1852 Report of Farmers' Institutes 



items needed to be purchased when going to market can be \vrit- 

 ten, and either torn oif or copied when ready to go to the store. 

 An inventory of the different honsehokl goods will prove helpful 

 in times of fire. This inventory will also be helpful in times of 

 settling the estate. 



Tenth: "Keep accounts of money received and expended." In 

 these davs when so much is said about the cost of living, the 

 systematic housewife is able to tell just how much she has received 

 and where she has spent it. She has learned the value of buying 

 in large quanties and so manages her purchases that several 

 large bills do not come in at the same time. She knows just how 

 much it is ffoing to cost her to run her house and she so manages 

 that she is al)le to put away a little money each month. System 

 in the use of money has taught the thoughtful housewife how to 

 select meats, dry goods and furniture for their real value for 

 both beauty and utility purposes. She never buys a thing just 

 because it is cheap unless she has some immediate need for it. 

 She has also learned to avoid the fads and fashions of the da;^. 

 The bargain counter has no attraction for her. She has learned 

 that manv times this counter is onlv the clearing house for the 

 merchants out of date or shop-worn goods. 



Children: Children in the home afford a splendid opportunity 

 for developing system. They can be so trained that they will 

 help w'ith the various duties in and out of doors. Through a wise 

 division of work the mother trains her children to be careful,, 

 thoughtful, helpful, earnest men and women, and their part in 

 the business of home-making makes them valuable citizens. 



In working out a system for the home, time must be planned 

 for rest. The railroads demonstrate this fact. When asked if 

 the big locomotive that starts with the Empire State express 

 train at Buft'alo took the train to Xew York, the response was, 

 " To get the greatest amount of work out of this iron horse we 

 must let it rest, so another takes the train at Syracuse and another 

 at Albany." If it is necessary for the locomotive to rest, it is 

 vastly more important that the human body, one of the most intri- 

 cate pieces of machinery yet known, should have rest. The house- 

 wife owes it to herself and to her family to so prepare herself for 

 life's duties by using all the means suggested and as many more as 

 she can ol)tain, that she may be better able to cope with the duties 

 of the home. 



