Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1911 — Faulty System. [ARTICLE]

Faulty System.

“My dear,” said the trusting wife.. "I don’t think your rules of economy* are any good.” “You don’t?’ asked the fond hus~ tatfkd. i “No,” she replied, bending anew over the column of flgnres In her beautifully bound expense book. “You told me the way to save money was not to buy things—that thus we could save the amount the goods would have cost us. So I have been careful to set down the exact price of everything 1 have wanted to buy but felt I could not afford. I find, In adding it up, it amounts to 1456.88, hut. I only have $2.35 in cash on hand. There must be something wrong with your theory.” -