The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-08
HAS The SECRET
OF CHEAP LIVING
MINNEAPOLIS sTENoGRAPHER
ITEMIZEs HER EXPENSES
For Two Weeks the Provision Bill for
Herself and Her Brother Has Been
but $5.11-She Does Her Own Mar
keting and Keeps House Outside
Business Hours.

Ffeffuent discussion in T h g J o UT
nal Of topics bearing on the cost of
living brought to the paper an inter
esting contribution from one of its
readers giving leaf from the ex-
pense book of two young people 1ad
a sketch of the way they manage to
live in9veexpensively,. but comfort con ts
weeks exceeded SIS by but a, few cents,
they were we'll fed and that their diet
was seasonable and varied,
The problem Of economical manage
ment is easier for the woman who has
all her time at home, but this skilled
economist is a stenographer and does
her housekeeping outside of office
hours. Her brother, who lives with her,
him good appetite, SO the food supply
has to be plentiful. Having Saturday
afternoon off, Miss stenographer bakes
a batch of cookies one week and alter
mates that with a loaf of cake. She
buys her bread and pies. An import
ant point in her management is that
she does. her own marketing instead
e Of ordering, buying as IS she explains
During the two weeks of which an
account is given four guests were en-
tertained for dinner. The breakfasts
consisted Of either oranges or rhubarb
sauce, oatmeal or cOrnmeal mush and
cream, potatoes hashed, fried or
creamed, mullins, pancakes or toast,
cookies and coffee. The luncheons con-
sisted of eggs or salad, potatoes, hash,
cake or sauce and tea.
Two Weeks Dinners.
Following are the dinner menus for
the two weeks, which were taken at
random from the accounts Of the house
hold:
Sunday-Oream of asparagus soup. veal stew
With on coass
aha egg
Monday-veal soup. hamburg steak on mush
cakes. boiled onions. pota toes bread and straw
berry pudding with cream. tea.
Tuesday-Onion soup, veal with rice curry.
wited lettuce potatoes. rh sl3 pudding; tea:
Thursday-Rice soup. veal croquettes. spinach
potatoes apricot pie tea
Frfday-Veal SOUP minced liver, spinach. pc.
Saturday-Pork and beans, brown bread. spin
ndne opota sou PCT with
pudding, string beans in cream, mashed pota
toes, pineapple salad with cheese cakes, straw
berry shortcake and coffee.
Monday Tomato soup pork sausage, string
bean ian salad, potatoes, tapioca pudding tea:
cold fa
Wednesday Company dinner Tomato soup
lamb chops on mush cakes Spinach escallopet
corn, mashed potatoes. pineapple salad, cheese
| cakes, strawberry shortcake, coffee.
Thursday-TOmato soup. warmed over beef
spinach potatoes. Strawberries. hot biscuits. tea
Friday-Beef soup fish, corn. onion salad. r1ct
pudding. tea.
| Saturday--Beef loaf. boiled onions. lettuce
| salad. potatoes. strawberry pie, tea.
How the Money Went.
The provision bill for this period wa!
as follow: Veal stew shoulder,
cents a pound), rs cents; hamburger
steak, 5 cents; half pound liver,
cents; pork and beans, 10 cents; POI
roast C cents a pound), 20 cents; sau
sage, 5 cents; lamb chops, shoulder
10 cents; fish, 1.-TWO bullheads), II
cents; butter, so cents; milk, 40 cents
lard, 8 cents; cheese, cents; bread
80 cents; pie, 20 cents, flour, 10 cents
cornmeal, 5 cents; oatmeal, cents
lettuce, 5 cents; asparagus, 8 cents
onions, 10 cents; potatoes, (old), II
cents; tomatoes, 8 cents; spinach, II
cents; string beans, 10 cents, corn,
cents; Strawberries, % cents; oranges
20 cents; pineapple, 10 cents. rhubarb
5 cents; sugar, 25 cents; rice, cents
tapioca, 3 cents; tea Is cents; coffee
Is cents; oil, 10 cents; seasonings, q
! cents. akino q, total Of Ok IT