The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-21

=, a ~ per month room, and if you look
! FAR enough you will find it. This rent
should also include light neat and SER
| vice, insist that sheets and towels be
| supplied and washed by the house,
| for in most cases this is the custom
in Philadelphia, and if the owner of
the special little room you are looking
| at does not do it go to some one else.
The little room will often be quite
dark-it is disadvantage, but make
the best Of it; make your room pretty,
individual, like a part of yourself, and
you will be happy in it. Every woman
should know how to stamp herself on
her surroundings
The lodging being found, the next
thing to settle is the question Of food
L have tried q hundred ways and at
last decided upon the cheapest, plenti-
ful diet. Buy one good full meal per
day-we all like it best at night, but
in this city the cheapest dinner a work
ing girl can get is served in the middle
of the day. Not long ago a lunch room
was opened by some Of the ladies of
the city for women employed in the
business quarter. 1t is at Eleventh and
SAMSON, and there every day from II
TO lunch is served-a full lunch,
sufficient for dinner, which costs but
II cents, II one buys q dollars worth
Of tickets, or dinners enough for the
working week. You simply pay for
the actual cost of your meal and ac-
cOnlmodations. Soup is served hot and
good, roast meat, some vegetables,
desert and bread and butter with
coffee, tea, or chocolate.
know many girls who eat this din
ner every day, and who get their own
breakfast before starting out to work
Ten cents will supply really nutritious
breakfast, such as a cup of coffee, a
boiled egg and two rolls, or a cup of
cocoa made with condensed milk,
which is already sweetened so that
no sugar need be bought Butter may
be kept fresh and sweet by covering
1t with water; it is a French idea, and
Is really good one.
Of course there are an infinite variety
Of things one can buy for breakfast.
Each should be guided by her taste, but
one implacable rule should be observed,
that is, to eat enOugh-be satisfied,
No woman can keep well if she works
hungry, and many do it. To be in
sufficiently fed is to pave the road to
failure. SO far the day has cost but
q cents, 10 cents for breakfast and
II cents for dinner and now comes sup
per. Again the bachelor maid who is
forced to economic may get her own
supper. There are several shops in
the city now, German shops, called
'delicatessen" stores, and they are the
paradise of the tiny housewife who
caters for one s.....,s-. .--.
There, upon the counters, are baked.
boiled or roasted meats-you may buy
sliced ham or beef, or pork, cold tongue
or veal. head cheese, In fact your choice
of cold cooked meats, enough for two
suppers for ten cents. Make again a
cup of something hot to drink, and buy
your bread for supper and breakfast,
or better still, have it delivered at your
house. -,s..
This supper will cost about fifteen
cents, not more. Even if you buy a
jar of jelly and a box of crackers, they
last so long that the cost per meal is
slight.
Living in this way your eating per
day costs not more than fifty cents,
your room about thirty-four cents and
sixteen cents are left of a dollar for
emergencies, such as a ride in the car
or stamps, and from which to accumu-