Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-18
Club News

/ AIuTCn says LTldI SfG htpL ACCOUNTS
of her household expenditures for
she is happier than she has ever been
in her life since freed of that RESPONSE
bility.
Mrs. M Hood on the other hand,
asserts that when she was married the
first article which was bought for the
new home was put down in the house
hold account book, and for forty-f1Ve
years since then she has written down
each expenditure and taken great
satisfaction in doing 1t.
This discussion was caused by the
paper on Economy of Time, Labor
and Money in the Household" Miss
| Emma l.. Hawks spoke on the subject
giving her views with all the double
authority Of theoretical and practical
knowledge. At one point in her ad-
dress she mentioned the proper diVi-
sion of financial affairs and suggested
that in all families some similar ar
rangement should be made. This led
to an informal discussion by the menu
bers of the club. One enthusiastic
listener finally admitted that she kept
her household accounts every month,
and was happy to do so, but that as
they never balanced and she always
had to charge money up to carfare or
something Of the sort, she was heartily
anyone else for her funds
A rising vote of club members
showed that at some time nearly
everyone had kept household accounts,
but that many had now given it up.
NOther discussions of moment which
followed Miss Hawks very enlighten-
ing paper concerned the proportioning
of the income. Her suggestion was:
Food, % per cent; rent, 20 per cent;
operating expenses, Is per cent;
clothes. 20 per cent; charity savings
books and amusements, 20 per cent.
She did not urge this as an ideal
division, but as one which was gen.
orally followed. Many exceptions to
II e arrangement were offered, espe-
cially to the amount allowed for ope-
| rating expenses and for clothes. The
paper and its attendant topics caused
very general discussion by club mem
bers, and was productive of much in
| terest.
Miss Hawks made many excellent
| suggestions concerning the ways in
which women may improve the condl-
tion of their homes and house work,
and is an enthusiastic advocate of the
flreless cooker. Careful buying was
one feature which she emphasized. ut
is better to think and think and then
buy" she said, "than to buy first and
then think and think. The prevailing
sentiment is opposed to careful spend
ing. 1t is in the air to buy things only
made to sell, things which have no real
| value"
Miss Hawks thinks it very poor
economy however, to buy large guam
titles of meat to cook and use for
several days Meat to be resultant of
highest vital power should be freshly
cut and cooked. Neither are houses
1 with old and defective plumbing a
good economy, for the danger to health
more than makes up for any saving in
rent.
The program was introduced by a
number of musical selections by Mrs.
Florence M. Hotchkiss, whose flexible
colorature soprano voice showed to
advantage in the MERRY Postillion,"
"a Lullaby" by Neidlinger, and a
brilliant song of the modern Italian
school.
The next meeting will be musicale,
the numbers to be given by Mrs.
Estelle Hartt Dreyfus, contralto, and
Mrs. Hennion Robinson at the piano.
The installation in Los Angeles of
| visiting nurses, whose duty it shall be
to look after convalescents when they
leave the county hospital, was the sub
| ject for discussion at the charity con-
| ference held yesterday morning at the
| chamber of commerce. The meeting
was largely attended, and with DR..
| George W. Cress in the chair many
| brilliant speeches were made, cash ad-
vocating the proposed innovation in the
advance of sanitary conditions in Los
| Angeles.
DR.. C. H Whitman of the county
| hospital spoke at length concerning
this matter and said that many of the
| convalescents when discharged from
the hospital return to their homes,
and finding inadequate care, suffer
from relapses, and soon become pa
tients at the hospital again. He be-
| lieves that by having possibly ten
nurses, to teach hygienic care and the
| Importance of sanitary conditions in
the homes where chronic invalids and
convalescents live, a radical improve
ment in the general health of the COM
munity would be evident.
DIR. Ross Moore gave many points
concerning the work of the visiting
nurses ip Boston, where a well estab-
| lished system offers an admirable
model for Los Angeles.
| DIR. Walter Jarvis Barlow spoke par
ticularly with reference to the tuber-
culosis cases and the Infection which
is so frequent through ignorance of
proper preventive precautions.
A committee of ten representatives
of the various charity organizations
of the city was appointed to meet with
the board of directors of the Associated
Charities to confer concerning this
plan. These persons will constitute
| the committee: DR.. c.. H. Kress. H.
! w. Lewis, Mrs. N E, Wilson, Mrs.
| Chalmers Smith, Isaac Norton, DIR.
Ross Moore, DR.. c. H. Whitman DIR.
Walter Jarvis Barlow DR.. Eliot Alden
and Dr. Titan J. Coffey.
DR. Coffey made telling address,
urging the proper protection of the
unmarried mother.
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The w. S. Rosecrans social study
class will meet this afternoon at the
home of Mrs. Aileen Anderson, 903
West First street The subject to be
studied is Modern Drama"
The Teachers club will meet this
afternoon at the Y. w. c. A. building
to listen to an address by Robert
Watchorn on Immigration and Ex-
periences at Ellis Island"
The next meeting of the club will be
a social meeting in June, which will
be a farewell reception for DR.. E. c.
Moore.
The Parent Teacher association of
| the Norwood street school will give
musical for the benefit of the Utah
| street nursery Friday evening at the
residence of Mrs. H. V. Davis, corner
Twenty-first and Union avenue.
The following program has been ar
ranged:
Selection. Norwood street school or
chestra: piano solo. Mrs. Judson Davis:
vocal solo. Mrs. Mabee, accompanied
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