The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-25

her to buy food direct finn 81,
city markets or from chain ST. s..s
They will coach her in buying ~ ~
tiles, so that she will perceive -
dIneFence between all-yool 80
shoddy, and advise her in rr-,L a'.u
ing furniture, so that She 10. 10
know the genuine from the init
ton. '''''a-
Experience has shown that fhr;s.
Is often particularly .laclipg a. ~
families of the upper middle Sl.s.
where the income is suhstapt{a5
Thus, in a case brought to tbs :.
tentlon of a pioneer home-sayings
expert not long ago. a man wboss
income averaged $500 a month co,.
planned that his family was unsbl.
to save anything and that il o..
ran into debt. The home savis--
expert went over his list of horzs-
hold expenses and immediafsI.
saw that a large part of his saIsry
was going to servants. five hsir-
employed TO do the work of a com
paratively small household. 81.
advised him to discharge these fco
and employ two in their plaes
which effected a saving Of owe,
5000 a month.
Women Ignorant of Money.
According to this home savjBvg
expert, the ignorance of women m
financial matters is sometimes an
palling. In one case in which sbs
was personally interested, for ey.
ample, young woman acuuaint
ance from a small town in ths
northern part of the state came IN
New York as a bride and went IN
live in an attractive apartment on
Riverside drive. Shortly aftervar5
her husband was compelled to Pa
TO Canada on d business trip. Tia
home savings expert CHANGED 20
pay her first call on the couple the
day that he had departed and found
the young bride sobbing violently
Come. now, don't cry" soothe5
the good lady, putting a maternal
arm around the girl. "Of course.
you will miss him
81 shan't," replied the bride, CIV.
ing harder than ever. Il shant
miss him a bit. He has done a ter.
ribIe thing, and 1 will never, never
forgive him
BY degrees, the home savings eI-
pert learned from the fearful bride
that her husband had gone away
without leaving her any money
The situation appeared serious.
Il reminded him just before be
left" explained the young wife.
land he said he had left a check for
me on the desk. He did leave the
check, but he neglected to fill it
out. Oh"-Chere she wept VIC
IentIy AGAIN. 4 know he did it de-
liberately."
The home savings expert walked
over to the desk and picked up the
guilty check, looked hard at it. and
then burst out laughing.
"You don't deserve such a hus-
band, my dear" she declared. -YOg
really should be ashamed Of your
self. Here the good man has leh
you a perfectly nice signed cbecs
and trusted you to fill IN ths
amount yourself"
On the whole, though this WON
an believes, women OF the simple
doll type are growing very rare
The majority of , modern women
she says. take great pride in their
own capability, show much skill ID
managing their finances, and SCI
dom allow themselves 10 get ths
worst of a bargain Considering
that they have never been specially
trained for buying goods they a,s
remarkably successful i'm the ua1-
agement of their household 5usl-
ness, but this innate ability caf15.
wholly compensate for a lack Of
training, The most c0mfortabs
contented homes are those where
thrift prevails and the tan-I
finances are Systematically dlstHo
uted by means of budget