The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1909-06-25
THE SIMPLE life in EARLY Oregon

he cost of living higher than formerly was While Mr. Geer
article gives picturesque comparison OF present day life with tina
- tbe past generation does touch the the cost
living has tremendously increased in the last five His com
cation is interesting and readable however we present
in full
There many good and plain why thinking peop
oud or may differ about of the problems which arr
der discussion but the which undere the increased
of living are not difficult find In word v
row than years ago because got OF life
benand fully in proportion the increased of it. When
man os and enjoys much he did generation ago
should not lift his hands savage protest that is costing him
as much to live did then Two and merely make
for in 1909 and that all that attained through the
mathematical process in the days of our fathers.
AS Johnny couldn't his cake and have when the
erment was first made theremoe past his
o enjoy one hundred worth of uxuries and necessities
Of life every dollar of income and lay by comfortable bank
account besides The law of and effect cannot be abogaed
NOT even by the initiative referendum situation where
only the recall can do the work
There times when people have things And they insist
mon having them If they lived like they did 40 years agoeven
like our parents did in the early dayhe cost OF living would
much less en considering the improved methods of production
in every ater myself whether others do or not that am
quite Young man vet still remember when sperm candles were
uxre only when company spend the evening
ali other times aow candles universally burned made at home
by the women folks In those days if family should have
used sperm candles which small boxes containing - dozen
would been talked about by the entire neghborhood as
recdessly and scandalousy extravagant
Now however the kerosene lamps generally cast INTO
the rubbish heap When you house unless you can
upon entering every door in it. switch or press button ad
immediately secure illumination equal 20 or 30 candepowe
YOU at once pronounce ouodate and undesirable And there
must be hot and cold practically oom up and down
stairs to be merely by turning faucet and howater tank
must be installed which will supply large quantities OF water fo
washing and bathing purposes In the days when did COST
50 much to live the bath was taken kitchen the back
porch washtub with heated IN an iron kee-a process
by the way which did not occur more than once week ~ ~
saving.
It cost more to live now then for the reason that tour
times two is twice as many times 1t always was ad'
so far be calculated now, it always VIII be-
In those davs requiring did entire day to traVe from
Salem to Portland for instance and another to RETURN the trip woa
necessarily require three days. if time were taken to transact any
business Now the same thing be done in Il hours ana
Portland so years ago than now 1or te reason
that the trip seldom taken In the aggregate no douO w
pie of Salem spend 25 times much capita each year
Portland now with the fare So the round trip as they dd We
$40 1t is almost little matter OF surprise 10 nee d
from Salem Eugene Albany OF any Eastern oregon "
streets of Portland meet Portland man. Na
ally travel when fares are ow' Whe you
then when fares much higher, If you stay at nome
But this only phase of it We have moved Iol " ~
same rate along all other lines Telephones free rural mail delivery
free bridges bugees automobiles and thousand and one o'
forts Of life which "the fathers never conceived OF even III
widest dreams are every day OF the year lha' 9 80
money goes without saying money which would be saved "
the indulgence
And the clothes we buy were made by the amiy Even
he cloth itself was made by the folks Not uo@ ""
paid out for this nurnose Now the whole of represents ca
And the family so years ago which sent its Washing 10 u
by that placed itself strictly within the pale OF
arisocracy Now nearly eveybodys washing hnds IT'S way
laundry each week Even the farmers wives have caus W
this modern method of saving the muscles OF the OaeK anu
literally tons of dirty linen are shipped the towns and c "
this every week from the arms-a system WHICH "o
woke indignation meeting that part OF spirit lau SCI
our gandnotters if communication with them as to te cos
songs of their posterity possible n ,1
ride the best bugeies-many of them sporting automoo