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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1920-03-04, Page 3rj AAE`YGU KEEPING ACCOUNTS? 1 "Take care of costs and profits wi 1 take care of themselves," has long been an axiom with business men. It has only lately been applied by pro= gressive farmers to figuring out whether agriculture is paying them. Even now fame woman can not be :;lid to he vary eaiineetly engaged in fines:n,g out whether the honsekeep- in;': ex.esnsee are over large, but here and thele ps.ogre sive farin women have begun to study tett just what the table costs incl what the general run- ninc expenses are, with a view to stopping leaks and cutting out un- necessary charges. In these days of inflated prices for everything we buy n i eveman can afford to neglect any chance to reduce living exnenses to the lowest figure possible with good health and good lining. It is not at ail desirable that we be niggardly, bet many of us could live in better health with less honey than we are now spending, if we would make a study lxf balanced diet and along with It keen account of expenditures. Seine interesting findings have been made by a few worsen who have tried the experiment. One woman found that for her family of three a month's meals cost $31,77, er eleven and one- third cents s per meal. Another found It cOCt $2.47 per defy to feed four per- ene, two women and two active young men. Of this surn $1.61 was !for food and the other eighty-six cents for labor and fuel- Another found that three adults, all (loin: 'lard wok, coat her severs een rent a meal tech, er fifty cents per person i:e: dal. ' Perhaps one of the most pertinent discs: cries was made by ones investi- gator in the matter of breakfast foods, Just how much we pay for the cereal when we buy a package, and 'how much of our purchase price is ap- rlied to manufacture, wrappings, ad- vertising and profits is shown in her breakfast which had home -cracked wheat as its cereal. The home-made product cost her at the rate oft$2.30 a bushel. Shredded ens Jieat, according to her figures, costs at the rate of 812 a bushel. wheat flakes, $18 a bu- shel, and puffed wheat $36 per bu- bol. The entire breakfast consisted of home -cracked wheat, corn, muffins, peanut butter, a quart of milk, and nears and cost fifty-three cents. A dinner of Irish stew --containing po- tatoes, onions,. carrots and tomatoes, —eabbage and celery salad, whole wheat brand, and butter, and . ehoco- late custard and cream, cost sixty and three-fourths cents. Supper of creamed salsify, baked' potatoes, bread and butter, oatmeal cookies, boiled sweet apples with sugar, and tasted peanuts, cost forty-seven and a half cents. These figures apply solely to the cost of the food, and lake no account of labor and fuel. In' deciding how much your food costs the question at once arises, shall you charge it up to what the food costs you to raise on your farm or vs'hat you would get for it if you sold it. Of course, if you eat your cake you can't sell it, so you are out of pocket S -,-hat you night have if the food con- sumed were taken to market. On the ether hand, it really only cost in ne- tual dollars and cents the labor of produeing and cost of seed. Decide before you start your account book which way you will charge. Of course, if you are to keep ac- counts you must have an account jiook. Buy a blank book and make your own account book. A plain writ ting tablet, ruled, will do if it is Nide enough. The best account book tabulates the various items under the general headings, food, shelter, clothing, oper- ating expenses and advancement. These go on one line across the top • of the page. These various headings are subdivided as follows: food, groc- eries, meat.. 'Shelter, rent, or if you own your, home, taxes) payments, in- suranee, repairs, improvements, in- terest, etc. Operating expenses in- clude heat, light, telephone, house- hold supplies and furniture, hell and laundry and health, which would. in- clude doctors and medicines. Ad- vancement takes in education, periodi- cals, books, etc,, social service and church, recreation and savings. A fined crirnin is reserved for unclassie f'e' expenditures. The fn5aily calendar card for keep- ing track of family living from the farm provides a record for ' butter, cream, milk, eggs, meats, vegetables, fruits flour, wood and miscellaneous its rye 'With the cards and the book 1$, 1,s1.: of keenieg accounts becomes lc !cin-arkse. The day has gone by wleel we con. discuss the matter of. it ce t Frith a shzeT and the re- m k that z a''ve got to eat, Cheap end elentirell reed is in the past, We must figure closely if ns b'a,ik even, t�) llotlr n _A about St getting 'i1.ead, tier waylie help t'e1•j' 111 !leen iO keel) ...:' 11 e1i-? n i;:rc 1f c+,. ;.C. "SYRUP OF FIGS",: CHILD'S LAXATIVE Look of tongue! Remove phi» sons from little stomach, liver and bowels ISKIRTS FOR E SPRING WARDROBE E FIAL I .It you know the nerve - taming ing aggo�nies of Neural-' va you will bless the day, ita m pi ar wl's Rheumatic Capsules +iwore discovered: This am.ons remedy le abso- lutely guaranteed t0 give relief to sufferers Brom, 1`I'r uralgia. Pend for free sample to Templetons, 142 Zing St. W., Toronto. Accept. '`Calitornia" Syrup or Figs only—look for the naive California on the package, then you are sure your child is having the best e.and most harmless laxative or physic for thee little stomach, liver and bowels. Children love its delicious fruity taste. Full directions for child's close on each bottle. Give It without fear.. Mother! You must say "California." Yes, Cold An Gone—Not A, Bit of Cough Left Feel great this morning. As soon as I felt it corning on yesterday I used Gray's Syrup and nipped it in the bud. Just couldn't miss an hour at the office, we are so busy and short-handed. Gray's Syrup is a habit in our family, the folits have used it for sixty years. e Alw-ays buy the largo Slxo• 08 SINCE 0 1870 b .0 9285, 9295 9281 No. 9285—Ladies' Two -Piece Skirt Price, 20 cents. Two styles of pocket; high waistline; 38 or 36 -inch length. Cut in 7 sizes, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32, 34 and 36 inches waist measure. Size 26 re- quires, either style pocket, 23/x, yards 36 inches wide or 2% yards 50 inches wide. Width around bottom, 2 yards. No. 9275—Ladies' Two-Piec't Skirt. Price, 25 cents. With or without two- piece circular tunic; 38 or 36 -inch length. Cut in 6 sizes, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32 and 34 inches waist measure. Size 26, with tunic, 38 -inch length, 5% yards 30 inches wide or 33/9 yards 45 inches wide; without tunic, 2% yards 30 or 45 inches wide. Width around bottom, 1% yards. .No. 9281—Ladies' Two -Piece Skirt. Price, 20 cents. Simulated panel front; high waistline; 38 or 36 -inch length. Cut in 8 sizes, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36 and 38 inches waist meas ure. Size 26 requires, 38 -inch length, 2% yards 36 inches wide or 1% yards 54 inches wide; 36 -inch length, 214 yards 36 inches wide or 1% yards 54 inches wide. Width around bottom, 11/z yards. - Thee ,patterns may be obtained olxQs from your local McCall dealer, or gTiil'S OU G S from the McCall Co., 70 Bond St., To- eonto, Dept. W. 8sk for =nerd's an4 bake no other. A Steeplejack in War Time.; A steeplejack's life even in time of Its charm will those you meet beguile, peace is liable to be unpleasantly All gloom and darkness scorning. thrilling now and then, but when a For a happy senile on the face at man follows such a vocation amid fly - " That Cheery Morning Smile. Greet each new day with a happy smile As you wish the world "Good morn- ing." horn Will make the day feel cheery, And the hours will fly as you truly r try To make this world less dreary, w ing shells the thrills are liable to be continuous. As I was a steeplejack, says an English writer, I was select- ed for observation work on a lofty chimney in the Ypres area. I had seated myself on a board that I had Awake from sleep with a thankful rigged near the top of the chimney heart when, to my dismay, a German shell That a new day is your guerdon; Go forth to labor and do your part To lighten someone's burden, To wear a smile on your morning face Will make the clay seem brighter, As forth you fare to perform your share To make some trouble lighter. So face each day with a sultuy smile, The day new-born to greet you, And scatter sunshine all the while On all who chance to meet you. Go forth from home with a purpose high Soine wee to be beguiling, And those who sigh will some good Because you go forth smiling. Under the sheds on many farms may be found the running gears of one-horse lumber wagons. For a few dollars these wagons may be rigged up; repainted, and made to serve a fine purpose once more. There is no more handy wagon on the farm than a good one-horse Iumber wagon. tore a hole through the brickwork about six feet below me and made the whole chimney sway" The ladder by which r was to des- cend was smashed by the shell, but I had a ope with me, luckily, and, fixing one end of it to the chimney top, I quickly let "myself down to the undamaged part of the ladder, Hardly had I done so when another shell car- ried away the upper part of the chim- ney altogether, Europe's poultry population in the duration of the war, was reduced by 180,000,000 birds. The loss was heav- iest in Belgium, where the total stock is now only twenty per cent of its pre-war size. Holland lost sev- enty-five per cent of its poling, France fifty per cent., and Denma fifty per cent. Is it any wonder that the poultrymen of these countries are interested in holding a poultry confer- ence at The Hague with a view to eonsid'ering ways and means of in- creasing production? TheTheSweet:421.0,a F} ' r o e iso', pro'lt, su .°' Thi ; :Nen& 41436,Qa and inked le The 5gWs4pt81ie9S IS.tze fe dm tual 421:ein. stn , selt,,d -"">. el4 opedy therocessing and lo,lori6 lballtii . o Alia 1<earcood.: 1 eves d ens Doctors recomxnenck them, and reliable drug- gists everywhere sell them for 51,05 a box. ERININIAMOMMISSMIAZIMCO AST HMill Templeton's RAZ -MAH Cap- sules are guaranteed to relieve AS T E M A. Don't suffer an- other daY. ' l 4' JriteTempletons, 142 King St. W., Toronto, for freesample. Er enable druggists sell them at 01.04 a box. The Years. When was young and twenty, I'id sun a many mile, And when I came to thirty I'd:•sit and rest awhile. that ,t a,u LAW. ,, I am the sleepiest luau alive. But maybe when I'm forty I'll shake my legs again, And walk from then till fifty With young and striding risen, And hillward go in sixty's wear To see how yet the counties fare, When I am old abed eighty All treasons will be done Of love and silly bitterness, And I shall watch the sun Go out, and little heed the fear That smote upon lay middle year. MONEY ORDERS. Send a Dominion Express Money Order. Five Dollars costs three cents, The -Costly Garter. '"Lord Londonderry, being one of the most wealthy member's of the peer- age, will be under no necessity of re- fusing the Order of the Garter, which the Kiug has bestowed upon him, through inability to pay the fees en- tailed. Others have been less fortunate, and Lord Melbourne had more than MeV° -t° refuse it from Queen Victoria, writing at last, in 1847, that he did so because he knew the expense involved by its acceptance would be about £1,000, and that he had never had that sum conveniently available. Mansonviile, June 27, '13. Minard's Liniment Co., Limited, Yarmouth, N.S. Gentlemen,—It affords me great pleasure and must be gratifying to you to know that after using 36 bot- tles of your Liniment on a case of paralysis which my father was af- flicted with, I was able to restore him to normal condition. Hoping other sufferers niay be benefitted by the use of your Liniment, I am, Sincerely yours, GEO. H. HOLhIES. Murdered Classics. Time deals hardly withthe wisdom of classical authors. Modern versions are invariably in- correct. "When Greek meets Greek, then comes a tug of war," is wrong. The original line written by Nathaniel Lee, one of the old-time dramatists, occurs in his play, long since forgot- ten, "The Rival Queens, or Alexander the Great." It reads; "When Greeks joined Greeks, then was the tug of war." Similarly Milton's "fresh woods and pastures new" is invariably rendered "fresh fields and pastures new;" while another pitfall for the unwary is to be found .tin the well-known lines of Kingsley, beginning "Be good, sweet maid" Nine people out of tett, if challenged with them, would repeat:— Ile good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; Do noble deeds, not dream them all day long. 'Whereas what the poet actually did write was:-- Be good, sweet maid, and „let who can be clever; Do lovely things, not dream them, all day long. .-Tennyson5iras perhaps suffered less from iniseuoters than host' poets, but ilia "streataing London's central roar," vnbidh occurs in the "Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington," is generally converted into "busy Lon.on's central roar," "The noiseless tenor of their way," trona Gray's '4E/logy," is more familiar to many as the "even tenor at their way," Ithe mutation: of ituesta is estina . ated to have decreased by 85,000,000 ghee 1914, owing to the ew war, fa vine a and (Maeaso. ltititta PIP. ilk BITS OP HUM It FROM NRE &THEI E Ail He Knew About Pianos. Mr. Newritch — "I waurtia buy a planer for my darter," Piano Salesman. —"Certainly, sir. Here are' some beautiful instru- ments—„ Mr, Newritch (After several min- utes' counting)—"Guess I'll take this here one—it has the most keys on it." A Modern Version. A little girl in Sunday school was telling the story of the creation. "And so," she said, "Eve was made out of Adam's rib, and —" "My ma says, put in. Peter Harris, who was tile son of the laziest man in town, "that she wouldn't so much mind being a man's rib. It's being a man's backbone that makes her mad." Beep Mh ard's S,iniment in the 1ourea. Classified Advertiser-, Es :GZtasTs W4N5Ma. 'PORTRAIT AGENTS WANT IN J good prints and t3nishes-•••lowest prices on frames—ask for catalogue.united Art Co,. 4 Brunswick Ave.. To- ronto. A. GENTS WANTED. $Go to 51n ' .1. week easily made selling Auto Specialties. Write for infermcxion, R.othwell's Auto Speofa)tie,., 331,, Rich- mond Street, Toronto, Ont. NVa1r ANTED — 13i'i 111.1 J t.i,l.:1i- r I getic rmen. Saris is eerie. farm- ers or others who call dei tt sonic of their spare time to rupre.,c*ni, us a.- Salesmen for Nursery Stock, We sup. ply up-to-date canvassing outfits free, of Charge and offer liberal tel nue st;.>n. Apply immediately to Maple, cxrvve Nurseries, SVinona, Ont, MART, ENE1tc1•:Tl'' 1'()IT .r 11.N I- wanted to solidi(' inir,r.t., bonds and debentures, tc• repre.: ; ;, To- ronto 1100se. Liberal er•i:rnis+sir,n. ply Box 0, Wilson I'ublielting {:n., To- ronto. ',Arm smnr,mts. WRITE 1r on INFORM.1'11CN TW about the new, modern wa:r- of selling real estate. Sell your property yourself with our help, Our method only costs you $12 00, '1'Vhy pay to large commission' :v:'ite fcr full par- ticulars, Real Estate iluyers Monthly, 78?i Dundass St., London, Ont.. son Is &x, a _ __ ffii$CELZa�1QIlobR18 _ "IVEWS1'APE.R, WEEKLY. IN BRUCE C�gJJOFF11i7' STOCK WANTED. IF YOU 1'1 County. Splendid opportunity. Write Box T. Wilson Publishing Co,. Limited, are able to supply, advise us, as we 73 Adelaide St. W, Tc: onto. will pay the highest prices; dry or green from the saw. Keenan Eros., Limited. Owen Sound. Ont. ELLnd lEQUIPPEgD NEWSPAPER aob printinplant fn Eastern rt`{ Internet .S. LUMPS, ETC„ Ontario, Ineuranatc carried $1,500, Vti111 9J internal and external, cured without ck sale. Box,, 02. r fp by oil: j,om® treAtmen?, wrfty us Eoi for xl,?a:U all ,1da before tan 1ait✓3 Dr. Rehman afedtcal :.tson Publishing Co., Litt„ •Toron. Co., Limited. Collingwood, Ont. COAX 'E Stop Whipping 'Bowels into Activity, but take "Cascarets" s Put aside the Salts, Pills, Castor Oil, or Purgative Waters that irritate and lash the bowels into action but which do not thoroughly elapse, freshen and purify these drainage or- gans, and have no effect whatever up- on the liver and stomach. Keep your "insides" pure and fresh with Cascarets, which thoroughly cleanse the stomach, remove the un- digested, sour food and foul gases, take the e-xeess bile from the liver and carry out of the system all the con- stipated waste matter and poisons in the bowels which are keeping you half sick, headachy, and miserable. Cascarets to -night will make you feel great by morning. They work while you sleep—never gripe, sicken or cause inconvenience. Cascarets cost so little too. DON'T NEGLECT A RHEUMATIC IN Go after it with Sloan's Liniment before it gets dangerous Apply a little, don't ritb, let it pene- trate, and—good-by twinge! Same for external aches, pains, strains, stiffness of joints or muscles, lameness, bruises. Instant relief without mussiness or soiled clothing. Reliable—the biggest selling liniment year after year. Eco- nomical by reason of enormous sales Keep a big bottle ready at all times. 14fade in Canada, Ask your druggist for Sloan's Liniment, 36c., 70c., $1.10, 0 It Works! Try It b Tells stew to loosen a sore, 1 tender corn so it tiffs out without pain. 0 ®- e --a- o --a- o— o Good news spreads rapidly anti drug. gists here are kept busy dispensing ireezone, the ether discovery of a Cin• cinnati man, which is said to loosen any corn so it lifts out with the lingers. Ask at any pharmacy for a quarter ounce of freezone, which will cost very little. but is said to be sufficient to rid one's feet of every hard or soft corn er callus. You apply Just a few drops on the tender, aching corn and instantly the soreness is relieved, and soon the corn is so shriveled that it lifts out with. out pain. It is a sticky substance • which dries when applied and never inflames or even irritates the adjoin- ing tissue. This discovery will prevent thou- sands of deaths annually from lock. jaw and infection heretofore resulting from the suicidal habit of cutting COMB. FACE AS FULL F PIMPLES For Three Fears. Hard and Awfuily Soret Disfigured. 'Cuticura Heals. "E had been suffering %Arith a pinna ply face for three years. My face was full of pimples and they were hard and awfully sora. They fes- tered and dried up, and were scaly, and disfigured my face. They caused me to lose a lot of sleep, and were awfully itchy, makinghne scratch and irritate my face. "I started to use Cuticura Soap and Ointment and 1 used two cakes of Cuticura Soap and two boxes of Cuticura Ointment when I was healed." (Signed) Clifford Yeomans, East Chezzelcook, N. S. Use Cuticura for every -day toilet purposes. Bathe ;vith Soap, soothe with Ointment, dust with Talcum. Seep 25c, Ointment 25 and Sec. Sold throughouttheDominion, CanadianDepot: L mane, Limited, St. Petal St., Montreel. -Cuticura Soap shaved without mug. ONLY TABLETS MARKED "BAYER" ARE ASPIRIN Not Aspirin at All without the "Bayer Cross" Per Cold%, Pain, i`Tetira 'a, Thoth- sick e which contains cosi cite di. Oho, headache, Earaches, and for action , Then you are getting real Rheumatism, Lumbago, Sciatica, Neu- As erne--tIie genuine Aspirin lire - antis, take Aspirin narked with the scribed by physicians for over nine- ktame "Traver" or you ate not taking teen years. Now made in Canada. Aspirin ai all. Handy tin boxes containing _2 tale Accept only `Saver Tablets of lets cost but a few cents, Druggists Aspirin in an unbroken "Byer" also sell larger 'Bayer" Pasha There is only one Astrisf u -.."F Rno-ytss' ..-'l 'on must say "pare r i i e Aspirin it tho trade merit r e p r x C ado of Barer � 4 ( � ) a n.a a rA pp rr I tan r Ii7a et.n• of ti Ncetloaoldeeter of Salloytleaold, (reap/tercel it a well 'known that ,Asplrtn tnettlrs 7.�asym�. ,anutaoture, tQ oldet the pubilo t tmitotioqrs, t a Tablets of bsycr C'sm'j$e f 1n ill le atempag with ;li+ts 3eners`I ta{,do cern, 1110 'payer crops.'