The Republican., 1892-01-29

ton Of a loaf of bread and O few bis
cults from the bakers, furnishes food
enough for three and sometimes four
persons, thereby reducing the price Of
living to almost less than a nominal
sum.
You will say that this is not fair to
the caterer, but the caterers understand
the matter thoroughly, and know that
the meals are being used in that man
ner, but they offer no objection for the
reason that they are making money
even in that way. If there was any
disposition on their part to object to
furnishing meals for three or four per
sons for the price paid for two meals,
they could very readily cut down the
supply, SO that their patrons might not
be benefited by their liberality. Thus
you see that when a young couple COM
mence light housekeeping in a fat Of
from three to five or six rooms, there
could be no plan SO cheap for them as to
order dinners and breakfasts for one at
six dollars week. This is not only
half the price they would be required
to pay for good board, but is about half
the amount they would expend in their
regular marketing; or, better still, they
are able in this manner to dispense
with the services Of servants. and there
by in Washington they are relieved OF
the necessity Of supporting all Of the
unemployed relatives of servants.
One of the most successful of these
caterers this morning explained briefly
his method Of business. He said: "The
more people | can serve of course the
better can do it. buy my provisions
great deal cheaper than any woman
could get them, because buy every
thing at wholesale and invariably pay
cash. run my business on a weekly
basis by which ! mean that collect
from my customers at the close Of each
week In this way am never obliged
to ask for credit myself, and in paying
cash for my provisions receive a dis
count on everything purchase, even at
Wholesale prices. The average house,
wife thinks it is nice thing to run a
bill at the grocery and at the butchers,
to be paid at the end of the month. Thus
they go through their entire lives with
out being able to realize, no matter how
many times you tell them, that by pay
ing ready money they can get their
goods cheaper and of better quality.
For example, the best sausage, made OF
select meat from the hams of pork costs
thirty cents per pound in the Washing
ton market, and women who buy from
their butchers monthly pay from thirty
two to thirty-fve cents per pound for it.,
or else they purchase inferior sausages,
which are usually impure food. pur-
chase one hundred pounds of this best
sausage at time, and only pay nine
teen cents per pound for It. Other
things throughout the entire list pre-
pared for the food of my patrons are
purchased at the same ratio Of cheap
ness, and yet serve them with bet
ter quality Of goods than they would be
able to secure for themselves"
A great many of my readers do not
reside in the city where it is possible
for them to obtain all the comforts OF
home in this manner, but no matter
where, in palace or hamlet, a man may
dwell, he can consider and adopt
throughout the new year some means
and methods of tightening the burdens
which fall upon his wife. The most
pitiable creature on this earth, because
she is the most deserving OF pity, is'the
household drudge in civilized countries.
No woman reduced to such a condition
of slavery can be well fitted to be the
mother OF . free and liberty-loving
family OF American children. No man
who makes drudge of his wife de.
serves citizenship in such a republic as
this. No man who permits his wife TO
toll as slave deserves TO become the
father of children, who will have suf-
frage in the next generation. Such
men are the ancestors of our Hay
market anarchists, our Guiteaus and
Kemmlers. SMITH d. FRY.