Judge, 1919-09-06 · page 8 of 36
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# "How to Live on One Hundred Dollars a Day" This is satirical advice on wartime economy, likely from WWI era (references to Liberty Bonds, Thrift Stamps). The author George Street mocks both wealthy people claiming poverty and working-class people who somehow manage on pittances—exposing the hypocrisy of the era's "cost of living" (H.C. of L.) crisis. The illustration shows a worried man and woman, captioned about sending "Jane" to the grocer with implied disaster. Street's "advice" drips with irony: skip opera tickets, buy vegetables instead of expensive meat, don't visit museums, embrace strict rationing. The recurring joke is that the wealthy complain while the poor actually achieve what they claim is impossible. The subheadings ("Drink, Pretty Creature," "Getting His," "In the Anteroom") contain brief, darkly comic vignettes about drinking, workplace illness, and medical visits—satirizing contemporary social problems alongside economic pretense.
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make over $40,000 a year, yet his wife was seen buying a dozen eggs the other day. [am personally ac- quainted with a plumber who gets only 30 a week, yet they have corned beef and cabbage every other Tuesday. If these people can do it, any American housewife can. Buy in quantities, and take ad- vantage of every discount. Get a whole pound of sugar at one time, even if you have to miss Caruso and Farrar once in a while. You should never buy less than a can of baked beans. And do not waste the can. Keep a goat. Do not squander money in car- fares to go to the Metropolitan Museum and gaze upon canv by Turner. You can be just as happy at home, looking at a steel engraving of Herbert Hoover. Most people cat too much meat ‘The other day I saw a man carving a filet steak almost as bi Thrift Stamp. Next week he'll have inflammatory rheumatism and won- der how he got it Instead of meat, serve the suc- culent vegetables. Carrots can be bought for six or seven dollars a bunch. Ten dollars’ worth of ruta- bagas contain as many calories as a thousand-dollar ham. Pay as you go. Do not break into your reserve capital. Especially hold on to your Liberty Bonds. I know a very green-grocer who is offering to take them in exchange for cucumbers. Those who do so may regret it. [tis not the H. C. of L. that Droven by Warren Ue Monts keeps people poor. Higher food prices are an incentive to industry. The trouble with most people is that they work too hard for their How to Live on One Hundred Dollars 0" pocketbooks and die too soon for the profit of the coal man and butcher. a Day Ry Growce Setmet ses asa “I'm so worried about Jane. I sent her to the “Heavens! You don't suppose anything has hy Drink, Pretty Creature Little drops of water can be done. Of course, one must not expect to ‘That we used to think eat real butter every day, nor to have one’s name Were simply made for chasers among the guarantors of a symphony orchestra, Are now the whole blamed drink. but the economical housewife, not afraid to practise rigid self-restraint, can feed and clothe her family on a Getting His hundred dollars a day. It is even possible to have ice- “Where have you been for the last three days: cream on Sundays and chicken at Christmas “Sick! he various departments of our government are “You were all right when you left the office.” doing all they can to keep down the H. C. of L. The “This is the sick spell I didn’t have when you were short- Attorney-General has eliminated champagne from the handed last month.” patriotic menu. The Postmaster-General has reduced letter postage one cent, making it easier to patronize In the Anteroom the mail-order diamond houses. “Tell the doctor U'll have a fit if he doesn’t sce me soon.” There is a bricklayer in our street who does not “Go ahead, lady. He's the best fit doctor in the city.