Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-06-25
Accounts Produced by His Wife Tell
Their Story of How Prices Have
Generally Gone Up.
HE BELIEVED LACK OF
SYSTEM TO BE RESPONSIBLE
Silenced When He Goes Over Record
Of Ten Years and He Increases
Her Allowance.
By Elliott Flower.
Who gets the money!

Who gets the money!
That is the question that every
housekeeper has been asking Of himself
in somewhat bewildered way, just as
he might null the famous problem,
"How old is Ann9" Likewise he
has been making inquiries of his wife
usually with some acerbity, but here
the question changes Its form somewhat
and becomes "Where does the money
gol"
That is the form of the domestic
problem, and it has made a lot of trou-
BILE. The question amounts to the same
thing in either form, but the latter puts
it up to the woman little stronger,
and it is man s nature to put his trou-
blesome domestic problems up to his
wife in such form as to imply that she
is somehow to blame.
Where does the money go'
Women have been trying to explain
that to their husbands all over the
country, and one of them did explain
it, incidentally shedding upon her hus-
band a little needed light relating to
the high cost of living and showing
from an individual point of view just
how that cost has increased. He ad-
mits it himself.
"I had been growing for a long
time" he said in relating the story.
"I thought I had reason to growl,
and had. We all have. l don t know
where the trouble lies; but we all have
reason to growl thought knew
more about it then than / do now, for
l thought good share Of the blame
rested upon Ellen. knew the cost of
living was going up, of course-I
couldn't read the papers without know
ing that-but 1 didn't believe it was
responsible for all the trouble in my
case, Ellen was always needing more
money. She had a household allow.
ance, but it wouldn't reach. If she
made it reach, we didn't live as well
as formerly, and I objected to that.
wanted to live as well as we had al
ways lived, and l was willing to make
some financial concessions to the in
creased cost of living, but they did not
seem to be enough. Ellen needed more
THE trouble with you women 1
declared, is that you don't know how
to manage. If you would get down to
a business basis and run the home on
the same principles that a shop or fac
tory is run you wouldn't have any
trouble. System That's what you
need-systeml'
Don't jump to conclusions" he
added quickly. "I was no such fool
as to undertake to run the house my
self to show her how, as they do in
stories Every man to his own bust.
ness, and mine is not housekeeping I
would as soon think of stepping into
a factory of which l have only super
ficial knowledge and attempting to
run that as of attempting to take
charge Of the house, but there are Ger.
tain broad financial principles that
you can lay down for any business,
and ! attempted to lay these down for
Ellen. But / got jolt, for she knew
little about business herself
Gould you run your business at
the same cost if you were paying more
for the raw materials' she asked.
But l am allowing you more for
your raw materials, l reminded her.
Not enough more she declared.
''I still insisted that waste and lack
of system were in large part RESPONSE
BILE for the trouble, and we had quite q
heated argument, which / later had
cause to regret, for when l got home
the next night she produced her ae-
count books for the preceding ten years