Workingman's Model Home. 411 



Baby C'i.otiiek. Cost. 



One dozen new diapers |0 96 



One dozen old diapers 



Six slips, at 32 1-3 cents each: 



Five and oue-half yards (•anibric, at 11 cents SO 61 



Seven and one-half 3'ards edging, at 8 cents 60 



One dozen bnttons, at 5 cents 05 



Two spools cotton, at 4 cents 08 



1 34 



Three night gowns, at 17 cents each 51 



Two pinning blankets 1 38 



Two woolen shirts, at 60 cents 1 20 



Two pair socks, at 23 cents 46 



Two skirts, 3 yards flannel, at 37 1-2 cents 1 14 



Two outing flannel sacques, 1 1-2 yards, at 12 1-3 cents 16 



Three bands, 1-3 yard flannel 20 



One flannel wrapper, 2 3-4 yards, at 13 1-3 cents 35 



One cap 28 



Cloak, 2 1-3 yards flannel, at 69 cents §1 73 



One yard ribbon 13 



One spool silk 09 



1 95 



Total |9 83 



SUM.MAKY OF CLOTHING POll FAMILy. Cost for 1 year. 



Man $39 31 



Woman 37 59 



Girl of ten years 16 60 



Boy of eight years 15 98 



Girl of five years 8 67 



Baby 9 83 



The Food. 



The objects of the food experiment were twofold ; first, to show 

 that for $200 a year, or an average of fifty-live cents a day, five per- 

 sons could be so well fed as to satisfy their appetites by the quality and 

 variety of food and to keep them in sound health and good working 

 condition ; second, to see how closely practice would verify the theory 

 by first preparing a series of bills of fare, in accordance with the 

 standards laid down by our scientific workers in food economics, and 

 then testing by putting them in use with a real family and noting 

 results. 



The work of physiologists, chemists and statisticians on the food 

 problem in Germany, England and America'lias been summed up into 

 certain so-called " standards " of food, varying for different nationalities, 

 ages arid conditions. These standards show roughly what is the con- 

 chision up to date as to t^^s quantity of food necessary to sustain life or 

 to keep a man in good working condition, and in what proportion the 

 different food principles should be represented in his daily ration. The 

 standards are based upon experiment and observation, and will, probably, 

 be modified by further research. 



To make the food experiment tried at Chicago intelligible to the 

 general reader, a few brief i^reliminary statements in explanation of the 

 terms used in the standards may not be out of place. 



