The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-11-06
Householder Finds
Cost Of Living
Risen Above Reach
First Experiepoe In Marketing
After Several Months Brings
Revelations Of Expenses That
Are Narrowing

Hc HdIIUWilU
After stopping at the grocery stor,
and buying a pound Of butter for sew
enty cents, pound Of COTE for thirty
cents, a dozen eggs for one dollar, ant
q piece Of meat for $1.o5, paying til,
old.time nickel to 90 home, and ther
after dinner going down town to .
movie theateT Iand paying "a war tat
Of i've Cents On the 6id thirty cent
ticket, salaried man, who has not had
his pay raised since the High Cost Of
Living began to soar toward almost inn.
possible heights, figured that the
prices were certainly getting beyond
his reach and that shoes for the chill.
dren would be less plentiful this win.
ter, lee cream an unknown quantity in
his home and new suit Of clothes EN-.
tirely out of the question. 3t
IL was the first time he had been
called on TO do personal shopping for
the dinner table for months and he
was aghast as the groceryman, the
butcher and the baker demanded large
sums which almost emptied his pocket
book. ~ - $3.50
wagon Prices Follow
The next morning he went out TO
the vegetable wagon Of the pake gar
idener, determined to buy things cheap
or even IL his helpmate was unable to
effect this miracle. g..
T" How much egg todayf" he asked
oh, sellum one dozen egg one
doilarin ..@@ W. - m
Say, how much you buy egg from
chicken manu- he asked In his purest
pigeon English. @+t Va
ST catchurn three and half eggs for
quarter, sellum three egg quarter
was the bland reply. "Some day no
ketchum egg, hen no make etp.b3 I
The householder decided that for the
time being he would cut out eggs, and
turned his attention to tomatoes. How
muchfD
81 givum you five tomato FIVE
CENTS and he handed over five dimi-
nutive tomatoes which looked more
like red golf balls. He began to choose
some larger ones but the peddIer
promptly informed him that larger
ones would be four for a nickel. And
so it went. fs" " ~
The rapidity with which the gap
between old-time comfortable prices
and those Of today has enlarged has
been astounding and it is still widen
ing daily. go s"'..'. !,
/. Butter, months ago, was forty five
cents a pound, two pounds for eighty
five cents, and when il happened to
60 to forty-fve cents, the two pounds
were sold for ninety cents. Now its
sixty-fve and seventy cents pound
and with the coming possible shortage
of refrigerator space, which is said to
be lacking in the steamers President
and Governor, ii may 90 higher. = -, +
COTE Price Little Changed
Coffee has remained around the same
old price, but it is a lonesome commod-
ity in this respect. 3'l' ,...
The small pieces Of meat which are
delivered at the home at rates which
fairly scare the entire household, make
the cup of sorrow more bitter, are
hardly biteable, and one doesn t care
70 break teeth nowadays for fear that
the dentist may add to his prices for
repairs. ......, : ...-.,.
. When the householder dropped a
quarter in the "'quartern gas meter
the other day the signal hand forgot
to travel as far as formerly, indicat,
ing that the meterman had been around
and changed the speedometer. So it
costs more now to cook the higher
priced beefsteak with its less meaty
portions.
Help Costs More
The cook has received higher wages,
which makes the cost in the kitchen
go higher still, and the washwoman
has requested an addition to her wage,
The yardboy has not forgotten that he
is in line for raise and has had il, de-
spite the fact that the higher cost of
living has fallen upon the householder
who has to buy the eatables for all
three. The attempt to cut down the
supply of ice daily has only resulted
in a waste of good eatables in the ice
box, for the ice melts faster, the box
becomes. warm and the milk at fourteen
cents quart, sours. Even the ice it.
self appears to be frozen less hard than
before, which permits 1t to dissolve
faster. &c.,
p The japanese yard boy the first part
of the year, the one who came by the
day to NOW the lawn, was paid $l.25,
and now he gets $l.75; the washwoman
received ninety cents day and ten
cents carfare, now receives $1.25 and
her meals; while the cook--well, they
are paid as chefs now, not mere cooks.
{ It's ten cents for the daily loaf Of
bread, Instead of the. time-honored five
cents of former days.
About the only daily factor in the
life of the householder which has, not
yet joined forces with the II. Q. Of l..
is the street.car fare. g.. ~,'a".