SOME EXPERIMENTS IN LIVING ON 

 NEXT TO NOTHING A YEAR 



ONE of the great features of most of the 

 books in favor of living upon nothing in 

 the country consists in the table of expenses, 

 showing at the end of the month, or quarter, 

 or year, where every penny has gone. I have 

 quite a collection of such books, beginning 

 with Ten Acres Enough, and ending with a 

 little volume, issued within the last year, de- 

 scribing how a lady managed to live in comfort 

 and even pay rent upon an income of $150 a 

 year. After much consideration and the prep- 

 aration of many tables of the kind, showing the 

 expenditure from day to day, from week to 

 week, and month to month, I confess that I do 

 not see how such tables as I can give will help 

 any person who wishes to make the experi- 

 ment. It is too much a matter of what people 

 consider the necessaries of life. Mr. Roose- 

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