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&quot; That poor folks could live a great deal cheaper and 

 better than they do, if they only knew how to economize 

 their food. You have told them how, but they are slow 

 to learn, or loth to change from foolish old practices.&quot; 



&quot; What was your next change?&quot; 



&quot; Oh, yes, I was about to tell you that. Well, I went to 

 the butcher s the night before, and bought five cents worth 

 of little scrap pieces of lean beef, and I declare I think I 

 got as much as a pound, and this I cut up into bits, and 

 soaked over night an all-important process for soup or a 

 stew cooking it in the same water. Then I bought two 

 cents worth of potatoes and one cent s worth of meal 

 that made the eight cents ; two had to go for fuel every 

 day, and the paper I got my purchases in served for kin 

 dling. The meal I wet up into stiff dough, and worked out 

 into little round balls, about as big as grapes, and the pota 

 toes I cut up into slices, and all together made a stew, or 

 chowder, seasoned with a small onion and part of a pepper- 

 pod that I got with the potatoes. It was very good, but it 

 did not go quite so far as the soup either day, or else the 

 fresh meat tasted so good that we wanted to eat more. 

 But I can tell you, small as it may seem to you, there is a 

 great deal of good eating in one dime.&quot; 



&quot; So there is what a pity everybody don t know it ! 

 What a world of good might be done with a dime ! 



&quot; Reader, have you got a dime that is, to spare only 

 one dime ? Give it to that poor widow. Give it ? No ; 

 you owe it. She has given you twice its value, whether 

 you are one that will feast to-day on a dollar, or be stinted 

 with a dime. She bas taught you what you never knew 

 before the value of one dime.&quot; 



In his essay on &quot; Economy of Food,&quot; Mr. Kob- 

 inson speaks as follows : 



