A Girl's Perseverance.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 9 October 1914, Page 2

A Girl's Perseverance.

Miss Clara S. Loewus, seventeen years of age, some time since won a scholarship at the Ithaca Conservatoire of Music, but was hard pressed for the means necessary for her maintenance while, studying there. She, however, determined that during- the term of twenty weeks her food should not cost more than two shillings a week. She has just completed that term, and declares herself to be in better health than when she started. Her daily diet was : Breakfast, one cup of tea,, two slices of stale bread toasted, spread with vegetable butter ; luncheon, two slices of stale bread and vegetable butter, with a. cup of cocoa ; dinner, one boiled potato spread with dairy butter. Tomatoes and eggs were added to the Sunday menu. She has thus broken the record established by R. P. Cornell, a student at Cornell I'Diversity, who during his period of residence limited his expenditure on meals to :>s. fid. a week.