A Connecticut Family in the Textile Industry Nine family members: husband, age 56, is a cloth inspector; wife, age 52, works at home; cliildren — male 21, male 18, male 17, female 14, female 12 — three work, two are at school; two are boarders. Annual family income:

 Husband's salary: 188.00 Children's wages: 710.00 Boarder's rent: 40.00 Annual expenses: $938.00 Rent 49.44 Food 482.31 Other 317.40 $849.15 

Annual food expenditures

 Beef $108.75 Hog products 99.25 Other meat 3.30 Eggs 0 Lard 6.40 Butter 58.24 Tea 12.00 Coffee 6.00 Sugar 36.00 Molasses 1.80 Potatoes 9.60 Poultry 0.00 Fish 3.00 Milk 21.90 Flour/meal 30.00 Bread 27.20 Rice .60 Cheese 8.32 Fruit 0.00 Vinegar/pickles 1.00 Vegetables 1.20 Other 28.25 $482.31 

The family of nine lives in a rented house with six rooms heated with wood. The house has one carpet. The light for the house is provided with oil lamps. The family uses twenty-four gallons of oil a year, costing $3.60. The husband spent $13.25 on clothing; the wife spent $7.00, and the children spent $130.00. The family spent $10.25 on furniture and paid $1.38 in taxes. The family...