Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-04-15

me the students do all sorts of things
to help out on their expenses. Three
of them are porters in the thcaters,
one is a night Waterman and others
work in banks and Offices for a few
hours every day. Many teach part OF
the time and some who are musicians
play at night in the cafes, theater 3,
and motion picture shows. Some 20
to the railroad stations and drum up
business for a hotel connected with
the home. receiving one-fourth of
cent for each guest they bring in.
This place is governed by a stu
dents council which settles all mat
tiers of increased cost and other things
relating to the management OF the
establishment.
This home has general restaurant
where about five hundred boys ana
! girls are fed daily. The. meals are
more elaborate than those at the
army barracks, and cost more. The
actual price of dinner is one cent
and a half. and for this is given
soup. meat, potatoes, vegetables and
gravy, but no bread or butter or COT
fee or beer.
nCR1NG my stay l went through
~ the kitchen. The soup was being
cooked in great boilers and on the
ranges nearby food of different kinds
was steaming away. Potatoes were
| boiling, and in one large pot was
stew of beef and cucumbers swim
ming in gravy. ] examined the cubes
of beef in the stew. Each was the
size of lump of sugar, and there
were only three pieces OF meat for
each person. 1 was told that thirty
four pounds of meat are allotted 10
the five hundred meals which are eat.
en- each day. Thirty-four pounds
equal five hundred and forty-four
| ounces, so that each dinner contains
| just about one ounce of meat. Almost
AMI of my readers can eat a pound of
steak at a sitting. but that you'd be
a ration for sixteen of these GROWING
any OF my readers can eat a pound OF
fat are used in preparing the soup,
and that the meat stew is served only
four times week. The manager says
that owing to the high cost of meat
they may have to raise the price CT
the meal one-fourth of cent But
even a cent and a half is too high for
some of the students. and not a few
get the Quakers to help them. AS one
entered the room, there was Qudher
boy from Philadelphia who had meal
tickets before him. He was furnish.
| ing these tickets to such as could not
afford to pay the full sum, making up
the difference to the fraction of L
cent
Among these students were both
boys and girls. l saw one boy who
| had a fresh cut of q sword on his
face. showing that dueling still pre-
walls among the students notwith.
standing their poverty. In oths
homes where the students live. tho
quarters are more pretentious. 1 VIZ
| tied one where each boy has to pay
a cent day for his room alone and
| where, the restaurant serves food 4
+, la carte at from 1 to 2 cents a dish.
| frequented~ chiefly by day laborers, as
| it was too costly for the inteIlectuals
In a third home the students were
cleaning their own rooms and doing
| their own cooking. On each floor was
| a little kitchen where the boys took
| turns in preparing their individual
| meal. "A fine-looking young man of
twenty-five was frying pan OF po
| tatoes when l looked into one of the
kitchens. I was told that that was
| all he would eat for his dinner.
Copyright, 1929 by Carpenters World
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