Bisbee daily review., 1919-12-24
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 the average family of the United States. This informing and interest ing fact is brought out by figures of | the average expenditure of families in 30 selected cities compiled by the United States Department of Labor and published in the department s monthly review.
 | The average family in Bisbee spends more money in a year on mis- cellaneous items than does the aver age family of any other city, the fig ures show.
 From this it is learned that the average family in Bisbee is more healthy, more generous toward pa. triotic causes, is afforded better edu- cational opportunity, is more pros porous. and is supplied less entertain ment than the average family of the other cities. ra
 To prove this the statistics secured in Bisbee on the various miscellan, eous items compared with those of other cities it is shown that: 1 The average family in Bisbee spends in one year $310S for physi- clan, surgeon and loculist, while the average family in such cities as Huntsville, Alabama, Richmond, Vir- ginia and San Francisco. California, is more than $35 year. | The Bisbee family gives s22.10 to- ward patriotic causes, while Min neapolis, New Orleans, Wilmington, 1 Chicago and Denver gave less than $6 per family Bisbee's contribution per family Is the largest of any of the 30 cities.
 For educational purposes the local family spends S22.52 year which is more than the family of 26 or the other cities spend.
 If the income tax is indicative of prosperity Bisbee is the most prosper ous of the 30 cities. The average family pays 38 cents year in pay ment of that tax which is more than is paid by any of the other cities. Atlanta, Georgia, is second to Bisbee in payment of the tax, with 22 cents per family.
 Although Bisbee spends more mo ney in a year on amusements it has less entertainment than any of those other 30 cities. The family here spends $2S.44 a year. for entertain ment, of which $1436 goes to the movies, a sum paid into the theaters here greater than that of any of the other cities. San Francisco spends $2.37 a year for excursions, the fam fly in Bisbee spends nothing. New York pays SPOT for concerts and plays, Bisbee pays $1.92. In the latter amusement the Bisbee family spends more than the average American fam fly.
 To the undertaken goes from the local family $256 a year which is the American average. Only $1.46 year has been spent for liquor while Bos- ton spends SIP. Bisbee is heavy smoker for $24.49 year goes to the local tobacco man, while the average American family spends nearer $l5.
 Bisbee works as hard as the other cities with an average of $1.45 a year | for tools which compares favoraSiy with the other cities.
 1 The moving man in Bisbee should be as prosperous as the man in his pro fession of other cities because the 1 family here spends the average amount in a year of $267. On this | expenditure the American family seems to agree, the figures showing that in every city a sum more tha4i S2 and less than $g is spent for talk ! ing furniture from one house to an other.
 The money expended in Bisbee for laundry sent out is below the average laundry bill of the compared families. Just as Bisbee falls below the other aties in this item it takes a tre- mendous lead in the annual purchase of soap, spending $16.14, while the na- tional average is closer to $10.
 As much talking on the telephone is done here as elsewhere, the annual bill per family being $4.S0. which equals that expense in the families of other cities.
 Another indication that Bisbee is more prosperous than other cities is evidenced in the annual expenditure for automobiles, motorcycles and bi- cycles which is $6S62. This is higher than the expense of the average fam fly any where else in America for that purpose, many of the cities fal- ling below $10 a year.
 For servant and day wages Bisbee spends $1119. The average in other cities is approximately $5.
 That Bisbee is taking care of It's