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Show "A Bachelor" says, in a communication com-munication to the New York Times, on the subject of matrimony practically practi-cally considered: "I have a good room, for which I pay twenty dollars a month, with gas and fire. I cook my own breakfast, which consists usually of fresh rolls and butter, with coffee or chocolate, and a couple of eggs or a few oysters, with fruit in season, and, if I choose, a little pickled pick-led salmon, cheese or caviar, as a relish. My breakfast costs me, on an average, fifteen cents a day, an est i- mfttfl which IrmL-a rirlienl.-iMa.li7 Dmil but which any person can verify by trying the same plan himself." This bachelor, however, eats square dinners and dresses well, so that his annual expenditure averages $921. |