
Breakfast-Apples grapes, veal chops,
baked potatoes, bread. butter and coffee.
Dinner Tomato soup. boiled mutton
with caper sauce, boiled potatoes, mash
ed turnips, apple pie, cream and butter,
coffee and milk.
Supper-Cold meat, macaroni cooked
in cream, bread and butter, sally lunn,
tea and coffee.
The following is a bill of fare pre-.
pared at the rate for family of
four persons in 1888:
Breakfast Oatmeal, breakfast bacon,
steamed potatoes, apple sauce.
Dinner-Pea soup, roast beef. Drowned
potato es, sliced tomatoes, cold pudding.
Supper Rolled barley with cream,
ginger waters, tea.
In Kansas City this was the bill
of fare for one day in a week, cost
ing Sl.90:
Breakfast-Dried sweetbreads, pearled
wheat with cream, sirawb errit 3, bread
and butter, coffee and milk
Dinner-Rolied spring chicken, new
peas, new potatoes, strawberries, bread
and butter and tea
Supper-Boiled barley with cream
toast, tea and milk
An assistant of Mrs. Ewing, who
lives in Minneapolis, provided food
for family at Sl.16 each a week
on bills of fare like this:
Breakfast-Oranges poached eggs or
toast, milk.
Dinner-Soup, porterhouse steak, DO
| tatoes, parsnips, CHOW chow, peach pud
| ding.
Supper-Cold meat, oatmeal Will
cream, bread, marrnalade, butter, milk
Most people," said Mr.. Ewing
"even at Chautauqua, would think
they Jared pretty well if they
always got meats like this. AL
the dishes named are of the best
material. For our object has never
been to see how cheaply we could
live, but how we'll we could live al
small expense. A Chicago news.
paper suggested that | must be lear
and angular. You can see what q
comical mistake that is. In the
bills of tare you will notice cake
never appears. If people would
only do without it, they wonld
soon find their appetite for it dis
appearing. My statement that
boarders can be fed for $3.50 8
week each on choice fare at a profit
has been rldiculed. At Purdue
University, Ind, fifty. seven persons
took meals in the hall last summer
prepared by me. Forty four oil
them paid $3.50 week. The other
thirteen were members of my fam
lily or assisted in cooking.
1.-The receipts from boarders were
1886 in three and half weeks
The expenditures for food, labor
and fuel, $780,"
One of the Purdue bills of fare ID
subjoiEed:
Break ast-Canteloupe, French rolls
veal chops, stewed potatoes, bread, but
ter, coffee, milk.
Dinner-Rice soup, roast beef, pota.
toes, sliced tomatoes, macaroni, apples
| bread, butter, coffee, milk.
Supper-Cold lamb, baked potatoes
bread, butter, tea and milk
81 can feed fifty people," con.
tinued Mrs. Ewing, son $3.50 q
week, on good food, with profit OF
$3.50 day, and so can you if you
will exercise judgment in the selec-
ton of green food material and
prepare it so that nothing will be
wasted. The material consumed at
Purdue comprised an average of 81
pounds of meat and fish, 80 pounds
of bread, 124 pounds of sugar,
pounds of butter, II pounds OF
coffee, t pounds of tea, so pounds
OF ice, z gallons of milk and cream,
and $3.50 in fruit and vegetables y