The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-01
LIVE ON 81 A WEEK.
students Do 1t on the Atkinson Plan ut
Springfield, Mass.
Boston Herald

Boston Herald.
People can live on 81 week. Four stu
dents of the manual training school at
Springfield, Mass, have lived at this cheap
tate for several weeks, and have enjoyed
life, Edward Atkinson who has made
study of the problem of cheap living says
that many people live just as cheaply, and
like it.
Here is the Aladdin oven" saws Mr..
Atkinson, which has been before the pub
lie for a good many years. 1t has been
fully described in my book upon the Sci
ehce OF Nutrition which is in its ninth
thousand, copy having been sent, chiefly
at the expense Of Andrew Carnegie to
nearly every public library in the land.
Anybody who possesses gumption and apti-
tude can live comfortably on a varied nu-
triton at a cost of less than 81 a, week for
food and fuel in the city of Boston, while
at $l.50 he or she may enjoy all the luXuries
IN their season; not out of their season, but
in season"
How do you explain the slow progress?"
Merely on the ground that white men do
not appear to possess the gumption and go
ahead quality of black men. The first man
capable OF applying, my methods on
I Rdgfs SCALE TO a big community was
School in Alabama. What he has done is
described in my book He is converting
the tough Alabama beef and mutton into
tender, nutritious and succulsnt food and
has been diminishing the cost Of subsst-
ing one thousand students, while giving
out OF an oven made of pine plank plastered
on wire on the inside, which cost SIS for
the material used in its construction. 1t is
operated with i've lamps on a whole side
or beef every night
Two Scotch youths kept their positions
IN Amherst College and completed their
course, living on Z cents a day. Anybody
can can 90 that who is willing to live simply
There is no difficulty about it in Boston
or Amherst or anywhere else"
What do you mean by that? That any,
BODY can live decently on so cents week? ~
certainly, you can find in my book sew
eraI oletar1es that will supply you with
good varied ho
under a stable bucket with a. Common lamp
get full nutrition, much better than you can
get at cheap restaurant without SPEND
ing over l cent a day, and for Sunday 8
cents extra for a swell dinner.
wake up to the fact that in every consider
able household there are old traps living.
ABOUT loose which can be converted into
a cooking apparatus without any cost and
that by their use better food can be pre-
pared than can be cooked on any Internal
machine known as a cooking stove. Peo-
pie VIII presently find that what | have so
often said is true-that the waste of good
material in bad cooking is a greater waste
ana comes to a greater sum in money than
community for national, state and munich
pal purposes. To that is added the waste
OF Tuel Two pounds of good kerosene oil
VIII do more work and do it better than
~ POUNDS OF coal. Yet stupid and ignorant
people-the ignorant rich as well as the
ignorant poor-gO on wasting good food
converting it into bad nutrition and wastin g
the fuel, with all the accompanying loss
dirt and discomfort.
Il hope those young men at Springfield
may have lighted the spark. I have been
expecting it for about ten or twelve years !:
but anyone vino studies economic science
whether practical or theoretical. will become
the crowd