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these foods: Quaker oats, 3.1 cents; Nichol's pearl hominy, 4.5; Cream 

 of Wheat, 8.8; Grape Nuts, 14.6; Shredded Whole Wheat, 15; Force, 

 16.5 ; Flaked Eice, 18.2; Granula, 27.2. To this may be added the cost 

 of some other brands, as Quaker Corn Flakes, 13.3; Kellogg's Corn 

 Flakes, 13.3; Maple Corn Flakes, 14.5; Post Toasties, 14.5; Grape 

 Sugar Flakes, 17.8; Malta Vita, 18.4; Sugar Corn Flakes, 20; Holland 

 Eusk, 22.8; Puffed Wheat, 29.1 cents. At this rate a bushel of wheat 

 which might be originally worth $1.00 would, when made into a break- 

 fast food, cost the housekeeper from $5.00 to $12.00, calculating that 

 75 per cent, of the grain is available as food, as is the case in making 

 wheat flour. Oatmeal in bulk sells at five cents a pound, and simple 

 preparations of the other grains at from five to seven cents. 



These are a few of the illustrations to show " where the money goes," 

 or at least some of it, expended in the ordinary household. Some of us 

 are living on the luxuries of the market, and use them as food to fur- 

 nish the proteids and carbohydrates and fat for daily consumption. 

 Instead of using the oak and maple and pine for fuel, we are feeding 

 the fire with mahogam', and Circassian walnut and rare imported 

 woods. 



