The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-09-10
COST OF LIVING
VERY HIGH IN
ARGENTINA
Soap That Sells Here for Twen-
ty-Five Cents a Cake is
Sill There.

A cake OF toilet soap retailing at
twenty-five cents in the United States
costs VII in Argentina. South Amer
lea. This is typical OF Argentine
prices generally. They are perfectly
terrific. Supplying, incredible. Drugs
cost three TO four times what they
cost in North America, ordinary tooth
brushes eight cents each, everyday
gloves 81 pair.
fOur-room, steam heated fiat in
good, but not aristocratic part OF the
city, cannot be had for less than $40
a month. A similar fat, minus the
heat, may be had at $3.50. There
are four or five months here in which
heat must be had; and Cardim coal.
practically the only kind on the mar
ket, costs from S2S.l6 to $3.50, some
times a bit more. In the remote
suburbs tiny little boxes of houses
may be rented for $3.50 a month,
without heat or light. Transportation
is cheap. IL he can spare the time,
he can travel twice daily for S4.4O
month. -. "a
Meat is not high. as Argentina is a
meat country. The very fauciest cut
of beefsteak may be had at twenty
five cents a pound. Ribs and rumD
steaks cost seventeen and a half cents
pound, mutton thirteen cents, veal
thirty and half cents and pork TWEEN
ty-two cents.
Shoes Cost SIS n Pair.
A suit which would cost S25 in New
York or Chicago or San Francisco
costs S45 in Buenos Aires. A pair OF
IS or $6 American shoes costs SIS. A /
81 American hat costs between Sc and
81. An ordinary suit OF winter under
clothing costs SO. United States
money. The man who buys his wife
a not oyer-fashionable walking suit
must pay $50 for it. II she is not
too par cular he can get her q bon
net for $50.
II he wants to keep up with the
news each paper costs him four cents.
The price Of u fifteen cent American
magazine is twenty-six cents. The
beer is good, but II costs thirteen
cents a glass A waiter must bring
each glass TO small table and every
time he expects n tip OF four cents.
Whiskey. including the tip, is twenty
two cents glass There Is practi-
cally no such thing as cigar for
less than eight cents. and these are
practically unavoidable. Havana
cigars cost from forty-four cents UP.
Incomes Are Lower.
A citizen Of the United States who
goes TO the Argentina metropolis TO
live, on the same salary lie received
at home, may consider that his income
has been cut in two. and will be fl
nancially wise II he readiusts his ex-
penditures accordingly. Living ex-
penses are higher In Argentina than
in any other country in South Amer
lea.
The average Argentine is not paid
for his work in proportion to what
he haS to pay for his living. A COM
paratycly small number Of men,
mostly cattle and wheat kings, make
huge sums. There is a fair propor-
ton OF rich middle men. 4 great deal
Of the big money the country pro-
duces belongs to foreign investors and
goes abroad.
a salarled man is considered in pos
session OF a good, round income If he
receives $3.50 TO $500 monthly. OF
course. this does not 90 nearly SO
far as 1t would in the United States.
4 first class printer or locomotive
engineer may make as high as S175
Brlcklayers are paid from
$3.50 to 1850 daily, but do not have
work all the time. a carpenter, who
also has periods OF unemployment,
earns from $3.50 to $3.50.