El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-11-16
LIVE ON A DOLLAR A WEEK

Expenses of . Frugal Couple mt VAL
paradise.
Fifty-two dollars a year for two per
sons Is the sum which eX-Judge Tai
colt Of Valparaiso, Ind, sets apart for
living expenses. What is more re-
markable, he succeeds in keeping with
in this limit, and both he and Mrs. Tai
colt profess to be more than satisfied
with the amount of food they allow
themselves.
Moreover. their figures are six times
as impressive as those of the Chicago
university economists. who have re-
Gently provoked wide discussion by de-
claring that IA man and his wife can
subSist at n cost of $500 a year.
The 81 a week expense limit is more
startling in view of the age of the ex-
perimentaliSts. Judge Talcott is 50
years old. but is strong. well and ac-
tive. Mrs. Talcott, who is some ten
years younger. has an almost girlish
freshness of complexion and does all
the work about their home. As the
Judge has an abundance of means the
81 week dietary regimen is adhered
to purely from choice.
Households that have difficulty in
making both ends meet on ten times
the sum that affords this aged couple
so great contentment are invited to
study this simplest of regiments:
Breakfast-Oatmeal mush, milk and
sugar.
Dinner-Bread and milk and sugar.
Supper-COrnmeal mush and sugar.
Once a month this is varied by a
meal including small amount of
meat.
AS to quantity, one coffee cup full Of
the cereal at each meal quite suffices
the judge. while his wife eats even
less.
Judge Talcott was willing to tell how
II feels TO live on 80 cents n week
"Plain living is the secret of content
ment and Of economy as WELL" he said
II used to be pretty greedy eater
whenaI was young. My first wife and
gradually left unnecessary things out
of our table regimen and during the co
years in which we lived together re-
duced ii to the simplest terms.
''During the last two or three years
OF her life kept close track to see
what our expenses amounted to. and
they were less than So for 50 weeks
v.
however. and no milk to buy But l
raised n large quantity of garden stuff
We used practically none of that, but
gave 10 TO my sons and to the neigh
bors.
MY first wife died a little more than
a year ago. and married again last
September. My present wife shares
my notions Of economy and plain lv-
ing. and our expenses are not greater
than before
II eat lots of sugar and find it an en-
cellent food. When | was n boy, sugar
was worth 20 cents a pound or more.
and never got enough. and l am max
Ing up now. Sometimes one or both of
US feel meat hungry. and we get
slice of ham or some sausage or beef
and eat that
Look at me and tell me il 1 am not
In fine health for a man away past 50
l stand straight, walk often five or
more miles day and within the last
ten years have made three trips to Cal
lfornia, living there two years. l work
about the yard. cut all the wood for the
winter. keep the hard wood trees trim
med and do other things of that sort
without difficulty. can still swing INV
Ak TO fell or lop tree"
Mrs. Talcott is equally contented
with her triumph over the pleasures of
the palate and supplemented her hus-
bands statement.
have been living on plaiu diet for
half n century," she said. Fifty years
ago 1 was i'll. and the doctors said