The Topeka state journal., 1919-11-08
MRS. JOHN LLOYD BAGBY, 1928 buchanan

Mrs JO1N LO4O bAGD4, 1870 DuCHdHdu
street, Topeka
This is not a Serve Just enough use
what is left, feed the rest to the chickens"
letter, but general statement of an aver
age housewife.
Every home has its own problems. We
depend on our garden for vegetables in
season and to store for winter. Perishable
garden products are canned. The surplus
corn is dried and it beats store corn.
We can fruit (have 400 quarts of canned
stuff in cellar) and watch for leaks In
Acid fruits and fruit juices are canned
in hot weather. and my fruit buffers and
and are used fresh. (They wouldn't keep
anyhow
we watch for the special sales in our
stores for soaps, food and clothing; also
patronized the government food sale and
made substantial saving.
A flock of chickens has furnished 1s4
dozen eggs this year, has given us plenty
of ..fries'' and a nice little flock is left
TO help us thru the winter.
Our coal was ordered in July at summer
prices and we have used a 'watchful wait
ing policy" in everything. And the wolf
still growls.
T. MARTIN, 1000 Topeka Blvd, Kopeka-
The high cost of living is not confined
to one cause alone. but a complication of
unnecessary regulations, which should not
exist in times of peace.
AS we all know we are paying double
the price for sugar that we did during the
war and it is hard to get that. Milk has
jumped to 10 cents quart, while pastures
are better and Grain is cheaper We & are stu stili
withstanding the decline in the price OF
flour.
price of hogs. yet we must still pay the
same high prices for lard and pork, like
wise many other necessities too numerous
to mention here.
believe the railroads also have their
share of responsibility for the high cost
of living for charging unreasonable ship
ping rates. also for not providing ample
TRANSPORTATION.
Some of my friends took an overland
trip from Topeka thru Oklahoma during
the peach season and when they returned,
brin ging some of the fine peaches with
them they said that there were hundreds
rotting for the lack of suitable and rea-
sonable shipping facilities. ] could not
help thinking how much good those
peaches could of done If they could have
been sent to the many needy families who
must do without fruit because they could
not afford to paE-*he high prices.
The prosperous class of people are also
responsible to large extent for the high
cost of living. because they pay the prices
without a complaint and buy what they
If they would only stop to consider that
It is not so easy for those who are not
prepared to cope with such unreasonable
prices and all classes unite in protest
with a sincere determination to check not
only profiteering but we might rightly
SO much suffering in our land OF plenty
| in times of peace.
will help to rectify conditions / might
| suggest that 1t be put before the people in
| a simple form so that they can under
stand its meaning for l believe the people
have just as much right to know what the
government is doing as well as the presi-
| dent and his cabinet if this government
| is to be for the people and by the people,
and perhaps they could be of some as
| sistance in solving the problems that would
restore normal conditions and relieve the
high cost of living.
MRS. EAfMA sTITT, 434 locust Street.
Topeka
We must produce more. We must do in
! tensive, if not extensive farming. Most of
homes have from one TO two lots. On a
| place of this size you can keep six hens in
| a small park They will more than repay
| you in eggs thru the summer; then when
| cold weather comes and they omit laying,
eat them. and in the spring go to the ex-
| tensive farmer and get six more pullets.
| In this park you can set one good cherry
| tree Which will furnish from forty to sixty
| quarts of cherries. -Four hills of rhubarb
| can be placed along the renee. and IL watch
1 ed closely will furnish alb one cares to
| can. Lots of tomatoes can be grown on
/ a small spot of ground if you Will make n
! trellis for them, fixing the vines up as you
would for grapes. You should have your
! trellis about seven feet high. The first
| tomatoes will ripen close to the ground.
Then prune your vines from the bottom as