Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-02-08
The HOopers Tell
HOW FGUe LiUe on
ULIT7sited Income
Problems of Home SOLUed by
Practical Budget GiUen
Daily in Times.

1.-THE Hoopers. an average American
family of FIVE. living in a suburban
town, on a limited Income, VII tell
the readers of the Daily Times how
the many present day problems OF
the home are solved by working on
the budget that Mrs Hooper has
evolved and found practical Follow
them daily in an interesting review
Of their home life and learn to meet
the conditions of the high cost OF
living with them
WEDNESDAY.
True to her promise to be helpful by
going around house-hunting with Mrs.
Hooper, the neighbor who lived on the
III or below, Mrs. Elkins, appeared
promptly at two o'clock ready to start.
with no idea of being ungrateful for
the help that was being offered her,
which would make 1t so much easier for
her to find her way about in a strange
place, Mrs Hooper couldn't help wishing
that she could have had the Bride in
stead to help her select her new home.
1 still think You are foolish to cut
out all the apartments and not even look
at Them" said her new friend, as they
went down stairs from the third floor
where the Brown apartment was located.
apartments" said Mrs. Hooper firmly.
Even Mr.. Hooper, who favored one at
hrst, has come to my way Of thinking
that we can be very much more comfort
able in some kind of a house."
Il wouldn't go so far as to say you
would be more comfortable said Mr..
Elkins, nothing TO my way Of thinking
is more comfortable than an apartment.
But Of course you may like It better and
1t may seem more like home and if You
are fussy housekeeper 1 suppose you
can make the place seem like it be-
longed to you instead Of like a hundred
other peoples houses"
Il suppose we viii have to take the car
to this first address," said Mrs. Hooper
looking at the list that the real estate
man had given her.
'Oh no we can walk to that" said Mrs
Elkins, its only a few blocks from here
and very good street and not far from
the high school"
Il have to take the location into con-
sideration as well as the kind Of house"
said Mrs Hooper, because I'd like easy
walking distance to the Office for Mr..
Hooper and then not have it too far from
the schools for the children"
ell we believe a person can find
almost anything he wants in Indian
apolis If he only looks for it," laughed
Mrs. Elkins as they walked along the
first city block. but I never saw any
one with her mind SO made up to things
as you are Mrs. Hooper and l hone Won
won't be disappointed in your search"
4 believe you think it would serve me
right if after all I'd have 10 come to
your way OF thinking about living in an
apartment"
1T certainly seems to me to be the
only sensible way TO live in a city" re-
pied Mrs. Elkins, but every one to his
taste"
The first place they inspected looked
very inviting from the outside and Mrs
Elkins thought it was a dear if any
one really wanted a house and not an
apartment, but Mrs. Hooper found that
1t was badly arranged and that while it
was listed as having seven rooms. three
OF them were so small that in her esti-
nation they were little more than closets.
This wouldn't do at all" said Mrs
Hooper, "the way these rooms are laid
out would keep a person working all the
time. Il would be absolutely impossible
to make any time schedule for your
daily homework and keep to il in a
house where you have to keep going
back and forth over the same ground
constantly"
For goodness sake exclaimed Mrs.
Elkins. you don't budget your time the
way you do your income do your"
Il certainly do" said Mrs. Hooper.
land I've always been as careful about
the outlay of my time as I am OF nv
money. It's the only way to accomplish
anything and have little leisure besides
when one is keeping house"
We'll that's the queerest fdea / ever
heard said Mrs. Elkins looking at her
new friend curiously. You sure do take
life seriously"
The menus for the three meals on
Thursday are:
BREAKFAST
Orange Juice Cereal
Hash on Toast
Mullins Coffee
LUNCHEON
Boiled Rice
Creamed Shopped Beef
Bread and Butter
Cookies Fruit
Cocoa
DINNER
Rice Tomato Soup
Pot Roast Vegetables
Brown Potatoes
Steamed Cabbage
Chocolate Corns.sreh Pudding