The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-12-17
HOW TO LIVE on FIFvrEEN CENTS
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II living because it is t burden that
presses down hard upon every home.
With eggs az q price SO high that
Philadelphia women are buying them
direct from farmers and selling direct
to consumers so as TO cut out the too
high profits Of Philadelphia middle
men. who can hope for y
muffin bread and other Christmas fix
iIgS: Nobody wishes tie farmer not
70 receive profitable prices for all the
products Of the farm. For a genera
ton he got only starvation prices,
and IT is only il recent years he has
been receiving prices that gave fair
farm or poultry yard. But the
American people are resolved to cut
down all the cost of high living that
has been imposed by trusts. fairfield
industries, and an undue share to
middlemen. his determination is
the result Of the struggle In every
average home to make both end meet,
1t Is no answer to the demand TO
end monopoly, privilege. and e1tor-
ton to say that it is the cost of high
living that gives the trouble. The
extravaganza of the rich is indeed a
national scandal, but the pressing
problem with the average man is
how to obtain the necessities n
comforts of life with the average wage
out that certain exceptional indiVid-
mails, from motives OF health
or athletics or from some fad, are
enabled to live on a few pennies.
Growing children and men n
women who work need substantial and
nourishing food. and good clothes.
Both are SO high as to create q ma
every effort TO make q dollar go far
Their. Mr.. John Armstrong Ch3loner,
the New Virginia millionaire.
who was a guest Of honor at a bril-
liant reception on Friday night in
Raleigh. is an example of the man
who preserves his strength by a very
simple and cheap diet. He IAN live
on fifteen cents a day-aHd he is a
m~illionaire: Think OF that, Here
is Millionaire C~haloner's theory tina
he puts into practice:
Il have made a discovery by elimi-
nation, and it a made a new man Of
me. The doctors never die It, because
they never found a man who would
be willing to diet himself so assidu-
ously as l have been doing. Prescribe
bread and water twice q day. three
days in the week, then sandwiches
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Well. l suppose the doctors never did
it. because they had no idea that they
| would find a man who would do it.
and they eve tried it.
Jesus gave me the tip. In the
Lords Prayer, it is written: Give Us
bread 1t doesn't pray to give us this
day our beefsteak or our ham. I,
says bread. So You see in the Bible
the prophecy that in the sweat OF thy
face thou shalt eat read IT doesn't
say anything else.
For that reason [ believe in bread
and it is all that I eat with the ho1
water. l use no mustard or butter or
1t. ! eat two five cent lOaveS at q
time, making my food cost me !:
cents a day. The process IS easy te
account for. The bread makes a sor1
Of rnacadanlized road for the alimen.
tary canal. ] never know what in.
digestion is. l don't suffer a particle
One of my girl friends came up today
and said: YOU look twenty pound:
heavier than when I last saw you.
I did not know that I was to see her
You may say what you please ahou
the diet. l have made a wonderful
discovery and it is keeping me young
Why, if the pr~ize-fighterS Knew thi
secret, they might continue tjshtin:
for championship honors At fifty o
siNty.'
If YOU are ready to give up sau
sage and pork and beefsteak and oys
tcrS and the other good things tina
appeal TO the palate. then YOU ma,
some day become a million
lirc yourself on the brea
and water died. Figure the COS
9 Of your food alone Is cents a day. an
how long before You would be 9
EASY street? But is the goal wort
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