The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-01-03

hard, TO improve every moment, 20
economic, TO avoid debt-these are the
only sure steps to a comfortable old
age Girls should be taught 10 feel
that the allowance money is their very
own; that they have earned it. and
that in spending il they are spending
the returns of their own labor. To get
SO from papa" to buy him a Christ
mas present is not an evidence of SYM
pathy between capital and labor. The
Great Teacher taught the needful les
son OF economy by asking that the
fragments of loaves and fishes be gath
cred that nothing be lost There are
thousands of homes in which this same
lesson might be repeated daily.
a Book of Accounts.
Girls win find it to their advantage
. TO keep personal accounts; a careful
record Of their receipts and expenses.
rms may be done in a very simple way
and without any attempt at boOkkeep-
ing, as this subject is ordinarily under
stood. 1t IS interesting to know at the
end of the year the total money spent
Tor hats or gowns or on the summer
vacation and to balance these items up
against the money spent for charity or
the sum contributed TO the fresh-air
fund or the items for Christmas. This
measured by dollar-and-cent rule. 1t
may dull ones sentiment to parcel out
q $40 Oil into shoes and ribbon and
poor fund and Christmas gift At the
same time the business method is the
only safe method; il is the only method
which viii keep girls from a constant
condition Of insolvency; it is very poor
sentiment which bOTTOws a dollar to
give it to charity
1t IS not necessary to say how this
DOCK OF accounts should be kept. No
Two girls could possibly keep such
records in the same way.
How to Write a Receipt.
A receipt is the written acknowledge
ment Of money or other value received.
1t should state for what the value was
received, whether on account or in full
OF account, or for some particular DlIr-
pose. All receipts should be dated and
the signature should be authoritative.
II, for instance, You owe Walter W.
...---..-. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ........
Received from Mrs. Helen Brown
the sum of ten dollars $50 on ac-
count. NJ. J. ANDERSON
Dec. Z, 1899
~--..-..... INSTRUMENTATION.
Smith & Co. SIS, and they send their
clerk, Henry Adams, to collect the bill.
$4,000 '..'.'''.s...-...... ..........
Received payment.
WALTER W. SMITH & CO., ::
per Henry Adams.
-.'.---..- .......--........... ........S
you should require that the bill be re-
ceipted in some such form as this. You
must satisfy yourself that Henry
Adams Is in the employ of Walter w
Smith & Co., or that ne has been au-
thorized by them to collect the bill. In
no case should money be paid to entire
strangers without some assurance of
their business connection. When money
IS paid on an account it is taken as
evidence the account is considered cor
rect. If an error or an overcharge. is
discovered in a bill it should be re-
turned for correction before any nav
ment IS made. A receipt in full of all
demands is evidence of a COMPROMISE
and mutual settlement Of all claims
between the parties. All receipts and
receipted bills should be carefully pre-
served, not forever, of course. but for
a year or two. Do not trust too much
TO memory in matters in which money
is concerned. Give receipts and require
them and enter the records in your own
private account book.
Note-These studies will be contin-
ued next week.