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Show ECONOMY TO BE TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS Chicago. Aug. HI A new system of household economics la to be introduced intro-duced into Chicago by the new two-year two-year vocational course In the Chicago high schools. One of the studies that Ihe girls who take the household arts course will have to master is named "division of income " Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, superintendent of schools, says that the girls are going to' know how io split up a pay check so closely that they will foresee a needed yeast cake four days ahead "We want, the young wife to understand un-derstand what part of the family income in-come should be devoted to the home." said Mrs. Young. "We want her to know how to spend It. She will be taught in the high school to watch the daily papers for the market prices and to know just what things should cost from day to day. "When she sees a thing she wants we want her to be able to figure out whether she cau really afford It, whether It will be worth as much to her as It copts. She must take her husband's check and Hgure out what per cent go for rent, rood, fuel, light and all the other needs of a home. When she gets through her husband can take care of bis insurance, clothing cloth-ing and the other essentials." |