Show HOUSEHOLD ECONOMY the prevail iX innet among american of all G riles ri ulc Is I 1 it if the que question antion were what one quality in lit it woman roost most coni conduces luies to a happy home I 1 should say frugality and economy and if ir what quality in n a man most conduces to home happiness I 1 should repeat economy and frugality the great american crime is want of rational economy the woman wastes in the parlor and kitchen the man nian wastes everywhere there Is no class that la Is careful of outgoes no one man or woman in ona one hundred keeps an account of personal expenses it if our schools lq instead of the rule of three would teach the children the simplest elements of plain bookkeeping mathematics would be of some value the farmer who once puts down in figures his expenditures and his income and honestly writes down his losses hy by bad careless ness dess will be on the road to amendment every housekeeper should have a slate hanging in the kitchen on which to jot down daily exposes expenses and a pocket account book to see bow quickly slips away when statistics prove that average life la is provided with tar far more comforts than fifty yeara years ago and I 1 look about at the amount now expended in lit a year compared w with I 1 th w what it at was formerly needed I 1 wonder how much it will take to satisfy the wants 0 of f a family fifty years hence there is not a question but halt half of our boys and girls are harmed by too free use of money and arid the other half by being jealous and dissatisfied where will be the end of indulgence the antidote la Is twofold we must ed educate licate them to restrain their desires and very early to earn in proportion to their expenditures di tures every child should be brought up to feel a responsibility for the household I 1 see girls daily that are surely preparing for misery heaven help a man who Is inveigled into marrying such a woman an fn A n she has and can lave lave no idea of earning earning or saving she only considers a husband as a purveyor and provider he ile in turn loses his highest aim alm in life home nome is a hopeless idea ne never verto to be gratified his ills ideals dr drop down he lie becomes a clubman an it if rich a toured man it if poor this one thought ought to be uppermost in training tt ti make our young people helpful and the girls to comprehend the duty of being helpmates help mates dut about ilece necessity it Is true that most of those who arc are supposed to be above tho the necessity of 0 kitchen work really are sot so I 1 know the inside truth about many families and the slave in the majority of cases is the husband he ile has no leisure in life from money making we women are creating a detestable class of men money makers on ft a moderate I 1 income neome they know that their family Is not constituted to bo be happy the outgoes are from one fourth to three fourths for things that could be spared without suffering their Is nothing BO so honorable aa as toll toil and this every one without exception should be made to feel the work of the world should iw be evenly distributed aa as a privilege and a joy As for or menial work it is generally such by inference it I 1 that which bows skill should BO so many thousands of 0 our women consider cooking and cleaning as out of their province A woman that does not need to sweep a floor should nevertheless do it and do it well into vassar and into our common schools mut go the inculcation of a nobler spirit it makes very little difference whether it be in a rich home or a poor one but a corn com p laining spirit and arid a wasteful one spoils all comfort some one has eaid said that one half bait ot of the production ot of the united states gets wasted lie ile laid special stress on the bad habits ot of those who cultivate the oil and handle crops my special trouble is W with ith those of us who waste in the household I 1 am not urging penuriousness but eLl economy onomy there la is no escape from our young couples should SWUM be trained formally to a study ot of ways and means it Is insanity n to start out in life ahead of income or even flush with it I 1 wish all young married couples were compelled by law to go to a school of domestic economy tor for one year after marriage st louis globe democrat |