Show TWENTYSEVEN CENTS A DAY Many Men Manage to Live Well On That Amount Oh yes there are plenty of felloWs in this city who lIe well on Zi cents a day sold a dialog room owner to a ashing ton Star reporter The lunch man has been in the business for years and knows what he i5 saying Ill tell you how they do It They get up In the morning and wIth 6 cents go to I1r 3cent lunch room TherQ they procuro a IUP of coffee and a sandlch each costing 3 cents or something some-thing of that sort lois Is sutficlent for them At lunch tlmtJthey visIt the 3cent places again and with n pIece of pie and a glass or milk are contented until din nero That i5 n totaf of 12 cents At din I nor they go to the regular lunch or dining rooms aad eat themselves happy on h 1 cents At a number of regular dinIng I rooms In the city II dinner carr be bought for 15 cents and wilt bi a good one too I It will consist of a soup and bread one meat and one entred two vegoables apiece I a-piece r IQo or other dessert anti a cup of tea or coffee But here these sharpers I do thf lunch room proprietors 15 ln another an-other way They have become so expert I at the business that they know when each I dining ream Is I to have a certain dish for dinner and therefore they have their pick of meals and other things 1 remember remem-ber that I used to serve chicken on a certain cer-tain day r soon found that these fellows were getting the best of me All or them would visit me on chicken day and with their 15 cents would get a good dinner The next day their would disappear and would shoW up at tho dining rooms of some other man or course I couldnt stand the expense of this kind of busIness and 1 disarranged the entire proraIrime at the young fellows by not having any regular bill of rare for every daytn the week as most dining rooms have I lost some of this trade but In doing so I think 1 made money These 27cent fellows can scent Ice cream for days ahead and will be on hand They are never suspected of their shreVd ways Cause most oC them dress well and hold good positions For all 1 know they may do this to save money I expect however that they simply save to spend in dross and maklng an appearance I appear-ance in other ways where their style will show to advantage I |