Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-08-27
LIVING IN PARIS ON
THIRTY DOLLARS A MONTH.
Family Of Three Can Skimp and Stint and
Come Out Only Ten Dollars to the
Bad Each Month.

washing out the smaller articles), 80.
Total, $14.
! The Five Year-Old Boy (Personal).
Paint box, slate, candy and toys, Sz''
! 2 pairs of shoes, SLIGO; resoleing same,
so cents; 8 aprons, 80 cents; clothes,
$3.50; straw hat, 35 cents; sofa-bed, S4'
/ quilt, 81 l doctors visit, 6U cents
1 20 days at the hospital at ~ cents
| day (scarlatina), S11.20; CAP 10 Jake
him to hospital Che walked home), %
cents. Total, $3.50.
The Wife and. Boy (Food) during
| this year they ate at home)- 8
cents; meat, Z cents; vegetables (not
| including potatoes, to be noted In the
| joint housekeeping" account), cents
milk, 8 cents. Total, IL cents day,
and for the year, $62.05.
Weekly pounds sugar, 20 cents; l
! pound butter, q cents; " pound laro,
/ cents; II eggs (average price,, lo
cents; " pound cheese, 8 cents; 4
pounds potatoes, 5 cents; fresh or
| dried fruits, II cents; wine, 10 cents.
Total, $100 week for the year, $56.oo.
Housekeeping Joint expenses
monthly: Two pounds flour, 10 cents;
! 1 box of cocoa, 80 cents; l pound COT
fee, % cents; half pound tea, 10 cents;
half pound crackers, 10 cents; can
| dies, cents; matches, cents;
pounds soda, cents; soap, II cents;l
! lemons, as at cents each), 30 cents;
! / pint of vinegar, 5 cents; salad oil,
! u cents; thread, needles, etc, 80 cents.
| Total, 5000 for the month, and for
! the year, $24.36.
QYv1H
/ Joint annual expenses: lnsecticide
powder, 30 cents; remaking mattress
ses, 70 cents; pets and pans, 81; letter
| paper, etc, 80 cents; postage stamps,
$120; shoe backing and brushes, gu
cents; salt, II pounds, "a cents; spices,
so cents; lamp chimneys, 16 cents; lie
| insurance, popular industrial on pol
icy CT 1900 francs, $14.60; subscription
to ward charities, 81; newspapers, 81;
1 mouse trap, cents; medicine for
wife, $50; Sunday outings and amuse-
ments, $685. evening refreshments at
cafes twice a week, 20 cents an even
ing, S20;S0; photographs, 81. Total
for the year, $S1.36.
G-nerai Expenses.-Annual rent, S3S;
winter heating, C months coke and
| wood, $1440; fuel for cooking in
summer, $3.50; light in summer Il
quart kerosene a week., and winter 6
quarts say SO quarts, at cents a
quartz, 1884. Total for the year,
$59.S4.
Thus we see how possible it is to live
cheaply, worthily and gayly in Paris.
Twice a week the young couple, accom-
panied by the hey, spend bright ev-
~ toll 70 of
their neighborhood- white cafe"
and not beer and sausage establish
merit; a family cafe, where syrup and
water are as usual as coffee or the thin
French hook There they meet the
neighbors, wives and husbands, and
pass the time with domiroes and con-
Versation in an atmosphere of light
and color, while the boy looks at the
illustrated papers.
In truth, the cafe is club and salon
to the lower middle-class Paris.ans.
Their Sunday outings took picnic
form in summer-to the gingerbread
fari; to see the fountains play at Saint
Cloud; boat trip to Sevres and back,
or watching the great world drive by
from the terrace Of the Pavilion Chin
ois at the entrance to the park. They
went to the races-admission 20 cents
each to the pelouse.
In winter there are the museums, the
free lectures and the free concerts of
the Governments liberality. For 20
cents each they even treat themselves
to rare matinee-on the equivalent
of billboard tickets bought from
friend in the profession.
MI Wi a.
ness ran only to $46.S0 for the year;
| and there were light and fire saved in
the bargain. Their annual expenses
were:
Husband {personaD ...........$2l14e
HusbaEdd (extraord:n1ryj .... $40
Wife (personaD ...........".$ 400
Wife and boy (food) ........... 1873
Z---s1594 IS
Housekeeping - 50
Housekeeping and amuSe-
ments shared equally by
the husband ................. Sl.36
| General expenses .............. 1881
Total expenses for the year. SIG. 0S
Their expenses were S467.0s and
| their income was $50 a month, with
| $50 extra at Christmas; in all $500,
| leaving an apparent yearly deficit Of
| SS60S. 1t was the renewal of the
| husbands wardrobe that cost $500.
1t must not occur too soon again.
! The sofa bed and quilt of the boy, plus
his scarlatina, in all nearly SIS, must
| also be looked on as extraordinary.
SHE is RID OF THE COOKING.
Now fer the young wife there is no
more cooking, no more messing over a
| hot stove and dirty dishes, no more
dragging of the market basket. She
has gone back to envelope addressing,
when the children let her, and can
average 80 cents a day-moIe than
! enough to justify the abandonment OF
| the kitchen, she insists.
Her husband insists also. Though
"rnly salesman, he has read and
observed seriously, and the result is
some special ideas en- the emancipa-
tion of woman. He finds it bad that
a .woman should spend her life in the
| kitchen, when she can find better en-
| ployment for her time. Undoubtedly
| the cuisines populaires of Paris-fayor-
| ed by the municipality and operated
Oh a calculation of only per cent. a
year profit-greatly favor his expert