"There are women who would be glad to get three dollars a week, and think themselves well off." "But how do you live on so small a sum ?" "We have to deny ourselves almost every little comfort, and confine ourselves down to the mere necessaries of life.

After those who can afford to pay good prices for their marketing have been supplied, we come in for a part of what remains.

I often get meat enough for a few cents to last me for several days.

And its the same way with vegetables.

After the markets are over, the butchers and country people, whom we know, let us have lots of things for almost nothing, sooner than take them home.