American homes and gardens . A Glimpse of the Marble Room, Floored with a Mosaic from the Torlonia Palace, in the Summer Home ofAmbassador George von L. Meyer, Hamilton, Massachusetts 148 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS September, 1906 Monthly Comment. jTATISTICAL publications are not often ofabounding general interest, but numberlessvaluable facts can often be extracted fromthem. A recent Bulletin published by theBureau of Labor might profitably be studiedby a much larger class than the compara-tively limited number of specialties to which it appeals. Itcontains an elaborate study of the living ex
American homes and gardens . A Glimpse of the Marble Room, Floored with a Mosaic from the Torlonia Palace, in the Summer Home ofAmbassador George von L. Meyer, Hamilton, Massachusetts 148 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS September, 1906 Monthly Comment. jTATISTICAL publications are not often ofabounding general interest, but numberlessvaluable facts can often be extracted fromthem. A recent Bulletin published by theBureau of Labor might profitably be studiedby a much larger class than the compara-tively limited number of specialties to which it appeals. Itcontains an elaborate study of the living expenses of nineteenpoor families living in the District of Columbia, expensesitemized down to the last cent and detailed in the mostminute manner possible. The families in question areavowedly poor. In one of ten the only wage-earner is the hus-band, who brings in from $9 to $12 per week; in anotherof seven the husband earns $2 per day when he has work, butloses many days; a daughter brings in a small weekly amount;in another the husband and oldest son—the family num-bers seven—each earns $ per day in good weather; inanother of eight the father earns $12 per week at irregularlabor, and a boy $ per week. The rents paid vary; some
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