Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-07-28

to serve. This may be thickened If de-
sired.
From the time a child-boy or girls
four years old he or she should be given a
regular weekly allowances no matter how
small, for pocket money!; This may take
the form of payment foricertain little ser
vices rerdered-the filling of the wood box,
the keeping of hats and coats hung up. the
busting of the play room-or it may be
given in fee simple. Some children are
natural little spendthrifts, and unless early
taught the value of money, iniIthat forma-
tive period when habits are liked. will go
on making ducks and brakes of their
income to the end of theif-days If a child
realizes that he cannot eat his cake and
keep it, that if his weeks allowance is all
spent Monday there will be nothing left for
Tuesday. Wednesday and Thursday. he
very soon grasps the idea of personal re-
sponsibility in the expenditure of his nickel
or dime to its best advantage.
The young girl who has her stated al
lowance for gloves, ribbons, pins and all
the pretty tiny kickshaws' that women
naturally love and really require will soon
develop the faculty of careful, discriminat-
ing buyng-of learning to look out for
quality and durability, and above all for
caring for her belongings and making them
80 as far as possible. IL glri is thus
early taught to use good judgment IN buy-
ing, and then to keep an accurate account
of her expenditures, there will be fewer
puzzled Bella Nilfers in the years to come
when she starts housekeeping and book
keeping under her own pretty roof-tree.
IF you would have a woman keep ac-
counts" said an instructor in household
economies recently in addressing a class OF
Young women you must make it easy for
her Deulortne vet admitting this we'll
known feminine aversion to figures, the fol-
lowing simple plan of keeping track OF
household expenses which has been in use
for years in my own family is submitted
n i-l.Pr number OF Columns
are ruled down the double pages, seVerally
headed rent service, gas ana fuei groceries
meat. fruit and vegetables, DAIRY products
furnishings, repairs. baker, ice ana extras
Cross-!ines cut off each day by itself, so
that at the end of the week 1t Is not ten
minutes work to summarize the amount
expended for each department. OF the mouse.
hold ana the daily and weekly sum total of
ali expenses. In this way one can readily
discern whether the proper food ratio is
maintained. can locate leaks and readJust
proportions. If to the housekeeping ac-
COUNT an account Of personal expenditures
is added there is no excuse for any one in
possession of a regular allowance overrun-
ming his or her income or being IN ignorance
of Just where it has gone.
A refrigerator should always be placed
where it can be well lighted and drained.
but never in the cellar or other damp
place. Its drain pipe should never be al
lowed to connect with the sewer, and
strainer should. be kept over the water out
let, inside the refrigerator, so as to pre-
vent the escape Of cold air through the
waste pipe. Before putting the ice into the
ice apartment it should be well washed and
then put in carefully so as not to injure the
lining. A refrigerator In bad condition is
menace to health. ana once week it should
be ernptied washed with soap and warm
wafer and then wiped perfectly dry. Pour
warm water in the waste pipe that it may
clear away the slime accommodating from
the ice. If there is any Stoppage use
flexible wire, with skewers for grooves and
corners.
With the iceman and his volumlnous bill
a prominent factor in the summers eX-
penSes, it must be remembered that 1t is
much cheaper to have 4 large quantity put
in the ice box at 4 time than to buy a small
quantity every day or every other day. Ice
in bulk keeps much better than in small
pieces. If well wrapped in several thick
nesses Of newspaper fifty pounds Of Ice
ought to last the average family four or
possibly five DAYS