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Show Keep Accounts. Keeping household acconnts is an affair, af-fair, if not of necessity, still of the greatest great-est wisdom. In comparison with the small amount of time and labor which the doing so employs, the satisfaction of knowing, at the end of each year, how the family funds have gone is the amplest compensation. One especial satisfaction sat-isfaction gained from the keeping of household accounts is the ability, when or if the necessity arises, to reduce expenditures ex-penditures on the outlay for luxuries and unnecessaries. The money spent for food, for medicines or for fuel is capable capa-ble of far less reduction than that used for amusements, for wages or for clothing, cloth-ing, and a system of accounts which will show at once where expenses can be lessened is entitled to respectful consideration. con-sideration. Philadelphia Times. |