Show FOOD PRICES OF LONG AGO Parisians on Record v Paying Large Sums fer Ordinary Articles off of-f t i Sustenance l N While the French newspapers echo t wtb complaints about the high food 1 prices u statistician has figured out f that things were not so very cheap In fit + a a the good old limes cither Milk lulceu are pretty stationary now l r throughout tht year Two hundred t t jtars ago the Iurtaliitis i had to pay three times more for milk In winter it than In summer and the average price f 11 of u quart of mill was about night routs r Toward the end of the eighteenth r century 1arls paid 11 cents per quart for milk In the French country dis c I ttlctij the price wins six cents One hundiort anil thirtyrive years ago r h ti Y 1i only the ilch co Cad afford to eat but t + F a terIn winter ho average price being f + one dollar a pound Kggs were cheaper tql Ft cheap-er than they aio now but llkefwlse hhh Im c much smaller In the year 1800 tho price of turkey In Paris was between t i i I eight and ten dollars a hend according a accord-ing to sjzo Rice was 15 cents n ° pound I Most of the food Is cheaper i now In the big cities than in the good 1 ° old times lu the middle ages only t 31F I1 princes UnijoiJ to aspire to eat oranges which Were ono dollar apiece during I s the height of tho season 1 |