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Show HOW TO REDUCE THE HIGH COST. " One of our exchanges offers a remedy rem-edy for the high cost of living, which provides for every woman making her own bread, and presents this suggestion: And if all the housekeepers of this country were to make their own bread for a month it is safe to say that the price of baker's bread would come down. While a well organized co-operation among consumers would soon regulate reg-ulate the abnormal prices on most commodities. If the people generally gen-erally stop buying eggs, sugar, potatoes, or any other product that aviates to utterly unreasonable figures, there will be no need of an embargo, with the internal and international complications resulting. re-sulting. Eggs, sugar, potatoes and other products make up a very big part of the living of the average family. What is to take the place of the eggs, potatoes, po-tatoes, etc.? What, in food products has not aviated? There is one possible solution and that is economy in every home. With the American people accepting a less extravagant table than has been demanded de-manded by their wants in the past, and by their doing away with unnecessary unneces-sary wastes, this country could enjoy life on half the present consumption of foodstuffs. Avoid waste and luxuries, and the price of foods will drop. |