Show t HOW TO liVE CHEAP I I i Three Meals a Day Can Be Had for low Price i WHAT EXPERIMENTS SHOW I Man Can Live Well at 94 Cents a Day Ho Can Live nnd Have Many Lus uries for 511 Cents Per Day Some Interesting Figures TRIBUNE SPECIAL Washington July 1SThat It Is 1 possible pos-sible to provide three meals a day for a man at a very low figure and at the tame time give him sufficient nourishment nourish-ment Js 1 shown by a bulletin Just issued by the Department of Agriculture on Dietary Studies In Boston and Springfield Spring-field Masn Philadelphia Pa1 and Chicago Chi-cago ill From the experiments re IcorCed the crat of food per man per day ranges from 91 1 cents to 511 cents These amountn cover Just the coat of the food and do not cover the cost of preparation and service nor for such Hems as spices calt pepper and condiments condi-ments Included FINANCIAL FEATURE f The food covered by the amounts stated contained the requisite amount ot protein all the necessary calorie of energy calculated to sustain a man at moderate physical labor The scion tlc phases of the experiments arc not of s much Interest to the average person per-son as the financial features To provide pro-vide a diet that contains enough nourishment nour-ishment at u cost ot 94 l centR per day would be an undertaking that the a rae r-ae housewife would not care to engage en-gage In RESULT OF EXPERIMENT This experiment Is i reported from Springfield Mass whore In February 3002 the students of the Bible Normal college voted to save n sum of money which they desired to raise for a special object by reducing the cost of their table board They had been paying 3 per week for their table board or very nearly 13 cents per day per person which of course included the cost of fuel preparation and service estimated to 10C cents per person per day LearnIng Learn-Ing that It had been found possible to provide D balanced aud nourishing diet for 10 cents per man per day for the raw food they entered eagerly Into an experiment with a diet to cost that amount for food only the cost of preparation pre-paration etc to remain the same as before making the total cost oC the food OH served 200 cents per person or 214 cents Ires than their ordinary diet rTiiero were thirty students Interested In this project and It was continued result that the for six days The was cort was reduced to 94 cents per person per-son per d Y or 0 ofn cent less than the estimate Here Is a sample of their dally menus Breakfast Corn meal mush and top of milk baked beans buns milk and cereal coffee Dinner Splitpea soup and crackers potted beef brown sauce I crisped pOle sopce baked potatoes bread rice with milk I end sugar Supper Brown bread sandwiches with a little butler white bread sand wiche > t with date and peanut filling without butter cocoa popcorn salted It was not an elaborate bill of fare but It was estimated to contain the necessary nec-essary quantity of nutrients and energy en-ergy AT BOSTON SCHOOL A sludy made at the Boston School of Housekeeping was participated in by fifteen women and four experiments were made The first was on the usual diet which averaged 2S1 cents per per con POI day The Becond wan on n diet of medium cost which averaged 231 cents tho third a diet of low cost which brought the average down to 163 cents and the fourth was on n diet or high cost which made the average fil1 cents Below Is ulven n sample rnonU In the diet of low cost which was provided at 1C3 cents LOW AND HIGH COST DIET Breakfast Wheat breakfast food tmclts creamed toast graham muf tins Luncheon Clear mutton stOck soup beet loaf wIth brown sauce steamed 1 brown brood dates and pcanuto Dinner Beef stew and dumplings creamed Lima beaus boiled rice sliced bananas dressed with lemon sauce and powdered sugar The following Is n sample of the high cost diet for which each person paid cll cents 5 Breakfast Strawberries shredded wheat bldcult broiled blue neb potato iballs with parsley dressing popovers Luncheon Frlcaased oysters In crou iitadcs stuffed potatoes peas Roman Holtuco salad with full cream cheese care t Dinner Clear barley soup braised fowl with mushroom sauce boiled rice I fnsparaorus lettuce salad cheese wafers wa-fers orange bomb glace angel cake LI IN PHILADELPHIA I Observations were made In Philadelphia Philadel-phia by the College Settlement nsBo elation and the avorago cost of food per diy per man for tho twentytwo rul1 was 28 conts The unit of food y upply tired w hS one mln and all faml Ics where tho experiments were made Were rcdurfd to that t unit For Instance there a family consisted of n man n woman ore child of 10 car one of 6 rnl oni c 4 yrurs the following table ttlucUo vas made Man 4 > ftI 21 2 KjYotmm 21 meals by OS meal oc man fiula1ont to 17 uld 10 years en meals by OC meal of U jn equivalent to 13 C hlll C years Gn meals by 06 meal of flhin > cqulvulent to 11 Child 1 years ill meals by 04 monl of nUll equivalent to 8 Total number of mials equivalent to7C dxty Equivalent to ono man twentythree unno no result of the Philadelphia expcrl meat showed that the average colored nan got along on 211 cents per day whitE the average Italian pp nt 20 cents I a dy < J for eatables The average cost tto the Jew was 20fi conta to the Ger Ijnan tho same amount and to the Irlsh t nnnn 2SS cents while the averages American spent 25 cents a day for food EXPERIMENTS IN CHICAGO Similar experiments wore made In I th ia vicinity of Hull bouse Chicago and J I the average cost per day per man by I nationalities Is shown ns follows Native Na-tive American 261 cents American of German descent 211 cents German 2JS cents IrIs 2S9 cents English 418 cents Hungarian 329 cents Bohemian Bo-hemian 1C8 cents Scotch 29 cents The cost of the diet per man per day varied In these studies from 168 In the lowest to 41S DU In the highest but In most caic1 the range above or below the average av-erage 2CS cents was considerably within these limits In making deductions from the studies described In the bulletins It Is stated that people In Impoverished circumstances cir-cumstances are not able to buy cheaply for the reason that they must buy In small quantities Where the family has snfllcijnt funds to permit of buying flour by the sack and other staple supplies sup-plies In proportionate quantlcs and where they can go to market and buy their fresh vegetables they are enabled en-abled to save n good percentage upon their expenditures |