Show tt L c I Make a ct l Budget 1 J t nU G is a 11 fore forecast forest st of or our ri right ht to tu spend money It is a n prospectus of our financial capacity ll It t i is a taking of oC time lium by the forelock nn and reviewing rc our i- i before we wo make mako them It is constituting r our foresight Defter bettor than l O our J ll hindsight We Ve all know W our income ucon e fairly well but hut we get e tangled tan le up a with th our OUI is figuring fig out a n. week or 01 at a n outgo o. Making aking n a budget month in it t advance what it costs to live setting it down in in black and white while su the tho total from our earn earn- l in S s for the tho same samo period and determining how much we wo can cnn throw at the tilt birds and how much we ought to tosa save sa ve It is like fortune telling only with fi figures that do clu donot not lie tic instead of with cards that do how much mach flour how much meat how much uch m mill lk butler buller eggs soap sugar will ill we need 1 What is ig the months month's 5 proportion of the annual taxes tases o of the thc yearly water rate of rate of the general interest or It rent I How flow much for coal conI for light forgas for forgas forgas gas for for- help for landry laudry etc etc It tells us beforehand beforehand before before- hand whether we can afford to pro go o to the thc theatre 1 how tow much we can cnn give to charity whether little Mortimer whether mother molher must patch can enn have a new overcoat on or up h his is old one If f budgets arc persisted in and the full knowledge of financial finalities at the end of the month impress themselves properly at the first of the month and if we wc arc are honest with ourselves we Wc won Oil wont won't t run in in debt It is a n. sort of a shock absorber All successful business concerns make a bu budget get So Sodo do 10 all progressive cities and states stales The government gO of the United States is about to adopt the plan It Jt is is the tho I marvel manel of the age ng-c how it has survived sUl without one The rile magnitude of the Hie national debt is a patent illustration of 0 the evil cil results of a n lack lalk of forehanded system It t went through the war on a t hit miss hit miss or-miss lack of oaf business method that seta set a poor e example to the thrifty eili citizen citi cn nut Cut after all nIl making a n budget is not the only con con- I After Ailer we wc have hac carefully estimated receipts and disbursements there must come conic a n determination to to cut the corners here and lUll save a proper roper percentage b there to make sacrifices perhaps that will tug at ln- ln in indulgence in- in that will cast CUt a shadow over oer contemplated i pleasures pleasures but but there must be he no weakening weal and there II must be no 10 gloom Wc We should make a h. budget of or our our stock of gladness also and anti distribute it equitably through h the month Burdens arc are lighter when cheerfully cheer cheer- cheerfully fully borne |