Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-07-15
HOW ONE on 49, lives


a.
Resident u Washington.
u ID wonderful how the th.,,~ss
ut p4i iives comes back to as now q
me realities n the present. Daniel
"epster constantly made notes Of en-.
rent ideas, and when asked how lone !, |
was before he used them. replied sn S
.,ines twenty years, sometimes LONGER
"hen was boy, In Shelby county
went one day 70 afr. John Cooper's shoe
makers shop to be measured for ! r,air
u SHOES, az the custom Of the country
then was. He and his little con Rol.sr+
lived alone in the woods in 4 bouse "a
enc room. which was dwelling ana
shoe shop Soon Bob's uncle. fiidaon
Kayior, about his age, came in. and Bob
1osfuily exclaimed, Come, Uncle cid
we've got some potatoes, and there Z
plenty Of salt
u seemed strange to me to ses how
eagerly they roasted and ate the potatoes
and how happy they werc. They lived
happily, and yet this was ali their Iiv.
ing. ! have repeated this story fire.
qnentiy during my prosperous days as .
great wonder, never dreaming that Il
would become my own reality, as it now
IA, and ! am happy too
a Herman woman who could not
speak word OF English came into nv
ONCE one day with one Of my German
circulars in her hand, which Mr. Coor
had given her in Saxony. sent her out
INTO the country with q German mer.
chant to look at lands, and that day She
bought farm The next day made
the deeds, and she became the ownel
and moved in A neighbor soon after
ward told me that it cost that lad,
nothing to live. He says she puts til
cup Of coffee on the stove and tin Gu,
Of cornmeal mush, and that il all her liy
ing, but she is getting rich Thought tina
very strange, too, never thinking that
should live so. but do just that thin,
now, having remembered hearing hoy
she lived.
When lost all my money and ye
must live, ! rented room IA by is feet
with heat, for 3 per month-not a yer
good room and not very well furnished
but comfortable and respectable. an
there are plenty Of them at that pric,
l bought an outfit as follows: An iro
handy lamp, IS cents; three seamle.
pint tin cups. Is cents; one do. quar-
Is cents; one half gallon tin cup. wit
cover, 10 cents; three bowls,
cents; cup and saucer, 10 cents; gallo
glass oil can, IS cents; oil, Is cent
spoon, 10 cents; total outfit, 81. Then
/. bought one months provisions as f
/ lows: Half bushel potatoes, % cent
4 ten pounds cornmeal. 20 cents; shr
70 pounds Graham -four. Is cents. o.
: pound ground coffee. % cents; Gig
# pounds graduated sugar, 36 cents; o
j. pound lard, 10 cents; coarse salt. 5 cen
r total for the month. SLAB.
l. am good, hearty eater, and am fl
re fed and live we'll. and am thankful
at it, but cannot eat all of my mont
Id provision. There is always a consider
st BILE amount over every month, and i
g. well too. In the morning ! light I
~ handy lamp, fill my seamless pint
ID cup with water, put a teaspoonful
" ground coffee into it. put it over
ID lamp, and turn another tin cup. bott'
OF upward, over it for a cover. In
7; minutes there is pint cup Of good,
ia coffee. While the coffee Is boiling |
II, a little water into the half gallon C
eli not more than one-eighth full. and Il
= ell the quart tin cup about oae-fou
as full of cornmeal. add little salt. Il
" set this cup into the half gallon cup,
m. fill up the quart cup full of water 1
stir up the meal we'll Jam in the b
die of the quart cup so that it will
into the larger cup. As soon as the {
"a fee comes off set the mush on the lal
M Stir it occasionally. and when it thick
~, and fills up the cup take it off.
for buy loaf of bread for four CT
ed for Sunday, and melt little lard
in salt for gravy. and live well and h
an plenty to eat. Many others in this
err gaunt and half starved, can live wei
IRE this way.-John Howard in Washing
ne Post.