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Show Let Us Be Thankful : Are you complaining of the high ost of living? Well, Abigail Adams complained of tie same thing. Perhaps after you ave read jthe following prices quoted rom her letter to her husband, the econd president of the United States, ou will count yourself lucky, however, d be living now instead of In Abigail's i Be. This was Abigail's price Use in 1776: Meat, $1.00 to $2.00 per lb. Corn, $25 per bu. ; Rye, $30 per bu. Potatoes, $10 per bu. , Molasses, $12 per gal. Flour, $5 per cwt ' Cider, $40 per bbl. . Cheese, $2 per lb. , Butterine, $3 per lb. , Sugar, $3 per lb. , In 1779 sugar ro.so to $4 per pound nd tea the same. In 1780 butter sold r $12 a pound and tea for $40. Such were the prices in revolution- ( ry times when we were only trying to any on a war and feed ourselves at ic same tlrao. Now, however our task is greater, 3r wo must not only fight, and food urselves at the same time, but wo lust furnish most of the food for the .Hies, if we are to win this war. Yet, prices today are considerably nver than those which Abigail Adams aid in 177G. If the women in America hoard food, owevor. or if they are wasteful with , in their kitchens, as surely as the un rises in the east, the cost of food 'ill soar wntll we shall repeat revolu- , ionary prices. Let us be thankful that as yet this j as not happened and that by economizing econo-mizing and avoiding waste, and by ! uying wisely, no more and no less aan what we need at a time, we have , . in our power to keep the cost of food orrnally low. oo |