HOW CHEAP ONE CAN LIVE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1017, 14 October 1882, Page 1

HOW CHEAP ONE CAN LIVE.

Bread, after all, is the cheapest diet one can live on, and also the best,,. A story is told that shows how cheap a man can live, when he gets ‘ down to mush,’ figuratively and literally speaking. Colonel Fitzgibbon was, many years ago. Colonial Agent at London for the Canadian Government, and was wholly dependent upon remittances from Canada for his support- On one occasion these remittances failed to arrive, and as there was no cable in those clays, he was compelled to write to his Canadian friends to know the reason of the del iy, Meanwhile he had just mie sovereign to live upon. Ho found that he could live upon six ponce per clay, or about cents of American money —four pennyworths of bread, one pennyworth of milk, and one pennyworth of sugar. He mads pudding of some of the bread and sugar, winch served for breakfast, dinner and supper, the milk being reserved for the last meal. When his remittance arrived about a month afterwards, he had five shillings remaining of his sovereign, and he liked his frugal diet so well that he kept it up for over two years, possibly longer. Sixpence per day is certainly a small amount to expend for food ; but a man in Minnesota, about three years ago, worried through a whole year on £2. He lived on ‘ Johnny cake.’