Suitable for people who perform hard manual labor, out of doors, and for those who are not steadily employed.

Sample Menu. How to feed a family of five (2 adults and 3 children under 12 years of age) on $5.00 per week or 14 cents per person per day - 71 cents per day for all.

Breakfast

Cost in Cents.

Cereal salad with apples and onions.

Rylax or rolled wheat

2 1/2 cups

2 1/2

Apples

3 large

5

Cotton seed oil

_3 tablespoons

2

Lemon

1 1/2

1

Onion

I whole

1/2

Dinner

Lettuce with syrup dressing. Dried green peas with dumplings and fried bacon.

Lettuce

1 head

2

Syrup

3 tablespoons

1

Lemon or vinegar

2 tablespoons

Cotton seed oil

3 tablespoons

2

Onion

1 whole

1/2

Peas

1 pound

5

Flour

1 1/2 cups

3

Bacon

1/2 pound

15

Supper

Cream of tomato soup with dry toast.

Tomatoes ......................................................................

1 can

8

Soup stock

1 quart .... ...

5

Milk

1 quart...........

8

Butter ................................ ......

3 tablespoons

4

Flour ..............................................................................

4 tablespoons................

1/2

Toast ...........................................................................

7 large slices

4

TOTAL.

.......................................69 Cents

If porridge with milk is desired for breakfast, substitute a quart of milk in place of apples, oil, lemon and onion. Use one and three-fourths cup of rolled wheat or rye in place of two and one-half cups. If sugar is necessary, add fifteen prunes or five level tablespoons of sugar. During the summer, substitute carrots or cucumbers for the sweets. Raw, sweet or sub-acid fruits do not combine well with cooked cereals. Raw fruits and raw cereals is a better combination.

In order to reduce the cost of living to 10 cents per person per day or 50 cents' per day for all, leave out the fat meat costing 15 cents, and some of the butter, replacing it by cooking oil. It is easy to modify the diet or add to it in a given direction. If more protein is required, a boiled egg or a few nuts may be added to the breakfast. If more fuel is needed, it can be added in the form of soup, fruits or fat. In comparing the value of 1 pound of legumes with 1 pound of lean meat and the additional fatty and green foods that are necessary with a meat diet, the housewife will realize that she must either have a big purse for the bills of fare with meat, or starve her family if they do not like legumes.

Ten cents per day is a small sum for a useful citizen to live on, yet thousands of people are compelled to do so every year, and for these the following pages might be of assistance.

Economical management, self-denial and abstinence from luxuries are the lessons to be studied. Look over the chapter on protein foods carefully. Never economize in these in order to buy cake, pastry or sweets. All who, for some reason or other, have to fight off starvation, will find that whole wheat bread and pure water or oatmeal porridge are the most perfect foods to keep them in fair health. They prevent diseases which might be the result of such conditions. To keep up on tea, coffee, sugar, white bread and liquor might result in dangerous breakdowns, insanity, murder and suicide. Coffee, tea and alcohol are medicines; they are valuable at times for the sick, when the system cannot digest food, or under conditions where not sufficient natural food can be obtained. On such occasions they may prevent disease and death.