exactness but can approximate closely. Our John has it as part cf his yearly con- tract that he shall in Winter provide twenty cords of wood for the Summer business. He claims that he had this Spring twenty-two cords, and having but seven cords left we must have used fifteen cords in six weeks. That includes the laundry and dining-room fxes, and allow- ance has to be made for the wood being at least half of it dry and decaying bass- wood that burns away like paper. Of such wood in six weeks we may have burned enough in the kitchen to be equivalent to eight cords of sound wood worth in the country three dollars a cord or twenty-four dollars. The house has consumed twenty-five gallons of coal oil of which the dming- room and kitchen cannot have used more than lo, or $2 worth. 1032-lce. Mr. Farewell has contract with one of the neighbors, by which he hauls all the ice he needs for the stason from said neighbor's ice-house for a compensation of $15. All the ice used for freezing creams has been allowed for in counting cost; for this portion of the season allow for ice otherwise used $10. 1033— Total Cost of Board. Provisions for 23 boarders 42 days $290.70 Wages of employes 6 weeks 312.00 Provisions for employes 42 days 113.67 Fuel, light, ice 36.00 Total $752.37 This is within a fraction of 26 cents a meal for the paying people and is $5.45 a week each as the actual cost of hrst- class board and middle-class table ser- vice. 1034— How Much Profit? This house charges $10 a week for board and lodging, transient meals are 50 cents and therefore average half profit, while there is a margin on regular board- ers of $4.55 a week each and a total of $627.63 for the six weeks, or over $100 a week out of which to pay the bed rooms and rent, the laundry and chamber work haying already been paid for in this estimate, which includes the help em- ployed. The latter part of the season is the best; there are now in the house 40 boarders to 11 "help," yielding a profit of $182 a week. If a man can have a season of only 10 weeks at that average and these prices he makes $1,820 out of a small house; a sum large enough to tempt many to try the business. The owner of the place and his family are properly counted as boarders in every calculation of expense, having placed the manager and housekeeper in position to relieve them from any active participation. If the manager and housekeeper were to get rnarried and, with this book for their guide, were to become the landlord and landlady of the house they would have a still better rate of profit to expect than the figures abovft, iox they would have in addition the salaries which they now enjoy, to go a long way towards paying their rent. The cost of sleeping people consists chiefly in the laundry work involved in changing the bedding after every sleeper. Two sheets, a pillow slip and one or two towels are expected to_ be washed after every departure, which, put out at schedule rates would cost 35 cents for a bed that only yielded 50 cents. For regular boarders the changes are made only twice or it may be once a week ex- cept towels, and reason is found in that for making a difference in rates for regu- lar and transient. The cost of laundry work has also to be reduced to the smallest sum by having it done at home. Dinner. August 20.

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exactness but can approximate closely. Our John has it as part of his yearly contract that he shall in Winter provide twenty cords of wood for the Summer business. He claims that he had this Spring twenty-two cords, and having but seven cords left we must have used fifteen cords in six weeks. That includes the laundry and dining-room fires, and allowance has to be made for the wood being at least half of it dry and decaying basswood that burns away like paper. Of such wood in six weeks we may have burned enough in the kitchen to be equivalent to eight cords of sound wood worth in the country three dollars a cord or twenty-four dollars. The house has consumed twenty-five gallons of coal oil of which the dining-room and kitchen cannot have used more than 10, or $2 worth. 1032-lce. Mr. Farewell has contract with one of the neighbors, by which he hauls all the ice he needs for the stason from said neighbor's ice-house for a compensation of $15. All the ice used for freezing creams has been allowed for in counting cost; for this portion of the season allow for ice otherwise used $10. 1033— Total Cost of Board. Provisions for 23 boarders 42 days $290.70 Wages of employes 6 weeks 312.00 Provisions for employes 42 days 113.67 Fuel, light, ice 36.00 Total $752.37 This is within a fraction of 26 cents a meal for the paying people and is $5.45 a week each as the actual cost of first-class board and middle-class table service. 1034— How Much Profit? This house charges $10 a week for board and lodging, transient meals are 50 cents and therefore average half profit, while there is a margin on regular boarders of $4.55 a week each and a total of $627.63 for the six weeks, or over $100 a week out of which to pay the bed rooms and rent, the laundry and chamber work haying already been paid for in this estimate, which includes the help employed. The latter part of the season is the best; there are now in the house 40 boarders to 11 "help," yielding a profit of $182 a week. If a man can have a season of only 10 weeks at that average and these prices he makes $1,820 out of a small house; a sum large enough to tempt many to try the business. The owner of the place and his family are properly counted as boarders in every calculation of expense, having placed the manager and housekeeper in position to relieve them from any active participation. If the manager and housekeeper were to get rnarried and, with this book for their guide, were to become the landlord and landlady of the house they would have a still better rate of profit to expect than the figures above, iox they would have in addition the salaries which they now enjoy, to go a long way towards paying their rent. The cost of sleeping people consists chiefly in the laundry work involved in changing the bedding after every sleeper. Two sheets, a pillow slip and one or two towels are expected to_ be washed after every departure, which, put out at schedule rates would cost 35 cents for a bed that only yielded 50 cents. For regular boarders the changes are made only twice or it may be once a week except towels, and reason is found in that for making a difference in rates for regular and transient. The cost of laundry work has also to be reduced to the smallest sum by having it done at home. Dinner. August 20.

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