These may seem like small matters but the result was that we all of us kept looking shipshape and our clothes lasted. When we finally did finish with them they weren't good for anything but old rags and even then Ruth used them about her housework. I figured roughly that Ruth kept us well dressed on about half what it cost most of our neighbors and yet we appeared to be twice as well dressed as any of them. Of course we had a good many things to start with when we came down here but our clothing bill didn't go up much even during the last year when our original stock was very nearly exhausted. She accomplished this result about one-half by long-headed buying, and one-half by her carefulness and her skill with the needle. To go back to the matter of food, I'll copy off a week's bill of fare during this month. Ruth has written it out for me. You'll notice that it doesn't vary very much from the earlier ones. Sunday. Breakfast: fried hasty pudding with molasses; doughnuts, cocoa made from cocoa shells. Dinner: lamb stew with dumplings, boiled potatoes, boiled onions, cornstarch pudding. Monday. Breakfast: oatmeal, baked potatoes, creamed codfish, biscuits. Luncheon: for Billy: brown bread sandwiches, cold beans, doughnuts, milk; for Dick and me: boiled rice, cold biscuits, baked apples, milk. Dinner: warmed over lamb stew, baked apples, cocoa, cold biscuits. Tuesday. Breakfast: oatmeal, milk toast, cocoa. Luncheon: for Billy: cold biscuits, hard-boiled eggs, doughnuts; for Dick and me: warmed over beans, biscuits. Dinner: hamburg steak, baked potatoes, graham muffins, apple sauce, milk. Wednesday. Breakfast: oatmeal, griddle-cakes with molasses, cocoa shells. Luncheon: for Billy: sandwiches made of biscuits and left over steak, doughnuts; for Dick and me: crackers and milk, hot gingerbread. Dinner: vegetable hash, hot biscuits, gingerbread, apple sauce, milk. Thursday. Breakfast: oatmeal, fried hasty pudding, doughnuts, cocoa shells. Luncheon: for Billy: hard-boiled eggs, cold biscuits, gingerbread, baked apple; for Dick and me: baked potatoes, apple sauce, cold biscuits, milk. Dinner: lyonnaise potatoes, hot corn bread, Poor man's pudding, milk. Friday. Breakfast: smoked herring, baked potatoes, oatmeal, graham muffins. Luncheon: for Billy: herring, cold muffins, doughnuts; for Dick and me: German toast, apple sauce. Dinner: fish hash, biscuits, Indian pudding, milk. Saturday. Breakfast: oatmeal, German toast, cocoa shells. Luncheon: for Billy: cold biscuits, hard-boiled eggs, bowl of rice; for Dick and me: rice and milk, doughnuts, apple sauce. Dinner: baked beans, new raised bread.