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Show LIVING. In England in 1 G 10. when wheat sold for $114 a bushel, low-grade stockings cost 28 cenLs a pair and a low-scale cost of living for an average family oi" six was $2.50 a week. They got along vilh Y2 50 because thoy lived simply, bought few things. I never had luxuries Today the standard of living Is higher because "there's more goods to be divided." I Big production, not prices, Is what 'makefi real prosperity. An Knglish law. passed in 1643, decreed de-creed thai "no servant in husbandry, nor common laborer, nor servant to1 an artificer shall U6e or wear In their! jelothing any cloth above two shillings i (about 19 cents) the broad jard." ' |