The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-09
LIVING GHEHPLY.
A Chicago rlan Lives on
a Dollar a Week.
A DOLLAR A WEEK MENU

ne Chicago university department Of
domestic science has been having serie.
Of discussions upon the question of Nv
ing for $500 year.
William A. Morse. 1S1 West Madison
street, has been Interested greatly in tbe
reading of the $500 a year. discussion a.
the university. Mr. Morse comes forward
to state that if he had $500 a year and
cared to spend it he believes he cou,d
keep an automobile and a yacht For
Mr.. Morse makes his living cost him 81 .
week. More than that, he saws he liv,e
well on 81 a week. He could afford TO
pay many times that to live if he were so
inclined, but does not find it necessary.
For 81 week he says he lives il. clean
mess and comfort, and has no wish to
spend any more. During last winter he
Kept a carefully itemized account of his
living expenses, and found that for TWEEN,
ty weeks his expenses ran between 4s
cents and S.2l, or an average of less than
81 a week He has set down carefully the
items which he Kept during the twenty
weeks, and is ready to send them to the
University of Chicago, and have them
posted up on the bulletin board so that
all the divinity students who run NAV
read.
To a reporter Mr.. Morse brought cut
his book and showed two sample weeks
expenditures during the time he was
itemizing his living expenses.
In the. week beginning Dec 10 last his
| living expenses reached the minimum, the
total cost of his food supplies having
been 48 cents, itemized as follows:
Dec. II. Bread, 2 cents; OIL cents 50. on
Dec. r. Bread, 2 cents; sugar.
cents; oatmeal, 5 cents. ............... 10
Zee. 10. on, cents; milk, 8 cents 10
Dec. 10. Oil, cents; GA tIneal, 3 cents O8
Dec. It, Bread, 2 cents. .O2
The one week when his EXPENSES
reached the eXtravagant figure of $121 is
excused by Mr.. Morse on the ground that
tna I particular week was Christmas week
4ulge In lew trimmings in keeping with
the season. That week he INDUCED in
e en9 berries pork chops, pie, doughnuts,
His items that week We're:
Dec. II. Sugar, cents; oil, cents so II
Zee. 10 Oatmeal, 5 cents........... O6
DEC: ~ potatoes, 13 cents; oil, 10
Dee. 20. Bread, cents; pie cents: 40
doughnuts, cents .......... II
Dec. q, Oil, 10 cents; coffee, s cents. IL
|
Dec. g Pork chops. TX
Oec. H. CfanDerrleS, Z cents; dough-
nuts, cents. cake, cents; butter
Il cents ............................. 30
1otaI Observation-Disclosures. .S121
Mr.. Morse said: ut is not hard to live
on dollar q week in Chicago. if one onIv
knows how. The trouble is, a person gets
the idea that he needs a great MANY
things he doesn't have the slightest use
for, and could get along without Then
people waste a frightful lot 1 suppose
the young couples who try to live on $500
year either employ hired girls, who
make no effort to save in the kitchen. or
else the young wives are so inexperienced
that their efforts at ecOnomizing in the
kitchen probably cost three or four times
what the family would spend if they
didn't economize. The thing must be
done carefully and systema tically.
everything should be itemized and tho
results of each week carefully compared,
and, above all, there should be dbso .I1tely
no waste OF any sort
MIR. Morse said that since his wife died
he had been alone in the world He said
that he did not drink alcoholic liquors
and INDUCED in no luxuries except pipe
tobacco, which he smoked sparingly He
cooks his own meals on an oil stove and
wastes nothing. lie is a constant at
teudant at church and at various chart
table association meetings and at HUH
house. IL
He does not look as IF economical living
was a hardship for him. He is strona
and hearty looking, and much fatter than
divinity student. This year MIR Morse
has been superintendent of the Associated
Charities truck garden at West Fortieth
and Twelfth streets