The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-03-12
HOW ONE OLD MAN LIVES.
Economical Board and Room Keeping OF
q Resident of Washington.

q Resident of Washington.
1t is wonderful how the theories of
our past lives comes back to US now as
the realities Of the present. Daniel
Webster constantly made notes of cur
rent ideas. and when asked how long it
was before he used them, replied some
times twenty years, sometimes longer.
When was boy. in Shelby county. |
went one day to Mr.. John Coopers shoe
makers shop to be measured for pair
of shoes, ss the custom of the country
then was. He and his little son Robert
lived alone in tie woods in house of
one room. which was dwelling and
shoe shop. Soon Boh'S uncle, Gideon
Kaylor. about his age. came III. and Bob
joyfully exclaimed Come. Uncle Gid.
we've got some POTATOES. and there is
plenty Of salt.
1t seemed strange to me to see how
eagerly they roasted and ate the potatoes
AMI how happy they We're. They lived
happily, and yet this Was al their hv-
ing. | have repeated this story fire.
quently during nay prosperous days rs a
great wonder. never dreaming that it
would become my OWL reality. as it now
Is, and | a.n happy too
A German woman who could not
speak word Of English came into my
Office one day with one of my German
circulars il her hand which Mr.. Coop
had given her in SaXony. | sent her out
into the country with a German mer-
chant to look at lands, and that day she
bought a farm. The next day made
the deeds. and she became the owner
and moved in. "A neighbor soon after
ward told me that it cost that lady
nothing to live. He says she puts tin
cup Of coffee on the stove and tin cup
of cornmeal mush. and that is all her liv-
ing, but she is getting rich. thought that
very strange. too, never thinking that |
should live SO. but do just that thing
now, having remembered hearing how
she lived.
When lost all my money and yet
must live. rented {. room II by l6 feet,
with heat. for s. per lnonth-not a very
good room and not very we'll furnished,
bat comfortable and respectable, and
there are plenty Of them at that price
| bought al outfit as fellows: An iron
handy lamp. - cents; three seamless
pint tin cups, II cents: one do quart,
II cents: one half gallon tin cup. with
cover. ~ cents; three bowls. II
cents: cup and saucer. 10 cents: gallon
glass oil can. % cents; oil. Is cents;
sroJn. H. cents: total outfit. *. Then
bought O:le months provisions as fol
lows: Half t:.sn"l lYtatoea, - cents:
ten rouHis cornneal, 90 cents: three
pounds Graham tiot.r. Is cents: one
pound ground coffee. - cents; eight
pounds yranulate! sugar. 3G cents: one
pound lard. 10 cents: coarse salt. 5 cents;
total for the month, 81 .4G.
an good, hearty eater. and am full
fed and 1--we we'll. ana am thankful for
it. but caurot cat all Of my months
provision There is always a considera-
Bile f.mount over every month, and live
well too. In the morning light my
handy lamp, fiji my seamless pint tin
cup with water, put a tea3poonful of
ground coffee into it, put it over the
lamp. and tTrn another tin cup. bottom
upward, over it for cover. In ten
LIIIuCOo CAc1t ID u ElAI cup VI SOOu, HOI
coffee. While the coffee is boiling put
a little water into the half gallon cup.
not more than One-eighth full. and then
fill the quart tin cup about one-fourth
full Of cornmeal, add little salt, then
set this cup into the half gallon cup. and
fill up the quart cup full of water and
stir up the meal well. Jam in the han
die of the quart cup so that it will go
into the Larger cup. AS soon as the cof-
fee comes off act the mush on the lamp.
Stir it occasionally. and when it thickens
and fills up the cup take it off.
l buy loaf Of bread for four cents
for Sunday. and melt little lard and
salt for gravy. and live we'll and have
plenty to ed: Many others in this city,
gaunt and half starved. can live well in
this way.-J ohm Howard in Washington
Post.