The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-09-06

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Mummery lives in the Walworth
district His home is on the top
floor of a tenement building.
Has Three Rooms
There are three rooms-two bed
rooms and a room the family uses
as a kitchen, dining room and sit
ting room. 1t is in the latter his
children study their lessons every
night after supper.
we rented the fiat before the
war" Mummery explains. I'VE are
lucky to have it.
Under the law. the landlord
cannot put us out. so long as we
pay our rent. and he can't get over
20 per cent more than we paid be-
fore the war.
Most landlords nowadays. when
they get an unfurnished fat va
Gated. put a few things in it, call
it furnished, and ask almost any
price they want. And they can
put you out almost any time they
wish
Our landlord installed in our
fiat a coal stove and also a gas
stove with a penny-in-the-slot CON
nectiOn for our gas supply. We
pay him nearly SO a week.
In case 1 get sick, the borough
will pay my wages for six months.
II anybody in my family takes i'll,
we get doctors and medicine I'M
der the national health act. II we
need dentists we get them free
through the London county coun-
ell.
The nine shillings Qess than s2)
that I keep for myself, I use partly
in keeping up my dues in clubs
that pay benefits in case Of Illness
or death.
Now I suppose you wonder what
we eat. Well, here's about the
way it runs:
''Breakfast-Tea. bread and cleo
margarine
Noon Dinner-Meat. greens or
cabbage. potatoes, tea.
Five O'clock Tea-Bread, oleo-
margarine. tea.
Eight O'clock Supper-Bread,
cheese. tea.
MY wife uses three or four
pounds OF tea a week costing one
shilling and four pence 900 cents
a pound. We have about eight or
nine pounds Of sugar a week at ~
pennies about Is cents a pound.
when we have meat 1t is bacon,
or mutton or sometimes beef at
one shilling and four pence a
pound. We get greens at a penny
ha'penny approximately 3 cents
a pound.
Potatoes don't cost us much
We get three pounds for tup-
pence about cents). We need
about five Ioaves Of bread a day.
They are small loaves costing Az
pence about 9 cents each. And
our rgarine-runnins about
three or four pounds-costs us six
pence (about u cents a pound"
Attend Church
Clothing and shoes for himself
and his family. however. form
Mummery's big problem. He tries
to meet it by paying some OF his
spending money into boot and
clothing clubs. That costs him
about II cents a week.
when he has paid in a certain
amount. he is entitled to boots or
clothing equal to that amount.
But we make ours last a long
time" he says. 81 always can buy
leather fairly cheap. and I repair
the shoes Of ell the family. And
my wife is mighty clever at patch
ing up the clothes"
Mummery, unlike many British
workmen. doesn't spend his spare
time at the pubs" public houses
or saloons. He neither drinks nor
smokes. And he doesn't go to the
movies.
Mummery is religious. He is a
regular churchgoer. And he and his
brood look to the church festivals
for all their amusement.
we go to the concerts and the
services at the Browning Settle
ment. which is near where we live
These entertainments don't cost
anything. and they are pleasant.
They often have lemonade and
cake. and the cost is so small that
anybody can afford It il he has a
regular job"
That, in brief. is how a man is
supporting himself, his wife and
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