The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1915-05-21
No. 20-Donsstle Eeonomy nlu,s

essentials of life and a care
full avoidance of all un-
necessary waste. IN r 8.
Woodallen Chapman.
If it wasn't for the necessity
of eating one could live quite
inexpensive and easily build
up a good bank account.
But we must eat and at pre-.
sent we must pay good high
prices for our food.
1t is quite possible, however,
that we eat too much. Miss
Annie S. Peck, who has won
some fame as a mountain
climber, and, by the same tok-
en-. is no weakling, says.
Anyone can live on 25 cents
a day. 1t is the simplest thing
in the world. 1t is appalling
how much the average person
wastes on food.
For breakfast l make my
own coffee and use evaporated
milk instead of cream. Some
time | have rye bread and pea
nut butter. | have no regular
lunch. Sometimes l eat a cake
of sweet chocolate and &C.
Casionally a banana.
For dinner l make an ONE
let with plenty of milk or have
a bit of spinach or onion.
Shredded Goldfish is very nice
and occasionally l buy a chop
or macaroni.
The advice of Prof. Robert
B. Stoltz of the College of
Agriculture, Ohio state univer-
sity. is;
Eat cheese and reduce the
cost of living"
Economy in the substitution
of cheese for meat, Professor
Stoltzs points out, goes clear
back to a comparison of the
cost of maintaining beef and
dairy cattle. Keeping cows
FOR milking purposes is much
less expensive than breeding
and feeding beef cattle. A
beef animal is of temporary
value only, while a milk-pro-
ducing COW is an almost con-
tinuous producer for eight or
ten years. The recent rise in
the price of bread in some sec
tons, due to the higher cost of
wheat, led scientists of the L.
S. Department of Agriculture
to suggest that the ordinary
household will find it advant.
ageOus to eat more potatoes
and less bread.' They have
computed that on the basis of
potatoes at sixty cents a bushel,
ten cents worth of potatoes
would give the consumer more
actual nOurishment than two
one-pound loaves of bread at
five cents each.
O. H.. Benson, of that de-
partment says, The American
people live largely upon a diet
made up something as follows:
Meat, coffee, bread, butter,
eggs and supplemented daily
by a liberal dose of patent
medicines, while out in the
back yards and orchards are
millions of bushels of healthful
vegetables and fruits, rotting
for want of proper methods of
caring for this surplus.
Buying provisions in quanti-
ties is often urged as true eco
nomy, although there are many
who advocate the purchase of
package goods only, claim
ing that quality and cleanliness
are worth a good deal.
Many people, however, can
not save by buying in large
quantities because their in
comes are small or uncertain.
Il have lived through such a
period of financial difficulties
and know that a special sys-
tenn of marketing is necessary
for that housewife says one
woman writer for the press.
She cannoteconomize by get
ting discounts on big pur-
chases. Her savings must
each come in the little, indivi-
dual things. This woman must
take advantage of the sales
advertised daily. The one who
practises hand-to- mouth econo-
my must either be thoroughly
posted on the market ADVERTISE
ments or visit them daily and
learn first-hand what the best
values are.
In any case personal daily
marketing is of the first i'm
nOrtance The te1eDhOne MIGHT