The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-27
HOUSEHOLD ECONOMY.
The Prevailing Fault Among Americans
of All Grades Is Extravaganza.

of All Grades Is Extravaganza.
If the question were asked what one
| quality in a woman most conduces to a
! happy home l should say frugality and
economy, and if what quality in a man
most conduces to home happiness should
repeat-economy and frugality. The great
American crime is want of rational econ,
omy. The woman wastes in the parloF
and kitchen. The man wastes everywhere.
| There is no class that is careful of outgoes
No one man or woman in one hundred
| keeps an account of personal expenses. II
our schools, instead of the rule Of three,
would teach the children the simplest ele-
ments of plain bookkeeping, mathematics
would be of some value The farmer who
once puts down in figures his expenditures
and his income and honestly writes down
his losses by bad ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ness-will be on the road to amendment.
Every housekeeper should have slate
hanging in the kitchen, on which to jot
down daily expenses, and "A pocket account
book to see how quickly SlG0 slips away
When statistics prove that average life
is provided with far more comforts than
fifty years ago, and / look about at the
amount now expended in year compared
how much it will take TO satisfy the wants
of a family fifty years hence. There is not
question but half of our boys and girls
are harmed by too free use of money and
the other half by being jealous and dissat-
isfied.
Where will be the end of indulgence'
The antidote is twofold. We must educate
them TO restrain their desires and very
to in, ION, to
ditures. Every child should be brought
up to feel a responsibility for the house.
hold. see girls daily that are surely pre-
pairing for misery. Heaven help a man
who is inveigled into marrying such wo-
man. She has and can have no idea Of
earning or saving. She only considers n
husband as a purveyOr and prOvider. He
in turn loses his highest aim in life. Home
is a hopeless idea never 70 be grati6ed.
His ideals drop down. He becomes a club
man if rich, a soured man il poor. This
one thought ought 20 be uppermost in
training-to make our young people help
full. and the girls 10 comprehend the duty
of being helpmates-
But about necessity: II is true that most
of those who are supposed TO be above the
necessity of kitchen work really are soy
lies, and the slave, in the majority Of
cases. is the husband. He has DO leisure
in life from money making. We women
are creating a detestable class Of men
money makers. On moderate income
they know that their family is not consti-
tuted TO be happy. The outgocs are from
one-fourth 70 thrce-fOurths for things that
could be spared without suffering.
Their is nothing 50 honorable as toll and
this every one without exception should lie
made to feel. The work Of the world
should be evenly distributed as a privilege
and JOY As for mental work. II is gener-
ally such by inference, il is tina: which
shows skill Why should 50 many thou
sands Of our women consider cooking and
cleaning "a ont 81 their province, A
woman that does nor need 70 sweep q foor
should nevertheless do It, and do ii vel
Into Yassar and into Cur common ECHOES
must 20 the incubation Of a pobier spirit
X makes very little difference whether u
be in a rich home or poor ore. bat com
planning spirit and a wasfefai cue Spots
al comfort some Cue has ssII3 that oue-
half a the production % the United States
gets wasted lie laid special stress cn the !
bad habits q those who cultivate the s0il 4
and handle crops Ny special trouble =
with those q us who waste r. the hOuss- /
hold / am lot urging psnaT401snszss, bat !
economy there - 10 escape from Oar I
young couples shog!d IL trained formally 4
70 a study Of waTs and means u - IL /
sanfty 20 start cot ia lie ahead q Iuc1rus. /
or even fush with j. ! wish al yozng i
married ecE pies were compelled - Aa7s - 4
20 70 a school Of domestic economy ior che 4
year after nnarrIags--St. I>auis Globe /
Democrat.