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 cost of living, but I believe you are on the right track. Finding the cause of high prices is the way to begin."

"And, Larry, one cause of our high prices is the neighborhood in which we live."

"Well, we're not going to move out of it. I won't raise my children in an undesirable neighborhood just to save two cents a pound on meat."

"I have an idea!" remarked Mrs. Larry, snuggling closer in the arm that seemed always waiting for her. "If the cheap markets can't come to our neighborhood because of the high rents, I'm going to them. All of them deliver. The man who talked to the League said so; I don't suppose the East Side butchers would come over here more than once a day."

"And his system of delivery at all hours is one of Mr. Dahlgren's heavy overhead expenses, remember."

"And you're not to complain, understand, if sometimes there is a shortage in tenderness or juiciness of roasts."

"I'll be the best little victim of your experi-