Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-07-13
Business of Being
a Good Housewife
By Mrs. Jean Prescott adams,
Director Domestic Science
Department.
Is. Wheeler Syndicate. Inc.)

DO you really know that you are saw
! ns in the y oportion that your country
eeds? Unless you keep a budget you
can not be sure that you arc doing
] your patriotic duty In saving.
! Personal thrift Is considered in this
connection only in far as II enables
! 10 put more money into war activi =
les The big issue is for US to elimi-
rate all demands for non-esscntials.
Even before the war home managing
was considered the greatest business In
/ The world. No patriotic home manager
VIII undertake the responsibility OF DIS
irioutinS the family income without y
studied method of keeping accounts.
Professor Scott. OF the University Of
Wisconsin in recent Tribune editorial
entitled Save till il Hurts" makes the
very wise observation that IL is often
the incidentals which wreck the family
bank account. The institution OF a
household budget would be the means
OF adjusting these unnecessary expen-
ditures and would correct our happy-
go-iucky hand-to- mouth fashion OF
living.
One cannot live in a hapaazard way
and Keep system OF accounting. Slch
disnihed methods require planning
ahead. You VIII find upon investi.a
ZION that every successful house wife is
Hrst successful business manager.
ne country has daily increasing need
Tor such home managers. BY organic
ing her affairs every woman gains for
herself greater liberty that can aow be
turned into definite war winning work.
WAR NEEDS DETERMINE
STANDARDS IN HOMES
II you have NOT organized your bus.-
ness. now is the time to set sail The
logical place TO begin sys;ematizins is
on the expenditures. The living stand
ards OF every home must be based upon
the incoTe. Ideals may soa. hut ex-
ptnditures must be kept withia :he set
amount.
The budget should be family affair
the work OF dividing the income AMI
esta olish!ng standards should he dono
by husband and wife and as the chill
dren grow old enough TO understand the
value and use OF money. they should be
taken into the council. Family discus
sion or these matters brings the mem
eers OF the family closer together and
inst!lls Into each pride in doing his
share.
To apportion this income that the
FAMILY may so live as to increase
their efficiency and so eventually raise
the income is no small task. 1t has
been truly said that 1t takes a $1,000
woman to run home on a $500 in
come.
y simple. practical intemized house
hold account system can be kept as
follows Across the top OF the two
open pages of Rood-sized notebook
one about eight by eleven inches
write the month and year. Down tn.
lcft-hand margin run the dates from
LIST to 3lst-2 Rule perpendicular COL
umns one and onc-half inch wide and
head columns according to your ex-
penditures-Meat, Groceries, Bakery.
Milk, Help. Carfare. furnishings.
Clothing and Miscellaneous. Each will
require an entire column.
Such expenses as rent or It's equiva-
lent In payments on n home. etc. in
surance. light. heat, doctor. that arc
met once a month, and charity, amusa-
ments and advancement, that are huc-
tuating items. may we'll be run in one
column with payment dated. Make the
last column a trihe wider than the
rest and double-rule it OFF. In this.
register your income and balance your
accounts.
Attach pencil to your notebook so
IL VIII always be there and keep the
DOCK either on your desk or in the
Kitchen, where it Is handy. and make
a practice of registering your expenses
each day.
y foot note space on each page makes
good diary. You can jot down your
war saving expenses in foods in this
space and make your budget a book
or historic value to your family. Also
all war investments and donations will
DC entered as such. and 1t will be A
satisfaction when the boys come back
for you to have your service hook
that shows how Won did vour mart