The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1913-02-08
How Woman With 500 Capital
Earned Good Livinq,

How Woman With 500 Capita
Earned a Good Living.
/ The Woman's Home Companion i
/ ing how woman with 500 capita
can build up little business tina
will yield an income sufficient to sup
port her. In the February snumbel
appears an account of a Mrs. Rus
sell who was left a widow with {
daughter of twenty. When her hus
band died all she had was a debt OF
| $3.50 and a good collection of furni
rure. She borrowed $500 on he1
house furniture and with this capital
she and her daughter started small
lunch room, which is open from ten
in the morning until eight in the
evening. She calls it the "Just-a-
Bite Shop Following is an extract
from the article:
THE first day they opened they
served twenty-five people, between
eleven and two o'clock; six during
the afternoon, and nine for supper;
total of thirty-seyen. The menu for
the first day was:
Il
10c.; chicken pies, Zoe; oyster pat
ties. 20c.; pork and beans, 10c.; PIN
ento and brown bread sandwiches,
&C.; strawberry iunket, 10e.; apple
pie, homemade, &C.; custard pie,
homemade, &C.; coffee, tea, milk or
cocoa, &C.; homemade crullers, Sc.
In counting up, they found they
had made a net profit on the first
day of S3.10, besides what food they
had left over and their own meals
for both of them. The sales Of the
first day amounted in cash to a total
of s10.23.
The second day they served chick
en- soup (made from the stock of the
day before from the chicken pies1,
Dreaded pork chops and sWeet-potato
roll chicken salad. mince pies, cup
.eustard. and bean salad sandwiches.
Their income that day was $14.30,
and their outlay was $3.50. Their net
profit on the second day was 1872.
They found that they averaged about
ten cents profit person, and there
fore, if they served enough, they
could make q very decent income
Commission Government Ferment.
Commission government goes on
irresistibly. Active efforts to secure
this plan are under way in eleven
states. IN nearly every important
city in Chic citizen bodies are plan
ming charter revision ON short ballot
lines, taking advantage of the recent
constitutional amendment which per-
mits cities to frame and adopt their
own charters. This movement has
reached it's most advanced stage in
Cleveland, where unofficial nomina-
tons of charter freehplders have been
made. A bill is also in preparation
to allow any city to adopt any one
of several simplified forms, includ
ing the Sumter City manager yaria-
Jlon
Three cities in New Jersey: Hobo
sz.n, Jersey City and Bayonne, which
failed to adopt the. commission plan
two years ago, will again hold cleo
tons for that purpose at the earliest
date allowable under the law
In New York a bill for a statewide
commission government law with sew
eral options is being prepared by
Municipal Government Association,
for submission to the legislature.
A similar bin will be submitted in
Bills are also being prepared to
give commission government to Fort
Smith, Ark. Charlotte, n c., and
W. Va. Phoenix, Ariz.,
charter is being held up by the gov
ernor because Of apparent legal de-
fects.
In Los Angeles, where a proposed
charter was turned down last month
by decisive majority, the progress
ives and the radicals are attempting
to patch up their differences and /
nave another charter ready in a few |
largely because of lack of publicity |
weeks. The first charter failed !
Ind general misunderstanding as to
what it actually contained.
The Missouri League for cities is |
advocating a bill which will provide /
or commission government in the /
Usual option form.-Shreyeport Times