New Britain herald., 1925-01-13
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WI icoi " our puEliul uuty as guardians of the public veal to re- mind you of your New Years resolu- tions. Not the ones about getting up in the morning or keeping diary or ones temper or pruning one's lam guage--those may rest in peace till next January. We are concerned with those sober December 26 refiec- tions on the subjects of budgets. &C., counts, and saving money.
 If you want to strengthen your moral fibre and supplement your zeal with practical information let us commend to you Getting Your Moneys Worth by Isabel Ely Lord. We know person who bought 65 cents worth of cards to keep a budg- ct on after tho excited perusal of that particular chapter. It gives a beautiful system of keeping accounts and classifying your budget and training the children and using the bank and making your clothes wear to the bitter end.
 Save and Have is the alluring title of another which more particularly for family use. That also tells about budgets and which things go under higher life" and which under ne- cessities. It speciallzes on cutting the cost of food by buying in quantity, eliminating expensive and non- essentials, and avoiding waste.
 It is quite '.mazing what can be done with leftovers especially when you don't contlne your Investigations to the wherewithel for hash and cro- quettes. Wealth from Waste is a very thorough analysis of all kinds of waste, time, life, hCalth, fatigue, food. and coal. In tEc second part MT. Spooner tells what has been done to salvage apparently useless materials. This includes the most extraordinary assortment of eco- monies suggested and described ranging from the manufacture of Olii dlu hOlSV SiOS ldii' to picking up ones hairpins.
 New Thrift by Hall is very pep py little book with much good sensi- ble advice couched In colloquial lan- guage. He talks particularly about saving time and energy and using Judgment in ones economies. He is very hard on the person who wastes six dollars an hour time on untylng string unless he is resting his mind thereby as well as "economizing."
 How to Save Money by Fowler dis cusses petty extravagances, taking speculative chances and investing and depositing ones money after it has been saved. Making Use of a Bank by Fitzgerald tells the things that all business men and most or dinary people ought to know about the services bank can render, about loans credit security, kinds of notes and bills, types of banks, etc. Bor- rowing From Your Bank is little book stating very clearly just how to go about getting ready money from a bank and incidentally gives considerable information about the uses and operation of banks.
 Then if your 'satiable curiosity" leads you to want to straighten out more or less vague ideas about the technical definitions Of money clear ing houses, gold standard and the Federal Reserve system you may be induced to consult Holdswo"th's very excellent text on Money and Bank ing.
 j Investment a New Profession by Sturgis is more particularly for stoch brokers as it tells just how to an alyze a business and decide whether it is safe and suitable for invest ment. The principles hold for the amateur investigator also however.
 School savings banks are much more important than most of us realize in training children to handle money wisely. School Savings Bank ing by the American Bankers asso- c!ation discusses the value of school savings, the laws governing it and practical methods for organizing and stimulating 1t in the schools.
 Speaking of children, brings us back again to home saving. Cheat ing the Junk Pile is book one should look over before buying any thing from an icebox to an electric washer. It describes the newest de- vices for taking the drudgery out Of housework and tells what to look for in inspecting them. Typical chapter headings are "Electrocuting the Wash" Keeping Out of Hot Water" Taking the Guesswork Out of Gas Cookery"
 Economy cook books have four ished since the war and we leave you to choose among Better Meals for Less Money by Green; Thrift Cook Book by Neil; Low Cost Cooking by Nesbitt; Practical Food Economy by Kirk; and One Piece Dinnerss by 1 Chambers. One can even pc ecu nomical in candy making according to Candy Making Revolutionized by Hall which gives delicious sounding recipes for using all kinds of vegeta- bles in sweets.
 Are YOU a blond or brunette or inst "meium" and do you know what colors you should wear and which to avoid like the plague Winterburn's principles of correct dress tells you what kind Of clothes kto make Cor buy) if you are slim plump, tall, short, young, old or of years undetermined.
 Fabrics and How to Know Them by Denny tells how to tell wool and linen from cotton, what kinds oi cloth wear best for which purposes and gives general advice on picking out materials.
 Books on plain sewing mustn't be