Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-02-19
headache and a half sick morning for

headache and half sick morning for
most women.
But" says the non-breakfaster. you
can get used To going without foodn'
Possibly yOu can, but why should you
The average wage Garner cannot afford
10 pay for n heavy luncheon down town
and TO make the usual sandwich or sun
dae or slice of pie do duty until the late
dinner is folly on the face of it.
Rather than 90 without breakfast it is
we'll for the worker to eat one that is
fairly substantial. The favorite Cont
mental breakfast is we'll enough for the
woman of leisure, but the worker should
train herself To take more than strong
coffee and a roll.
Fruit cereal, an egg and glass Of
milk Is none too much for the woman
who must use her brain or body under
nerve trying circumstances.
Ear better is it for the worker TO go
without luncheon if she must skip a
meal than not 10 make Il good start in
the morning. 1t costs her less both in
money and tissue-building power.
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Teaching the Value of Money.
AT a fashionable boarding school
where | was called last winter encount-
cred a girl in the office erying. After She
had gone out | inquired about her, and
found she was Il dreSSmaker. She had
done $500 worth of work for one of the
girls in the school and could not get her
money. She came TO ask the girl if she
could not have something on account, as
she had sickness in her family The girl
tossed her head and said, Because you
have had the impudence TO dun me l
snail not pay you Il cent. The day be-
before the girl had paid $40 for little
dog and IS for roses.
OF course it isn't fair to charge the
last instance up to the female side of
the family alone. | presume the bows in
such Il family would pay their gambling
bills and let their tailor wait. But | find
everywhere an appalling ignorance on the
whole subject of domestic finance. Wom-
en- do not know how to order their lives
ON the basis of the income they have
how to get the most out of it and not live
beyond 1t. Nobody teaches children or
young people domestic finance. A great
many girls are learning domestic science
how to cook and do homework Bur
that is not domestic finance They do
not know how much they ought to pay
for rent on u given income. how much
ought to go for clothes and how much for
food. Men do not know any more about
it than women.
Il believe boys as well as girls should
be taught domestic finance They
should learn while they are boys what
kind OF house can be run on a given
sum of money. Such course should
be put into the schools ! believe that
instruction on the proper use of money
should begin in the kindergarten They
tell the children there little stories Of
birds and bees and flowers. Children
don't have very much to do with birds
and bees and flowers, especially city
children; but they all have pennies to
spend. At 10 years | think parents
should begin to make children regular
allowance and should require the chill
dren to buy certain necessary things
out of this allowance. 1t might be cer-
tain school supplies or certain small arti-
cles OF clothing, like handkerchiefs, or
halr ribbons. or it might be their laun-
dry bills. That would teach them 10
be little careful about their clothes
Whatever is chosen the child should be
MADE to 90 without it if he spends his
allowance without purchasing it. He
would begin from that moment to get an
idea of the value of money
Children in well-to-do families have
a good deal of money spent ON them
This money could be made to develop
Their characters. Instead of buying a
boy bicycle outright, | would have
the father give him a weekly allowance
large enough to permit him TO buy the
bicycle IN Il reasonable time, and tell
MN he could have the wheel as soon as
ne had saved the money for il. The NOR
al influence of denying himself small
things in order to save for the bicycle
would be very great. One great trouble
with both wives and children is that
they have no allowance They never
have any fixed sum to regulate their
expenditure by. | find it comparatively
easy to talk personal finance to wage
earners who have a fixed income or 20
girls in boarding schools. who usually
have fixed allowance, but | find very
few women and children in the homes
have fixed allowance, and methodical
expenditure cannot be learned without
fixed sum to base it on.