The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-01-22
THE NEWS BREAD FUND.
Extraordinary Interest in 1t
Still Maintained.
MANY UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS
Contributions Are Well Up with the
Demand-A Small Sum from Many
People VIII DO 1t without a sacri-
fee.

Suppose the man is at work earning a
dollar day.
Suppose he has a wife and three
children.
Suppose they are all well, no trouble or
sickness of any kind-everything in favor
Nble condition.
How far will the dollar go?
1t will have to covert
Groceries and provisions,
Coal and wood,
Clothing,
Rent.
A little oil for the lamp, bit of soap,
box of matches occasionally, and even
under the brightest circumstances an APP
palling list of sundries from mending the
window pane which the bright boy threw
a ball through, to buying Mother
Winslow's soothing syrup for the baby.
Chances are, that take it day
in and day out, not much Of
that dollar will be saved. Indeed
at the end of the month the man is likely
to find himself:
Unable to meet the rent.
In debt to the grocer for that last quar-
ter's worth of brown sugar.
Owing the coal man for a basket or two
of wood.
Children's shoes all out-toes looking
through them.
In a quandary whether to expend the
few cents at command for oil for the lamp
soap for the dishes, or hold on to il till
enough can be added to pay some OF tie
bills.
And yet that is fortunate household
in many respects. Suppose the man was
out Of work-been out OF work for weeks
and weeks. Suppose the coal and
wood and groceries were all
gone. Suppose the children were
sick, in sore need of nourishment and med
cine. Suppose, in fact, there was one half
the suffering that THE NEWS esteemed
contemporary, The Journal, has told the
public about, could there be such thing
as too much help, too liberal contribu-
tions?
In either case THE NEWS Bread Fund
comes in. The man who Is earning some
thing but who finds 1t simply impossible
to make both ends meet, is relieved tenn
porarily Of the expense of his bread.
No food is so necessary to him
as bread. He can forego every
other food for time il he can only have
bread. What more wholesome, more de-
licious than bread and mllkl The epicure
would often leave a feast for il. What
more refreshing to the sick or weary than
a bit OF toast and cup OF tea! IL means
a heap to have The NEWS Bread
Fund take care OF the bread
two fresh loaves to every such
family-ten cents saved them with which
they may buy milk or exc out enough for
a half pound OF strengthening tea-to say
nothing OF quinine pills and paregoric for
the teething baby. For that family, THE
News solves the bread problem. The item
OF bread has not to be consulted, and there
are so many things they must have II is a
wonderful help and relief to have one of
them eliminated.
And the best of IL Is the loaf OF bread
which saves five cents for that family,
doesn't cost anybody anything like as
much as that. IL only costs three cents
and the generous contribution Is able to
supply nearly two loaves for the sum IL
would cost that family to buy one loaf and
the needy household has ten cents TO spend
for other necessaries. That's the practical
beauty OF THE NEWS Bread Fund. Those
who would helpar enabled togive more re-
lief, In proportion to the amount expended,
through the mediuin of the Bread Fund
than they can in almost any way you
could name. For every 3 cents invested
I'm the Fund, some family is saved cents
and has loaf OF new bread to boot.
That's why the Bread Fund Is SO imme-
diately and astonishingly popular. THE
News acknowledges its surprise that In
the midst OF SO many and varied demands
on generous humanity, it's prOpositio ion for
relief should. within 36 hours,
bring I'm responses amounting 20 nearly
5000 ioavcs. THE News can but
assume, also, that not only is the sue
cess Of it's Bread Fund due to the real