Evening Star Newspaper, October 4, 1931, Page 52

14 THE Hard Times Silver L@lg BY KATHLEEN NORRIS. OME weeks ago a woman who lives in a North California rural S cisco new: for a family of six on an allowance of $10 a weck. Her children are half- “two high school, two in in should have a | The distracted appealed to the newspaper, de- |t nding advice as to budgets and bills-of-fare. Her complaint was that #10 a week would hardly buy more than “milk and oatmeal” much less meat and vegetables and desserts, and 0 on, for a family six. 1t I immediately wrote to the newspa- per, answering this woman. It Was u foolish thing to do, perhaps, for hun- dreds of letters poured in about it and most of the writers were angry. One-third of them were angry be- Ifles her family, 350 nights a year. community wrote to a San Fran- | pottage that is the staple; the rich thick aper that she could |soup filled with beans or potatoes or not manage the table expenses |onions or rice, and again the salad bowl, and the sour, delicious bread, and the ! dollar. great cheese. group about the evening table a bowl of | be living over your income in 1960—no " and their teacher had | hot, fresh-boiled potatoes, with plenty | of butter, salt and milk; in England it | income, and yow'll be breaking even in is the less digestible, but more delicious oast and tea or & bit of cake. ward securing just food, not bills of fare and menus, direct their effort ple, cake, bread, canned stuff, delica- tessen foods, are constantly called in. meals, putting money in the bank, and so beginning to work their way out of that poverty that most of us have {?mv\n at one time or another in our ves. My own life held about 12 years of it; 12 years when every ounce of butter and every crust of bread counted, and 50 I am not merely theorizing when I urge younger women to get out of this slavery with all the speed they may. ‘There were no budgets in 1900, when my hard times began—between ignor- ance, youth, stupidity, convention, my father's orphaned half-dozen wasted a long time in learning. * x *x Have Their With the French woman it is the that didn't begin with the saved And the rule always works. In Ireland they give the Live over your income today, and you'll matter what it is. Live up to your 1960. But put aside $10 a month, be ginning this month, and you and your children will be rich in 30 years. Shiftless persons never know “where the money goes to.” Thrifty folks are equally bewildered to discover *“where it all comes from.” | _Ask any really saccessful person, if you don't believe it. For the rest; do T think it is fun to be poor, and never to be able to have caviar, steaks, cream, broilers, al- | igator pears and fruit cake? “We like nice things as much as you with a her or jam, to add variety. Everywhere but in America it is to- | hat the householders 1t is only here that he poorest meals must have meat, soup, alad, vegetables, dessert, every night. t 1s only in America that bakery-made And to my critics, who say that he game isn't worth the candle, and cause they are bad managers, KNOW hat a table can’t b: managed for five | do!” some letter says angrily evi y. nothing of thrift, domestic science, Or | on §10 a week, nor for eight on $15 a | Yes, I know. But everylwoymennulyndt.fie‘ budgeting, hate cconomy and kitchen | week, I can only say that hundreds— | world has her problem—poverty, illness, work and r suggestions from older anq, riche ‘%m other aroused because budgeting, th two-thirds were equally they do understard | are managing their Kitchens on very small sums and they | n't need me or any one else to in- them: they could teach me & two! The letter of & mail- | living in San Francisco, | man's was typical of many. wi four children, too,” wrote able woman. “We are | buying & home, a radio and a gas‘ stove, so that our overhead is exactly $61 per month, with taxes and in- | wrance included. of course, Our table “We have this indom sus s exactly $45 per month and we | live well. Now that all four children | e in school, T have a part-time job hich brings me in $16 a week, but every cent of it, for that wrote about some years saved v you for children n their other meals!” indignantly reat big high school and college, re so delicate they have atment, then they a da in 100, the to If have ir ought to stay home and save school books and shoe leather, anyway.” NOTHER woman, this one in the university town of Berkeley, adds an excellent suggestion We are following the newspaper v about the budgets for poor h great amusement” she es, in a cultivated, clear hand. “My er and I both widowed and with a * % ox int income of $2,400 a year, have e small children to raise and an alid father as an added charge. We ¢ well for eight persons on e constantly having surprites -at the table. Gove nt allowance for persons comes out $120. Of rse we had to better that! But we Are surprised ourselves sometimes at the ease with which we cut it exactly in half i “Does it occur to you as astonishing, this letter goes on. “that the women | who have been protesting, through the newspaper columns, at the idea of a 10-cent a meal budget, so constantly vse the terms ‘menus,’ or ‘bills of fare’ in speaking of feeding their families? Surely these are not words for persons of limited means to use. “Food is what these families need— not menus and bills of fare. There is 1o question here of tempting appetites: there is only the age-old question of Jeeping healthy and alive. We don't uss menus, in our house, we have good. filling, simple food, and the per- son who is tired of milk-toast, boiled potatoes, rice, macaroni, beans, apple sauce, eggs, less gingerbread, prunes, pancakes and bread pudding, is always ivileged to skip a meal” She is quite right. There is t0o much fuss made nowadays about course din- | Ters, in plain homes. A bowl of onion | soup, at a cost of 2 cents a plate, | toasted stale bread, and a baked apple, | form a far more satisfying meal than | ham from the delicatessen, fried onions, hot biscut, tomato salad, sweet potatoes , with marshmallows, doughnuts and cof- | fee, Vae-toni and cheese are a meal. not | pert of a meal. Pork and beans are a meal. A hecavy soup with vegetables and rice in < a meal. Milk-tcast is meal Baked potatoes with bacon e a me ok “HE Europeans are smarter about An TItalian I this t_contempt for woman would fee T the unsatisfying odds d ends of f en American woman calls a meal. A great plate of hot macaroni, with a| 1 ad and & bit of cheese, satis- than thousands of women are doing it, all| childlessness, uselessness, homeliness, Beautiful New Patterns Gulistan Rugs at Mayer & Co. 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