Show THE COST OF LIVING 11 A rew flays days ago the department bt i agriculture published figures stowing allowing something ot the ibe difference terence dit in the cost ot of living today and in the early part ot of the nineteenth century then eggs were three ahr ee cents a dozen dozen ham seven cents a pound and whisky twenty five cents a gallon these statistics induced a few writers to editorialize on the good old days when everything was cheap and everybody was happy but as a matter of 0 fact the cost ot of living was relatively little cheaper then than now many foodstuffs were low in price but wages were low too and money was scarce and dear band and not all things were cheap as compared with now transportation figuring time as money was more costly then than at present and thera were no live five and ten cent stores arid bargain counters in other mercantile establishments where household articles could be bought tor for a trifling sum education cost more then than now and books were scarcer and dearer and there were many hardships which more than made up tor for three cent eggs and seven cent ham it is true that we no longer have the good old days the fact is we never did SAYS the cincinnati enquirer chauncey depew says king george is a true democrat but since he has af death adeath grip on a nice easy job he be must look more like a republican to the democrats |