Workmen's Spendings.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 2625, 30 October 1894, Page 4

Workmen's Spendings.

In the expenditure on religion and charity, national c aracteristioß show themaelvea. Thas the Englishman givea £1 3a to hia ohurcb, and £1 2a to alma. The Scotchman gives £1 Isi to religion, bat reduces bis Charity to 10s 6d. Sceptical Fracca gives, indeed, 13jto the church, but to charity lie; while the prudent German endows his church to the extent of ss, and bestows in charity nothing at all. Tbe American gives generously to religion ; in New Hampshire, New York, and Connecticut, £2 53 to £2 10*; and over all tbe wool manufacturing States an average of £1 15s ; but charity comes off bat moderately with an average of 13s 81. On furniture and books the American apenda about twice aa muoh as the European, bat in amusements only half. In this item the Frenohman leads with £5 per family, the Englishman follows with £4 10 - ; while even in New York, which seems the moat luxurious of the Statea, the expenditure does not exceed £3, and in sober Massachusetts it is aa low as 13s 6d. The workman's drink bill is heaviest in New York— £7 10s, bat that ia due more to the Canadian and the Scotchman than the native-born Amerioan ; next oomes France with £7, then Britain with £3 6a. Tbe loweat Bum per family is in Massachusetts, where it amounta to only 10s 6d ; bnt one oannot help wondering how, in a prohibition State like Maine, tbe workman'a aocount for intoxicants cornea to be act down at £2 7a 6i.— « The Hospital.'