Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-08-26

Total expenses for the year. s476 OS
Their expenses were $5IG0s and their in
come was $50 a month. with $50 extra at
Christmas; in all. $780, leaving an apparent
yearly deficit of SS6OS. 1t was the IRE
newal'' of the husbands wardrobe that
cost S34 20. 1t must not occur too soon
again. The sofa bed and quilt of the boy,
plus his scariatina, in all nearly SIS, must
also be looked on as extraordinary.
She is Rid of the Cooking.
Now for the young wife there is no more
cooking, no more messing over hot stove
and dirty dishes. no more dragging of the
market basket She has gone back to en-
velope addressing, when the children let
her, and can average 30 cents day-more
than enough to justify the abandonment
of the kitchen. she insists.
Her husband insists also. Though "only
a salesman" he has read and observed
seriously, and the result Is some special
ideas on the emancipation of woman. He
finds it bad that woman should spend her
life in the kitchen. when she can find bet
ter employment for her time. Undoubted-
ly the cuisines populaires Of Paris-favored
by the municipality and operated on cal
culation OF only per cent a year profit
greatly favor his experiment For II cents
they furnish a meal of one meat dish, two
vegetables, bread and a glass OF wine.
The bill of fare is varied and the portions
are generous-for Paris. Morning coffee
and roll, 3 cents: lunch. IL cents: dinner.
II cents. Total for each adult. 81 cents.
The extras for the boy. eating partly from
his parents dishes. amount to 10 cents a
day more. In all 1t costs the family o.
cents 4 day to eat at the cuisines popu-
laires and for the year $2336O
When the husband ate at home Sum-
days. and the wife cooked for herself and
the boy, the total expense for the year was
$211 AZ, Of which the wife and child's share
(home ceoking) amounted to s11S.73. against
s135.05 at the cuisines populaires.
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finitely addressing envelopes to the heart
breaking round of kitchen messing with
the sole result of feeding herself and a
small boy. I'm larger families SAYS the
husband, where there are several bread
winners. and where all assemble
around the family table, the question pre-
sents itself differently. To my mind. the
natriarchal home life of the old-fashioned
French farmer is almost ideal. All troop
into the old dining hall to the sound OF the
great bell the sons and daughters of the
house, the children and the grandchildren.
yes, and the farm boys and girls well.
who have their place down at the lower end
of the table. It is a charming picture, but
It needs larger frame than the surround
ings of a Paris clerk and his nervous lit
tie wife Man does not live by bread Alone
and until something better offers we, too.
shall continue to content ourselves with
the ragouts and rice buildings Of the cuf-
sines populaires. These restaurants are
already step toward socialism. although
they had their beginnings IN nothing nobler
than the bid for popularity Of certain mu-
nicipal councillors. For our pleasures we
have the streets of Paris lighted up at
night like fairyland-with no more noble
object than to attract the moneyed for
eigner. And next year we shall have the
exposition razzle Monsieur" he concluded
solemnly II had rather be a Paris clerk.
modest and poor. than barbarian of the
'>' STERLING HELLO.