Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-12-06
GIRLS SOLVE RIDDLE
OF HIGH LIVING COST
Four Young Dwellers in Ard
more Reduce Price of Lunch
cons to Three Cents
THAT'S BOTTOM FIGURE
When They're Bit Extravaeant
They Pay as Much as
Sixteen Cents

One can easily procure n tasty. nour.
ishinE and really delightful meal" for as
Utue as three cents, according to four
young business women OF Ardmore. who.
no longer content to pay forty and forty
I'VE cents for lunch each day, started a
ilttle lunch room OF their own, where they
provide an entcng menu daily.
The four young women who have solved
the h,sh cost NJ living In a syatematic way
are Caroline Irwin Nan Gallagher. Mary
Francis and Florence Titlow The quartet
are all employed as clerks by firms In
Ardmore. Miss Gallagher who Is reSpou-
slble for the idea. Is employed by the Auto
car Company She said today that the
girls had become tired Of paying high
prices for food and decided to try TO get
their own lunch In a more economical way
Here Ia her own story OF how the problem
was solved
About week ago three other girls and
myself decided that we could no longer
pay forty and forty-hvc cents day for
lunch. so we looked around and discov-
cred that we could use n little gas stove
In the town hall. provided that we paw
for the gas. We all contributed toward
getting our cooking utensils and then we
prepared our first meal
The day after Thanksgiving we cooked
our first luncheon We had turkey and
chicken sandwiches. which we brought
from our homes; bread and butter coffee
with cream and sliced peaches for dessert,
That was tho menu for the nrst day.
and II only cost us really about twenty
two cents for the whole thing or course
leftovers from the home cannot be pro-
cured everv day. after that we laid In
n supply OF things. which included n pound
Of coffee at thlrty-two cents. pound OF
butter--yes. really we had good fresh but
ter, for we appreciated the value OF good
nourishinE food Next we bought two cans
OF condensed cream. at fve cents can. and
two pounds of sugar. This expenditure
drew heavily upon our capital. but the
supplies which we had purchased lasted
us week"
prepared by these three young ladies' con-
tained the following: Frankfurter sau-
sages and baked beans coffee bread and
butter and sliced peaches This meal cost
the young women about five cents each The
sausages cost ten cents an" the beans Ave
cents. and three-quarters OF a cent for gas
and about two cents for sugar. The menu
for another day included lettuce sand
witches, nuts bread and butter. coffee and
spiced pears.
Just as an instance that these young
women believe in variety and plenty of IL,
they had for another meal baked ham and
canned corn. bread, butter. coffee and pears
This meal was one of the most expensive
they have had so far, and IL cost them
each sixteen cents
hON tHtdDlg uO Sbh Attl sure lnhI you
could consistently each and every day get
up lunch that would be pleasing and
nourishinE?" was asked three OF tho young
women as they, bent over their desks dis
cussing their new plan.
"Conservatlvkly about eight cents per
day. That Ia an average, for some days
we get up n lunch which costs us only
three cents, while on other days we have
had our lunch cost US as much as sixteen
cents but anyway that's lots better than
paying forty and forty-fve cents per day"
they said.
other young business women In Ardmore
who are also interested in this new plan
to combat the cost OF living and at the
same time get a meal which will sufficiently
nourish them to continue with their daily
work are becoming interested. and each
day many of them come TO see the four
young women cook and eat their lunch.
The four agreed that they were perfectly
satisfied with their new venture and would
gladly enlighten any one who might be
Interested enough to want to start the
thing on n larger scale. II this Idea was
operated on n larger scale, the young wom-
en- say that II could be done even cheaper
than they are able to do H.