The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-05-18

the mental strain must have been
terrific-and did more actual labor
every day In carrying a rifle and
marching than 1 do in a week, and
slept out doors under a blanket-all
on diet that thes average tramp Of
Hey He did Mui this Epu fof four years, and
If the sanitary conditions had been
decent would have returned well
and strong as many man did
Fe3er and didn't ss run Men 1oV Who d dSp ssS
things have something in them that the
men back East have lost.
call II the romantic spirit or the
pioneer spirit and say that man who
has 1t won't care whether he's living
Maine or California and that whateves'
the conditions are he will overcome
them.
know that we three would have lived
on almost rice alone as the japanese do
before we'd have cried quit. That was
because we were tackling this problem
not as Fasteners but as Westerners,
not as poor whites but as emigrants.
Men on a ranch stand for worse
things than we had and have less Of a
future to dream about.
So repeat that to my mind the house
details don't count here for any more
than they did in the lives of the original
New Highlander settlers, or the forty
miner, or those on homesteads or in
Alaska today.
However, I'll put them in and Ill take
the month of May as an example,
ttst NIIolltn after 4 was mace FOREMAN
They are as follows:
Oatmeal H.
Corn meal. 10.
About one-tenth barrel -four, IS.
Patatoes, .35.
sugar 40
White beans. .16
Pork a. I'''' 't'
Nolasses IN
Onions %
Lard 90
AnnIes. "a
S6da etc "A
Soan %
Cornstarcb IN
Socns eb.IIs *
Egos *
B1fter' III
Mil
Maafs So
raj cn
6i ish' % w.
yn,,st o,I,oz ne
1Ea asr CaNeS 90 NO.
C 1IoSLi e Usi' ne
Tatai 90
lotal' SE''o'
This makes an average Of three
uOudrS anu nineteen cents a week.
With fiuctuation of perhaps
twenty-five cents either way
Ruth maintained this pretty much
throughout the year now. IT Tell on
little In the summer ana increased a
little In the winter: It's Impossible 10
give any closer estimaie IMAM TINS.
Even inns Inonlh many thHlss were
used which were le1t over from the
week preceding. and, on the other nand,
some thlnSs on tnlS llst IKE nloldsseS
and sugar ana cornstarch won't to"ara
reducing the total OF the month 1ol-
lowing.
This left: say A.F0 week Tor such
small incldentais as are not accounted
Tor here' Dut cnleny Ior sewing HlaIerIdi !,
bargains In cloth remnants ana such
things as were needed towards the re
pair OF our clothes as Wen as Tor such
new clothes as we had to buy from time
TO time:
l thlnk we spent more on SHOES imam
we did clothes, out Ruth. oy PatrohlZlllg
the sample shoe SHOPS ai~ayS came
home with a 80 or u pair tor Wnlch she
never paid over y. ana sornetllhes as
low as Sl5o.
Inc poy aio DousnL Ou[ snoGs d. We
same IeuuCIon az jam M upI so S 80
| gave our nelsIiuSSlS ms III ai ~, 80
mem save soou many uoii''S III Lille
! way 49,, , 1900
On the wnotG; uile So PeT IpnI,eS aS..S
5000 buyers lney never iooheu dnedu'
but bought onIy Wheh tney were ia
urgent need ana then pought az the
| cheapest price regardless OF quallty.
They would pay 81 and $3.50 for shoes
! that wouldn't last them any time at all.
Whatever Ruth bought she considered
| the quality first and the price after
wards. Then. too, she often ran across
| something she didn't need at the time,
| bIIt which was a good bargain: she
S,o,,l5 hnv this and nut II away,
Sic Vas able tn huy mani things
which were ont of season for half what
| ~ 800 tbinvs would cost sly months
S ~ ~ .-og S,erv dificIIIt to make on-
lsaLLr. c. tie odvan.age Of This
nels..oois sc .hair hitp5nees cost tbaIn
pIaclce' anu In 5eiiar
many d SOTu ~ .d,,,n.a,a Of o,,r
we dIsO Hdu 1Is 80, 70 49, go
nelghpors III hlLTmthe IrSS aUoraee nep
Cdle VI Cui - sio,-anIy " Wool,
was careless ana sloEehly. IN d VIZ VIZ
new sui Woulu pe sPo'Ieu WIZ"
grease wrlnkleo ana an OuI % sn nfao,
he never tnousHr VI - SraH5 a. -, reF,,Iiv
ing II OF vi .oa - a. Tbe 1,o,,,on
when throI t3 49, tbeir own cIotbes
NJ ~ oiso trIe If their shoes
they mlght snlne the t , 1ne 90 III,ti;
. ~ 800 IN and cracked
In this way their new clothes soon