ABSTRACT
The expense of living in China depends a good deal upon the service one demands and the kinds of food he orders, just as it does in Europe and America. The common labourer in New York can get a full dinner for fifteen cents, while the business man or society woman pays three dollars for an ordinary dinner at a fashionable hotel. The same thing is true in China, although prices there are not quite as high as they are here, because both labour and service are cheaper. But food is only one part of the expense of living. Clothing and shelter play as important a part as food. The Chinese have reduced the expense of clothing to a last analysis of economy for the North Temperate Zone. People of Europe and America have not learned the first principles of economy in the matter of food and clothing.
