 No one can say that I do not give my family the best of flour, the finest of sugar, the very best quality of meat." He paid $156 a year for the nicest cuts of meat, which his wife had to cook before six in the morning or after half past six at night,...  The Tramp at Home - Page 7by Lee Meriwether - 1889 - 296 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - American literature - 1888 - 990 pages
...PECUNIARY ECONOMY OF FOOD. THE CHEMISTRY OF FOODS AND NUTRITION. V. " No one can say that I do nol give ray family the best of flour, the finest sugar, the very best quality of meat." HE above is the boast of a coal laborer earning seven dollars a week. It illustrates a phenomenon which... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - Science - 1888 - 346 pages
...question comes closely home to nearly all classes ; no more to the coal-laborer who made his boast, " No one can say that I do not give my family the best...the finest sugar, the very best quality of meat," than to the affluent whose every desire can be gratified without pecuniary embarrassment. Said a millionnaire... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - Science - 1888 - 450 pages
...question comes closely home to nearly all classes ; no more to the coal-laborer who made his boast, " No one can say that I do not give my family the best...the finest sugar, the very best quality of meat," than to the affluent whose every desire can be gratified without pecuniary embarrassment. Said a millionnaire... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - Science - 1888 - 448 pages
...question comes closely home to nearly all classes ; no more to the coal-laborer who made his boast, " No one can say that I do not give my family the best...the finest sugar, the very best quality of meat," than to the affluent whose every desire can be gratified without pecuniary embarrassment. Said a millionnaire... | |
 | Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station - 1889 - 1114 pages
...much attention to this especial subject, cites a case in point, that of a coal laborer who boasted: " No one can say that I do not give my family the best of flour, the finest of sugar, the very best quality of meat." He paid $156 a year for the nicest cuts of meat, which his... | |
 | New Jersey. Board of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1894 - 546 pages
...principle. In "Harper's Magazine," for April, 1887 r there is cited an instance of a coal laborer who said, "No one can say that I do not give my family the best of flour, the finest of sugar, the very best quality of meat." He was innocently committing an enormous economical and hygienic... | |
 | Wilbur Olin Atwater - Food - 1895 - 236 pages
...much attention to this special subject, cites a case in point, that of a coal laborer who boasted: "No one can say that I do not give my family the best of flour, the finest of sugar, the very best quality of meat." He paid $156 a year for the nicest cuts of meat, which his... | |
 | Edward Atkinson, Wilbur Olin Atwater - Aladdin oven - 1896 - 268 pages
...Articles, Prof. Atwater makes the following quotation and then proceeds to show what true economy may be: " No one can say that I do not give my family the best...flour, the finest sugar, the very best quality of meat" The above is the boast of a coal laborer earning seven dollars a week. It illustrates a phenomenon... | |
 | Hygiene - 1896 - 590 pages
...attention to this special subject, cites a case in point, that of a coal laborer who boasted : " Xo one can say that I do not give my family the best of flour, the finest of sugar, the very best quality of meat." He paid $156 a year for the nicest cuts of meat, which his... | |
 | John Harvey Kellogg - Bacteriology - 1896 - 734 pages
...' boasts a coal laborer, whose case was cited by Mr. Meriwether in illustration of this very point, 'can say that I do not give my family the best of flour, the finest of sugar, the very best quality of meat.' He paid 2156 a year for the nicest cuts of meat, which his... | |
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