Meals eaten away from home . 11 22 17 Clothing S3 99 114 Health 14 14 22 Taxes, dues and contributions . 8 9 11 Recreation and amusement . . 3 6 7 Education 5 5 7 Miscellaneous 25 32 41 Total $650 $735 $811 EXERCISES 1. What definite aims should the wise homemaker have in mind in dividing the income ? 2. What ideals should affect the amoimt spent for food ? 3. What should determine selection of the house whether owned or rented ? 4. What is meant by the operating expenses of a house ? 5. What ideals should determine the amount spent for clothing ? 6. In what ways should the *' higher life** of the family or in- dividual be considered in the division of the income? 7. Plan to keep account of every penny of spending money for one year. Look over and criticize at the end of the year. 8. Plan a budget for a family of five in your community having $1000. Suppose they have $2000, how would you change your budget ? 9. Work out with your parents a budget or schedule of probable household expenditures for your home for the next month ; the next year. ^From Chapin's "Standards of Living." By permission Russell Sage Foundation. CHAPTER XX SYSTEM EST MANAGEMENT The housekeeper should learn to use the labor-saving de- vices for her records that are now employed so largely in the world of business. This equipment should include a desk with fittings for systematized and rapid work. A roll-top desk, with pigeonholes and drawers is convenient, but a flat- topped desk with drawers below gives a larger space for writing, although it has to be supplemented by boxes to take the place of pigeonholes. Such desks may be purchased for twenty dollars and upward, in woods to match other furni- ture. It is a pleasure to have artistic desk furnishings, but a large amount may be spent on these, and the desk still be un- equipped for practical purposes. Files and loose-leaf books. — A card file is as advantageous to the housekeeper as to the business man. Some desks contain a place for the card file in the upper right-hand drawer. Guide cards are furnished in several colors to indicate divisions of the file, and these are plain, or with printed numbers and letters. The record cards also are made of several colors, to indicate different uses. The suggestions here cover only a few of the possibiHties. Visit some office furnishing department or shop to see what an array of con- veniences has been devised for the dispatch of business. If you once form the habit, you will find new uses for the card file almost daily, an i will keep on the cards, addresses, en- gagements, cash ai.counts, shopping lists, inventories of 332 SYSTEM IN MANAGEMENT ^ 333 clothing and furnishings, menus and recipes. A loose-leaf book is preferred by some people for inventories and accoimts. A letter file shaped like a pocketbook can be purchased for only twenty-five cents, and will serve the purpose for a small correspondence. Large files with guide cards are made for a larger correspondence. The small file will answer for filing bills and is useful also for clippings. Some desks have bill files in the pigeonholes, and a letter file in one of the large drawers.

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Meals eaten away from home . Clothing S3 Health Taxes, dues and contributions . Recreation and amusement . . Education Miscellaneous Total $650 $735 $811 1. What definite aims should the wise homemaker have in mind in dividing the income ? 2. What ideals should affect the amount spent for food ? 3. What should determine selection of the house whether owned or rented ? 4. What is meant by the operating expenses of a house ? 5. What ideals should determine the amount spent for clothing ? 6. In what ways should the *' higher life** of the family or individual be considered in the division of the income? 7. Plan to keep account of every penny of spending money for one year. Look over and criticize at the end of the year. 8. Plan a budget for a family of five in your community having $1000. Suppose they have $2000, how would you change your budget ? 9. Work out with your parents a budget or schedule of probable household expenditures for your home for the next month ; the next year. ^From Chapin's "Standards of Living." By permission Russell Sage Foundation. CHAPTER XX The housekeeper should learn to use the labor-saving devices for her records that are now employed so largely in the world of business. This equipment should include a desk with fittings for systematized and rapid work. A roll-top desk, with pigeonholes and drawers is convenient, but a flattopped desk with drawers below gives a larger space for writing, although it has to be supplemented by boxes to take the place of pigeonholes. Such desks may be purchased for twenty dollars and upward, in woods to match other furniture. It is a pleasure to have artistic desk furnishings, but a large amount may be spent on these, and the desk still be unequipped for practical purposes. Files and loose-leaf books. — A card file is as advantageous to the housekeeper as to the business man. Some desks contain a place for the card file in the upper right-hand drawer. Guide cards are furnished in several colors to indicate divisions of the file, and these are plain, or with printed numbers and letters. The record cards also are made of several colors, to indicate different uses. The suggestions here cover only a few of the possibiHties. Visit some office furnishing department or shop to see what an array of conveniences has been devised for the dispatch of business. If you once form the habit, you will find new uses for the card file almost daily, an i will keep on the cards, addresses, engagements, cash accounts, shopping lists, inventories of clothing and furnishings, menus and recipes. A loose-leaf book is preferred by some people for inventories and accoimts. A letter file shaped like a pocketbook can be purchased for only twenty-five cents, and will serve the purpose for a small correspondence. Large files with guide cards are made for a larger correspondence. The small file will answer for filing bills and is useful also for clippings. Some desks have bill files in the pigeonholes, and a letter file in one of the large drawers.

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