Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-11-15
Family Prosperity is Due
to Good Home Findcing

care of them, it behooves us to know
how to live wisely while we alk
young. There is only one way TO
save money, and that is to take it
right out of the salary the very first
day of the month. The greatest diff
ficulty seems to be with people hav-
ing incomes between $1,000 and ST.
| 500. They do not always know how
to spend the money to the best adj
vantage and they have acquired
habits that would need more money
to satisfy nowadays. Some people
want to seem richer than they are.
1t is said that $4,000, 100000 are
spent on household expenses annual
ly. The purchasing power of one
dollar depends entirely on the man or
woman who spends it. The spending
of the family income, in any case,
depends on the ideals of the family
which is spending the money. The
Injuries of yesterday seem to be the
necessities of today, and the old one
horse buggy is giving way to the
automobile and the mortgage. To
adjust ones income to ones wants
and necessities is a delightful occupa-
ton. 1t does not require much in
telligence to spend SIS, but to spend
So and make it do the work of $40
requires intelligence and culture.
"The home should be the basis of
everything that is good and fine. Any
year will find it easy to live dig
nifed, comfortable life on a $4,000
income. But the family that has not
been able to live well on $4,000 with
out debt and disorder will not be able
to have a real home on $4,000. Ev-
cry woman should keep a household
account. 1t you keep an expense ac-
count you will develop skill in hand
ling money; you will develop self
control, and you will be a better
spender. You can be economical
without being stingy. The late Jas.
Hill once said, Ninety per cent of the
] money in the world is spent by wom-
i en- In New York out of 1,420 chill
dren under IL years Of age 1855 did
all the family marketing, and 800 of
the mothers were out at work all day.
You are well dressed, well-to-do men /;
don't forget that there are thousands
of women who marry men no sixty,
seventy, eighty, ninety and 500 a
month. We want to teach these
young women to know the value of a
dollar and to get 100 cents value for
every dollar spent. Take care of the
pennies and the dollars will take care
of you. There is nothing in the world
like having few hundred dollars in
the bank to make you hold your head
up and give you feeling of self
respect.
Happiness consists of earning a
little and spending little less. He
is happiest, be he king or peasant,
who finds peace in his home. We
Americans love our homes and we
want to make them the best homes
In the world. Let us get rid of false
estimates and decide to have a real
home. A quiet home with few good
books and pictures, with flowers and
shrubs or our own planting, with a
few friends and with many simple
pleasures that bring no pain or re-
greet; that is the real home. The
world is full Of hustle and hurry,
but in the home there Is time for the
pressure of loving hand, a smile.
The smile that beams from the face
of some woman in the home, whether
she be wife, mother, or sweetheart,
gives to men their inspiration when
they are in the arena and covered
with dust and sweat Of public life."