The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-01-13
Philosopher Ad-
'uiis the Increase, but Thinks
II Worth the While.
FIGURES
! BETWEEN 1909 AND 1909
hides COmplainers as He Re-
counts What He Regards as
the Improvement.

~ Falls lMdss') RePoltel iheE
% IL takes all a man can earn to
an soul and body together, and there
no 10Y in living. These earnest COM
.aipers can back up their statements
n such solid and uncontrovertiblo ar
-rments as pork, 20 cents pound; eggs,
IA eeuts dozen; butter, 40 copper bits
i, scant sixteen ounces; milk, s or
rnre cents q quart; beefsteak. as high
i .he marketman's s conscience allows
i Nm 10 charge. When it comes to cloth
ise. millinery and shoes. the exhibits
n The case are equally impressive
irantiue the truth of these assertions,
:bs fact remains that the reason II is
a hard for the average man TO keep
i;s head above water is because what
rpre once considered luxuries are now
eouuted stern necessities, and the cause
for the general run OF married men s
early silvering or loss of their hlrsute
adornmeuts is the struggle to maintain
. fbeir families in the eXtravagaDt man
nor they have acquired. If people were
content in this year OF grace with what
they used to offer family prayers over
three times a day not few household
. ers might be able TO lay up n quantity
. Of shekels against a rainy day, instead
of growing stopped. cranky and dccrepit
over the necessity of cashing Traits on
the bank of futurity, which, as we all
know. demands usurious rates OF in
icrest.
Their Eomely Diet.
In the old days families thrived flour
nhed and attained honor, fame, dollars.
tonteDtment, comfort aud respect on a
imple diet composed largely of such
hehly filing but cheap articles as
. L.,n n.l nAt n1I loo
soups, bread, potatoes, pork, hsh, pot
lousts, stews and host of other savory
satables which were low in price, but
nduired more skill and time to prepare
properly than the modern housewife
sares 10 give. Are we satisfied with
such diet now9 No, sir, never. Now
We turn up our noses at anything less
/ than sirloins, ice cream, mushrooms, etc.
Ne demand fruits and vegetables, not
10 season, when plenty and cheap-then
I've don { want them-but out of season
|Ehen il takes a connoisseur to tell the
Inference between strawberry and to-
/ rato If eaten without the evidence of
|he eyes-then il is we insist upon hay-
Ing them. and we pay the piper accord
|ingly. No wonder the grocery bills for
ID family make the man of the house
t TOW pale round the gillsl In between
lines we must consume siXty-cent q
|ponnd chocolates and ice creams, sun
/ laes and sodas. Why marvel that it
|tpsts much money TO keep our internal
/ apparatus in such state that we IN.
| |.ritably cultivate the fashionable dis.
/ tases of appendicitis, adenoIds and so
|enY The high prices of food would not
|irouble us were we content TO subsist
. as our good old granddaddies did. OF
course, we are not content to do this
and nobody wants 10 give up the pres.
\ tni-day heshpots and go back TO the
old times, but having decided that we
want the good things of this present
day, let us pay for the said blessings
cheerfully and let it go at that. bet.
Ter fifty years of Europe than cycle
of Cathay.' is it not so7
Unless We are ready TO 90 back TO
wearing clothes such as the makers of
history did ii were wiser not TO harp
SO much on the matter of cost. Years
ago a man got new suit when he need.
ed il and wore il summer and winter
till il simply refused 10 longer hang TO-
. gether. Now be has TO get suit for
business, one for around the house, for
NAL occasions, informal occasions, vaca'
tion, spring, summer. fall and winter
ed the Lord knows what all. Ger,
hlnly the Gibson man OF today is q
decidedly better looking specimen than
| vas his ancestor Of homespuns and hob
nail boots, and is much pleasanter "a
contemplate; but you can Z put on style
without paving for IT, and as long as
We must have furbelows what is the
sense of complaining because one can I
get them by the simple act Of wishing
Women s Clothes Changes.
In women s clothes the difference be,
tween then and now rs so very marked
mat no odious comparisons need be
made. II costs much more TO keep the
modern woman in hair rats, massage
creams, perfumery, etc, than it did 10
eIothe, shoe, hat and glove her grand
mother, and she is decidedly expen,
slye albeit IL charming luxury. " Needles
and pins, needles and pins. when a man
msrrles his financial troubles begin,
LOT 1t costs all he can rake and scrapl
70 Keep his wife looking as we'll as the
@ner ladies on her visiting list, aud
s'en then he is probably reminded al
itast once a day that she "hasn' Z q
nngle. decent thing 10 wear The
Sme is true with The children. No
II Sdy short of a millionaire has any
rsness TO raise children. They cost !;
TI fortune, every one of them, ant
Iee suicide has very tangible apC
'ssonable excuse for being
and so it goes throughout the whole
rde OF existence. Who wants II
oolner with irewood, washtubs. kero
syae lamps. wells, etc, nowadays9 Now
w poorest day laborer rcvels in elcc
,leity, steam heat, marblcd tile bath
'vOMs, hot and cold water apparatus
WoNer baths, washing machines, etc
dyu can Z have these things on air, anC
you spend money on them there il
much less on board, naturally Now
A. haVe lace curtains, Oriental rugs
ss;gond rings, automobiles and all TN
i'm Of goods and chattcls that max,
III no. worth nvlng-aDd accordingly ex
t4ave We have to maintain bunga
i;or, aud motor boats. take long vaca
hs hssss and 90 abroad for our health. w,
dsas. regular appointments with tn,
II dsssWst, tho doctor. the masseuse, tn,
Z trs.aog master and all the other insti
arpas which add TO our knowledge ant
hssrsirance and we'll being, if not 10 on
TI;Ilness. We do habitually thing
dss,a were never dreamed Of by on
'ssr M old forbears.
ws,ls don { like quite so much bar
ersss elthor, as fell TO the lot of on
ouur,s.u,anddies, and instead Of teachin,
4 I an rt'sSes sH and our children tho grand oil,
M " doing without, we arc brougb
4 "a, % think that nothing is loo oao,
II w. and that if we don't gather Il