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Show HOW THE POOR OF NEW YORK LIVE New York, Dec. 12. How the poor of New York's East Side meet the Increased cost of living Is told in the 2Sth annual report of the Charity Organlzatiou Society which has just been issued. "The general way of meeting the higher cost of supplies," says the report, re-port, "h.is been a serious reduction In the amount and quality of food The people have subsisted on meaf once or twice u week, fresh vegetables have been almost entirely cut out,, while milk and butter have beoa reduced lo their loweet terms This Is not all There has been a tendency toward the Irreducible minimum of bread and Ka and coflee. "Effects of this have begun to be apparent even in the adolts, and un rcr-nourishuient has been noticed as nver before in the children on the streets and in the new families coming com-ing to the society. What the high prices have meant to the poor is epitomized epit-omized in the uncomplaining comment com-ment of a self-supporting widow with little children, a relative of a family fam-ily who had applied for help, who ?.ald that since condensed milk had cone up two cents a can she coul 1 only allow one teaspoon ful for each cup e coffee instead of two, to which they had previously been accustomed. |