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Fo^ verification, however, and help in reducing other recipes to the same form, it may be said that one tablespoon full and pressed down by the hand, is held to equa ounce of most things, save suet, which is only half an ounce. One Eno-lish egg also equals two tablespoons : therefoie 1 1 Stepoon ^vilfbe found the best unit, and it .s the one “‘‘X' speak of . gill : it is a quarter of a pint. Weight and measures for medicines must be accuia . The latter requires a properly graduated glass but in I^eigel?; it lay be remembered that a ^op rs nearly but as a rule not quite, one minim ; and a new r up weighs 180 grains or 3 drachms, an eigl\t-anna bit 90 grams TrLchms, and a four-anna bit 45 grams or f of a diachm. Hence the following : — . , ^ Since one drachm, apothecaries i , and a four-anna bit Jo « . tp^refore, a four-anna Iwirisions. Any native jeiveller tv.ll do tins. CHAPTER III ACCOUNTS It is perhaps a not sufficiently considered fact that all public servants in India are bound to keep written accounts showing their total yearly receipts and expenditure. Apart^ however, from the question of duty, there can be none as to the jiractical utility of being able at a glance to see how the money has gone, and how much you can spare for those things which raise life beyond the mere thought for what we are to eat and drink, and wherewithal we are to be clothed. Again, in justice to your own honesty, it is wiser to have a safeguai-d against the risk of slander, which of late years has greatly increased in India, and must continue to increase until the great mass of the people cease to look on bribery as a part of the routine of life. It becomes a wife’s duty, therefore, to see that this j)recaution is not neglected ; and as it is, undoubtedly, better in every way that the person who makes the payments should be responsible for the accounts and keep the purse, it appears very desirable that at the outset married people should settle between themselves who is to undertake the duty. For ourselves, we believe a woman to be far more capable of undertaking the somewhat irritating drudgery of detailed accounts. At the same time, there is no reason why the husband should escape all respon- sibility, but we believe that, as in a lower rank of life, middle-class households will run most economically, and what is more, most smoothly, where the man has the courage and trust to bring all his earnings to the Avoman. Men are apt to say, however, that a young girl entering on life can have no experience in such matters. True ; there- fore the sooner she buckles to the task the better, and with a very little help at first, and the usual monthly audit and consultation, there is small chance of failure, especially in »9 The Complete Indian 20 tl.pse d ws of Hirii Schools and University Extensions. At t rsatrume e®ven men are often tvoefuily at a loss how ‘trset lbout making a detailed reeord expend^ a^^ heln such as find this a difficulty, one ot the autnois appends a series of forms, which she has used for years wit i FonitT s^otM bTrided in a foolscap folio of not than monthly expenditure on of all household fsome detail, and every n.istress she may wish to reeord, we f „|,ieh ca?, rule one or two openmgs t„ keep all then be modWed if neeessary the idea being cash payments close ‘b made up monthly, , J^^f;"Sm Receipt and expenditure,