EXERCISE LI. 



THE COST OF LIVING. 



DIRECTIONS. In order to determine with some degree of accuracy the cost of living on 

 the farm and in the city it is necessary to collect data from persons who have had experience 

 in one or both places. Your parents and friends can be of help to you in calculating the cost 

 of certain items called for in the following blank. For the sake of having a common basis for 

 this work let the family under consideration be an average family of five, with three children 

 of school age. 



♦Interest on house and lot 



Taxes on house and lot 



Repair of house 



Heat 



Light 



Water 



Telephone 



Butter 



Eggs 



Meat 



Vegetables 



Other groceries 



Clothes 



Church 



Amusement 



Cost of keeping a horse and buggy, 



team and carriage, or automobile 



Carfare 



Total 



Farm 



City 



It will be interesting to average the data collected by the class. 



"Interest at 5% on house and lot in the city or house and 

 it as interest, taxes and repair. 



"dooryard" in the country- If rent is paid, consider 



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