Services (including wages of 2 maids, laundry, ashes removed, snow shoveled, rugs beaten, windows washed, etc ..............

$5 50

Fuel..........

1 30

Lighting...

60

Telephone .........................

64

Water tax ........................

16

Ice....

20

Household Supplies ...............

60

Total .........................

$9 00

She says: "Nothing is more helpful to the practice of economy than a record from year to year of all expenditures. I have been a more successful housekeeper since I began keeping careful accounts. I have reduced my monthly food bill from $60 to $50 and less since I offered my cook 10 per cent on what we saved each month."