Birmingham age-herald., 1895-01-22
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HOUSEHOLD ECONOMY.
Mrs. Witherby Keeps an Expense Account
 With Varying Results.

Mrs. Wltherby Keeps an Expense Account
 With Varying Results.
 II am sure" said young Mrs. Wither- by, who had been reading "The Young Housekeeper's Guide to Happiness, '''that the real secret of household. economy is in keeping an account book.
 Young MT. Witherby did not agree very cordially. He implied that little com mon sense in buying articles would be equally valuable as means of saving, but his wife decided to open an expense ac' count notwithstanding.
 The book was beauty. It cost S2. It had flexible red leather cover and gilt edges. Expenses" was stamped in old English letters on the cover Mrs. Wither. by surveyed it with pride as it lay on her desk. Then it occurred to her that the red leather of the cover did not harmonize with the antique oak of the desk or with the other furnishings.
 '.How lovely it would be, said young Mrs. Witherby, ito have mahogany desk with red leather fttingsl Or even a white desk. I think-I think I'll enamel an old one. It would look so bright and pretty. And I'll soon save the cost of it by the economy the expense book will teach me to practice"
 Accordingly Mrs Witherby spent a small sum of money and long period of time In making white 0 certain cheap stained desk which had been relegated to the other guest chamber. She spent a much larger sum of money, although a smaller time, in buying red leather cal endar frame, ink well holder, pen tray and other desk furnishings. Then she called upon her husband to admire. "Huhl" said he unapprecietively. "How much did it all costf''
 "Oh, not mucb," said Mrs Witherby airily. That's an old desk, and I paint ed it myself. The pot of paint cost me 95 cents.
 ''Huh" said Mir Witherby again. And how much were those red folderolsf'
 Thirteen dollars" faltered Mrs. With erby
 ''Huh!'' said Mir. Witherby for the third time. II suppose that's the sort of econ- omy an expense book teaches you to prac- tice. It's little too dear form of say ing for me-"
 Remembering the advice of "The Young Housekeeper's Guide to Happiness as to the wife's behavior in family quarrels, Mrs. Witberby was silent. But she made up her mind that he should repent of the
 
 as a means of saving money the account book was unexcelled.
 For week she kept her accounts rigid ly. Stamp. 3 cents was frequent item. Soda, 10 cents," also occurred often. But when she went to balance her accounts at the week 8 end she found to her pain that she had written her expend- itures on all the pages, and that her in- come was jotted down among her expenses in medley. It took her some time to revise and correct the account and when it was done she found only $7.S9 missing.
 The next week Mrs. Witherby forgot the account beck every other day or so and tried writing it up from memory, with disastrous results. The third week she forgot it for two days at a time, with even more unfortunate consequences, and the fourth week she took the lovely rcd leather volume for a scrapbook in which to paste sentimental 7oems.-Chicago Journal