The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1914-10-10

the day will soon come when we will
nave those things, not necessarily for
Eehe sake, Of convenience, but to give
TO- the poorer man the same chance
TO travel as the rich, man. In Europe
q man who is down on his luck can
travel on the same train with, the mil
l1onaire at about sone-fourth cost.
Extravagant in Many Ways.
The firesin an ordinary eight-room
house in this country use about SIX
Or eight tons of coal annually. Over
the sea and in the same climate not
more than one-haf that amount will
be used: Here a scuttleful Of coal
goes to cook a small dinner, there a
double. handful does the same work. ::
|35| For p couple of generations we
smiled at the. picture of foreigners
displaying their sausages and wearing
g. sort OF white shirt apron over their
clothing. Within the last decade we
have discovered that these aprons are
not only good. things, but that for the
sake Of cleanliness they are absolutely !
necessary. ~ =" g: ~: =. : - (.
=, The Chinese and Japanese manage
to live on dried fish and rice and
Grow tat and happy. We decline
these dainties and insist on the sirloin
steaks. The high cost of living will
teach us something different, and then
we will learn that .sausages, dates,
dried fruits Of all kinds and many
| other articles of diet are mighty good
and cheap. ,----.G - = -, z :
Our prosperity r has been So great
and our: great country has been so
overf1owing with the good things Of
the earth that we have squandered
eatables In a. most astonishing man.
| ner. We raise the most and the best
|corn in the world, but we feed most
OF It to beasts yet only recently the
united States government, in an en-
deavor to reduce the cost OF living,
sent out many thousands of PAM
phlets showing how it is possible to
Of that degraded corn some dainty
dishes. It may be centuries, but
Americans Will eventually get down to
more or less OF a corn diet lFss isf S
! This country is doubling it's popula-
tton every hundred years. It does not
take long to figure on just what length.
| Of time will pass before the states
| cannot possibly supply what we want
and what we :waste-the waste will
have to stop. 49,. o,.4s, s....s. ,..s jss
! Learning How to Use Tobacco. 4
| Americans have smoked more CT
gars than any other. nation in the.
world but they have learned only
during the last generation to do as
the orfginatorst Of tobacco have been
doing for centuries. When you see
an italian eating rnacaroni in GER
tain way you may be sure that is the
4 best way to eat It,. Centuries Of ex-
perience have. taught him the lesson.
+ Winery 90 to Cuba you see almost
teverya man walking around with q
cigaret hanging from his. lip. Is No.
lpfpes and few cigars, for most OF
1 the cigars 11adesin Tuba: are sent to-
other countries. The. natives have,
learned from experience that cigarets
are better in every way-that is, the
| Cuban cigaret, undoctored and made,
! WITH rice paper. The paper cannot
EbeS objected to because 1t Is less In
furious than similar quantity OF
/ leaf, tobacco, and the tobacco is the
same you see stuck into pipes and
made intos mmense cigars One orr
binary cigar will make from five. to
1 ten ordinary cigarets.s Recent scien-
tific and chemical experiments have
shown pure cigaret is less harmful
than a. pipe or a cfgar-t11 is,s re-
member the scigaret made OF tobacco
which has not been treated In any
manner except to be- soaked III water
4 to make 1t milder. ALI these things
the original smokers have known for
1 q long time, but Americans have Just
j about arrived at the same conclusion.