The Cost of Living As Modified By Sanitary Science
The Cost of Living As Modified By Sanitary Science
Richards, Ellen H. (Ellen Henrietta), 1842-1911
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9 7-7 7-3 5-0 " The first law is that the proportion between ex- penditure and nutriment grows in geometric progres- sion in an inverse ratio to well-being; in other words, the higher the income the smaller is the percentage of cost of subsistence. The second is that clothing assumes and keeps a distinctly constant proportion in the whole. The third is that lodging, warming, and HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURE, ^r/ 35 lighting have an invariable proportion whatever the income. The fourth is that the more... the income increases the greater is the proportion of the dif- ferent expenses which express the degree of well- being. 1 The less a worker gains the more he invests in food, renouncing out of necessity all other desires. " {Bull, de r Institut International de Statist. , 1887, pp. 50, 55, 57. ) From the examination of various budgets and from observation of many families, as well as from twenty- five years' experience in housekeeping, I am con- vinced that the tendency to extravagance in the American household comes in the two columns Food and Operating Expenses if the latter include the incidentals or sundries and unexpected outgoes, which count up very fast.
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