The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-12-04
FRILLS CAUSE
LIVING To SOAR
One Who Has Fed Many at Low
Prices Tells Of Experience

Chicago Dee. i.-rhere is at least
one young woman i'm Chicago who de
clares that there "ain't no such ami.
NAL" as the high cost of living Peo-
pie have simply taken the old fash
ioned wolf-whiCh our fathers had
such difficulty in keeping out of doors
into the house, hired couple of NJ
PENDANTS To keep its claws polished
and its teeth filed, bought it a cut
glass bowl Ia drink from. tied a bunch
Of red and yellow ostrich plumcs ON
It's tail ana "A purple ribbon about its
throat, hired a ragtime orchestra 10
keep il always growing and now
spend much of their time in shudder-
INK at this monster Of their own Gre
alton.
The Young woman is not "A theorist
Six days a week she feeds an average
of 1000 people-fWnishing plenty of
good food, well cooked-at an average
charge Of less than twenty cents -
meal She pays rent for several big
rooms in "A building inside the loon,
maintains corps of more than TWEEN
~ cooks. bakers. carvers and attend
ants buys everything for spot cash
and provides an exceedingly comfor-
table living for her family-incmding
the upkeep of IA touring car and an in
creasing bank account.
Just by way of demonstrating that
the mere cost Of food suppies-minu
charge accounts. delivery wages, bad
debts, ragtime, tips. telephone orders.
wastefulness ana other luXuries-is
not the awful menace To family sol
vency it is often painted, here are half
"a dozen sample meals served by this
domestic economist, together with the
price charged for each:
For % cents: Roast beef. mashed
potatoes, home-baked apple pie, pint
bottle of milk.
For II cents: Corned beef hash, veg
"tahle salad. cup Of coffee. with cream,
raisin cake.
For % cents Tcndcroin steak Ger
man fried potatoes. pot of tea. Parker
house rolls, butter.
For - cents: Pork and beans, bottle
Of milk, bread and butter.
For is cents: Pork chop, mashed po-
tatoes, cup of coffee graham muffin
with honey.
For % cents: Halibut steak, tomato !
salad corn bread pint of milk.
Unfortunately generous helping |
good cooking, ana hot cakes cannot |
be demonstrated i'm cold type, but must |
be- taken, if not on faith, on the tes-
imony of those who have proved them
10 their own satisfaction
Quite without any scientific inten-
ion beyond that of earning her own
wing this young woman is one of
perhaps hfty people in Chicago who
nave demonstrated that what people
edlly complain of when they join the
general and dolor0us chorus is the
'ost nf elaborate surroundings hand
oIne napery, attentive service, waste
u buying and using food products,
,nd everything which makes living
.asy and soft, which saves personal
Mort aud attention.
10 housewives i'm general the econ
mist of the cafeteria announces her
modest conviction that every family
roubled by the cost of living should
start the work of re-
renchment by making all its own
ana pastry In no other
ind of food is the possible saving SO
rcat. while the home bread and pie
'akci may also be better assured of
he purity of her raw materials and
ne cleanliness of their preparation.
The head of the family is also gent
y Informed that he may help out The
amily cXchequer by learning to carve
properly. by unskiddful and careless
arriving "A large percentage of costly
heats is wasted or at least sent back
- the Kitchen to be possibly reduced
u hash. In a cafeteria, for instance,
u expert carver will serve seventy
we patrons from a single roasted
am, giving each an abundant help
lg, while one less skilllul will have ,
othing left after sixty have been
crved but "a pile of odds and ends.
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