| Show If HOW THE POOR LIVE Th department of commerce and la labor labor latar bor tar has Just Issued a bulletin prepared by b S E Foreman in which the conditions condi conditions conditions of ot the poor M as rf the Ule meth methods methods I and coat o t nf oC living ar are ant very tr Inter Interestingly lUng net Het forth A Ac the tb bull bola of o this report the Ille condition In which 19 10 tam fam families tams inea III were er lr to l Incomes from thene sub listed Were tare from fr n I lO O a month upon which a w died tor or c r herself litH I Six Fix ix children lo 10 f t Ji rt f M t I 12 11 a 1 week tuk k fur for ihn rho IHal h udY i f fan taI ii i A that ranged from tour four our to ten in number num number ber r From uch Ilich Income lat i It was Wal necessary lI ry to 10 p Wy a rent and provide food fuel tuel and clothing and In Ibo be table that accompany pany tJan the Ih report it 1 le la shown that thy thu ewt eat of ot food tood for tor the Ih these families varied from front tM to tU a II week reaching f JU aUG only In rates cues where tome some of ot the chit chil children dren had reached an earning power In Inthe till the bulletin are found Him some Interesting I deductions that are aff held to be generally true 1 That iiii au a husbands bu handl consume a like of r fool food That It T 00 per pcr ent a ae 31 much food tood as ea the husband 3 0 That a Ii child from Crom 11 to H If years arll of DC age iff ag consumes consume 94 90 loer i cr cent UH as much muth food lood an ne the husband f f 1 What That rha I a child from 7 1 to 10 tara of age consumes 75 76 i per cent as oa much food as us the husband t L That u Ii child from four tour to elx six years yearn of age Inclusive consumes 40 t per cent tent as ItS much muth food an Ill the husband t 6 4 That a child thre Ihre years year of ot age or under consume H U per Iter cent a as 81 much food as the husband For the tho living of ot these families near nearly nearly ly Iy W ho ner cr cent of at the total living ex cx were er confined to 10 the purchase of ot bread mid and mont moat alone the Hie bread being bought from the bakery generally nt II r rents rent a h I laC af because of 01 the of oC to 0 much furl ti to do the taking bilking it at ithome t home More than half halt ih the families made use uie of stale bread ai nt a it of ot 24 2 cents centa to te J cents a loaf loat In the records record reco d only three of at the families had halt made use ule of CI chicken aa IlS food dur during durIng durIng ing the long period under which the Iho Investigation was 88 made madl and Ind five the of ot the th families made no purchase pf t eggs whatever and numerous weeks pasted passed in ht some of ot the families when no but bul butter butter ter tor whatever made mad use of ot while the total expenditure of ot 16 families for fruit was 1409 In making up this comparison of ot the cost of at methods of ot I living among the poor all families where Intoxicants In the form torm of or beer or whisky were wore used uld were carefully cardull avoided so 0 that the Ille expenditure might show shw w the conditions condition under which poor families lived when the tM Income was sea al carefully and actually exit tided the necessaries of ot Ufe This report which forms Corms a largo large por portion pOrI I tion o ot of a book of ot considerable Is 18 an n Interesting r f she n v lOf ef efforts forts tort of o poor Ivor people to provide for tor their families under the present conditions of ot of the tho high cost of ot living in this coun country countr try tr w |
