Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1881 — How English Wives Keep House. [ARTICLE]

How English Wives Keep House.

English wives, high and low, keep household accounts In a way that wdurfdsurprise many American woman- ittYpry. penny spent in the house gqes down hi the “housekeeper’s .book,” with which every mistress of a hohtehdM h provided. Evefy bill is filed away carefully whan receipted. In fact, a perfect system of order prevails, which enables every man too know exactly what It costs him t *p his home. Tn that country every, expenditure is made to bear its ptpjjqr relation, to the income received, i House rent must be only such a percedtage,r*tlftle outlay so much, servantte wages so much, children’s schooling, so much, alms-giving so PHjSbi apd if at the end of the year it is found that the income hm been exceeded those people immediately proceed to ’edaoe items in every department, Tbs general style pi their living remains about the same, but it is necessarily not quite so genuine.