Show the nations Na tlona bread that bread Is justly entitled to be called the I 1 staff of life Is fully borne out by investigations of the united states department of commerce and labor this department made an in v to determine the amount spent for food by a normal laborer family the data obtained front from the families whose expenses wale studied showed the average amount spent for food by a family consisting of husband wife find and five children to be 19 pro year it Is interesting to note how the so BO called normal tim mill lly fly of the average la boier which seems rather above abone the normal in size apportions its money for food ani other necessities nine collais and 20 cents is expended for bread flour and cereals and while the cost of the bread is small compared with that of foods the amount of ments and energy derived from it is large the laborers meat bill la Is the largest of all he spends 50 per year for all kinds of meat and a halt half times as much as for or breid ilia his butter costs costa him about as much as hla his breal bread and sugar halt half as much while about the same sum is spent for potatoes and vegetables as tor for bread thirty eight dollars goes for milk and eggs more afore coffee Is used than tea about 10 is spent for the one and five dollars foi the other jle re ligion charity and tobacco claim near nar ly equal amounts while intoxicating liquors come in for a much lorge share labor organizations get about nine dollars per year while 5 79 is contributed to the support of state and local governments in the form of taxes sickness and death on the average claim 2054 20 54 it is quite ap parent says harry snyder in harper monthly that bread and flour do not torm form a very large item ot of the food ex penso pense of the normal laborer a family as only nine per cent of the cost coat of the food goes tor for bread and 91 per cent for all other food articles |