Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1917 — ST. PAUL HUSBANDS TO KEEP ACCOUNTS [ARTICLE]

ST. PAUL HUSBANDS TO KEEP ACCOUNTS

THEIR WIVES HAVE FORMED HOME MANAGEMENT CLASS Believe That High Cost of LlvIng Can be Kept _ Down. L Manage your household or personal affairs In a business-like waypay cash and do not run bills. 2. Save a fixed sum every month and as much more as circumstances will permit. 3. Memorise this rule and use it to measure purchases : “Never spend money for anything which does not add to physical health or mental health or moral health.” 4. Do your own buying and marketing. You alone know what should be bought to do your family the most good. 5. Have simple meals, of good pure food, well cooked and served. Remember there is no economy In inferior quality, but that a reduction in quantity is often necessary for health. 6. Don’t indulge in foods and drinks between meals. Amusement at the expense of one’s own health is expensive indeed. 7. Buy only simple, well made furnishings and furniture. They cost less to clean and last longer. 8. Do not buy an article for which you have no definite use. Once you are past the "bargain table” the desire for possession leaves you. ft. Don’t buv ‘‘faddy** clothes to be soon discarded. Think of price and wearing qualities as well as of style. 10. Run your expenditures on a strict budget plan, devised and revised until it fits your individual family needs. —Rules of the Housewives' League. St. Paul husbands whose wives belong to the “home management" class hereafter will be obliged to give a detailed account of their daily expenditures in order to combat the high cost of living by means of a conscientious record of accounts. The plan was outlined by Mrs. Harvey M. Hickok of Minneapolis, who gave the second of a. series of lectures under the auspices of the Housewives' League. A number of St. Paul wives asserted It was impossible to get their husbands to give an account One Said her husband became resentful when asked how much he had spent for cigars or if he had lunched with a friend. - Another aaid her husband always maintained the silence of a martyrand - w’dFe atookvfintttry. Mrs. Hickok advised them to explain the situation more clearly, but not to give up. “Get him accustomed to giving an account of his expenditures and be frank about your own,” she said. —St Paul Pioneer-