Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-03-15
WEDNESDAY.

WEDNESDAY.
AS soon as Mrs Hooper finished her
| ironing she prepared to devote the re-
mainder of the afternoon until tea time
arranging her business corner" in the
kitchen. Roger had put up two shelves
above the small pine table and on the
top one shetarranged the few books that
made up her kitchen library, and to
which she hoped to keep adding and ON
the lower one she put her boxes holding
her household records and recipe files.
Roger had stained the table and on it she
tackled a large square of blue blotting
paper. A heavy fat inkwen that wouldn't
tip over a bottle of library paste and a
covered box holding pencils, pens, and
eraser, rGbber bands and paper clips and
a spike to hold bills till they were paid
were placed On top and in the drawer she
stored away her account books, check
book bill file and other bookkeeping aids.
Mrs. Hooper had no patience with
women who spent time and energy hunt
ing and ransacking all over the house,
pulling out drawers and mussfng up
rooms in a wild search for some bill or
recipe or piece Of paper on which some
necessary information was written. She
contended that it was a very easy matter
to gather all these things into one special
corner ant with any system Of arrange
ment that happened to appeal to one to
keep them Il convenient order at all
times. 1t was one means of doing away
with waste motion that Mrs. Hooper had
carefully worked out in the old home at
Mayfield. The plan which she had
evolved there she intended to improve on,
however, and the first step had been TO
move her business corner" from the liY-
| ing room where it had always been in the
! Mayf1eld house to the kitchen as she had
arranged it here
Years ago Mrs. Hooper had begun her
| system Of having her addresses in a book
and cooking recipes pasted In scrap
book and clippings fled in envelopes.
but there was a lack Of uniformity about
| this that had never satisfied her and
her books and envelopes were quite
I likely to be lost or mislaid when she
wanted them as the information they
contained. Another thing that bothered
her was that this haphazard way OF
keeping track Of things made no proyi-
sion for data that kept accommodating.
Finally out of all her experimenting she
had evolved a fling system that was very
satisfactory. At Mayfeld she had kept
her household accounts in a book but
/ here she decided to use the card sys-
tenn She had bought 4x6-inch ruled
dollar q thousand; twenty cards with
a special tab on top called guide cards"
and a small wooden box with q cover
that cost 30 cents. On each one Of
the tab cards" was written the name
/ Of the subdivisions of her budget; shell
ter. food, clothing. operating expenses,
advancement, savings. Then heading
each one Of the plain ruled cards were
the expenditures that came under the
budget divisions. The shelter section
held cards o. rent, (2) taxes, 80 fire
| insurance, a. repairs, (5) interest on
mortgage. Food cards were: ~ meat,
! ~ fish, 90 groceries, a. dairy sup
plies, 10 fruit and vegetables, 90 ice,
"a outside meals. Clothing: ~ new
garments (2) dress materials and sup
plies, 80 tailor and dressmaker. Operat-
ing expenses: a. fuel and light, 90 fur
nishings and household supplies, so serv-
ice and laundry, a. telephone. 90
water. Advancement. a. church, (2)
newspapers, go theaters. a. doctor,
(5l dentist, (6) druggist supplies.
Savings: o. life insurance, (2) real
81 liberty bonds.
These were all placed upright in the
box and whenever she bought anything
she Suffered the price Of it on the
proper card, and on each card there was
plenty Of room to put the total spent on,
any one item for every day In the month,
with a space at the bottom to write the
monthly total for shelter, food, Clothes
operating expenses, advancement and saw
ings. With this system it was a simple
matter to make up the monthly balance
which was also to be entered on card.
But household accounts were not tha
only necessary data that Mrs. Hooper
was constantly needing to put her hands
on in a hurry. Besides her housekeeping
file she now decided to add another
household record file where she could
keep all the other data necessary for a
complete history Of the business Of runs
ming the Hooper family. For this she
decided to buy a large record file to"
morrow when she went to town. They
cost 81 with the plain ruled cards, tab
cards, two sets Of alphabet cards and a
wooden box, but she determined to hsTe
it as a good investment in future come
fort.
The menus for the three meals on
Thursday are;
BREAKFAST.
Baked Apples