Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-31
Plan for Spending and Saving
Care in Buying Food and Articles Classed as Bar
gains-Gt1ard Your Possessions While Shopping.

Prepare a plan for spending and
koep accounts. Adopt a form suitable
to your needs and keep the record
Regularly This is what business mer
tall a budget.
The whole idea of budgetihg is to
toanas-e YOUR money instead of letting
jt manage you. To make budget
means to work out your philosophy OF
life. because you first must know
what YOU want to get out of lie be
fore YOU can decide just what things
YOU want to spend your money tof.
Eudgeting is outlining your policy.
Every one knows that the most
characteristic thing about money is
the ease Wi h which it slips away. out
q strict and careful accounting stays
the process more than anything else.
10 consider when you spent and where
Nou spent leads to your query as to
why YOU spent Then you will fire.
uuently realize that about half of that
spending was foolish. That brings
you to saving q fourth, or perhaps a
tenth. of that foolish half, and that
tenth saved may make all the differ
ence in your future happiness ana
prosperity.
You must first have a correct sense
of values. Know what is most I'M
portant to fundamental happiness. at
least for you, then go after it. Buy
the cloth of life before you spend
money for decorations. Being thrifty
doesn't mean being stingy 1t doesn't
mean an endless sacrifice. Ii simply
means getting the most for your
money.
Following is a budget outline:
1 Estimate the total income from
ell sources. such as salary, interest,
rent, and SO on. If the income is
irregular. it is better to estimate on
the smallest amount, although 1t Is
quite correct to estimate on the aver
age.
2. Subtract the income tax, if any,
from the total income.
3. Subtract the amount you wish TO
kave, which includes life insurance,
building payments, savings banks and
all in that class.
4. The remaining income, which is
the working income, should be divided
into five parts and must provide for
adequate food. safe shelter, suitable
clothing, necessary operating eX-
penses and allow for personal ex-
penditures, usually classed as lad
Fancement.
Buying Pure Food. =
Pure food will give the body the
elements it needs to maintain it in
health in all seasons and under all
conditions. The purer the foodstuffs
taken in at the mouth, the less the
combative forces of the body are
called upon, with resultant benefit to
the bodybuilding processes. Impur-
1ties and concentrations throw the
delicate organization of the body out
of gear, so that it is of the utmost
Importance that some assurance
should be given with every food
preparation bought as to it's source,
or origin and freedom from con-
tamination.
When we speak Of pure foods we
mean compounds of elements which
build the body and help the blood
TO eliminate waste. They are pure
because they contain no harmful in
gradients, pure because all their in
gradients blend into a harmonious
and health-giving whole. pure be-
cause there is no ingredient which re-
acts adversely on any of the others
and because they are not adulterated.
Their chemical composition we can
leave to the scientists, but their nour
fishing properties and enticing fiavors
are matters which concern us all.
If our food is to be beneficial al
ways, we must be assured that the
utmost has been done to preserve its
original condition, il raw; that every
precaution has been taken to make it
steriliZed. if cooked; and that no dele
FERROUS matter has entered it during
transit from its source. To be safe
on these matters, we should buy the
products of dealers who have suffi-
cient faith in their goods to advertise
them. When an article is good, and
the manufacturer or distributor knows
1t is good, the more he proclaims the
fact, the greater will his reputation
grow and the firmer will his good will
be established. If he says his product
Is good when it is not, he will outrage
public confidence at his first sale.
When in doubt as to what to eat
test the claims of advertised goods.
Put your faith in those which chal-
lenge the searchlight of publicity, eat
With confidence those which are sold
under q guarantee, and give your fam,
1y the foods which you know from
experience keep energy high and the
doctors bill low. Advertisers set
themselves standards from which it is
unwise to depart. They make claims
which they are bound to live up to