Where credit accounts are carried it would be necessary to have a column for 

 credit expenses as well as cash and this might be subdivided to show the different persons 

 for whom a credit account was carried. 



Cash Expenses 



Date 



Jan. 



Items 



Meat 



Sugar 



Potatoes 



Leg of Lamb. 



Paid Butcher 



" Grocer. 



Rec. 



Exp. 



Bal. 



Credit Expenses 



Grocer 



Dr. Cr 



$2.00 



$0.50 

 1.50 



Butcher 



Dr. Cr. 



$2.4C 



$1.15! 



1.25 



Applying a system such as this to one's household expenditure places the running 

 of the home on a business basis and only by recognizing it as a business and treating it 

 as such can the best results be secured. The method outlined is by no means the only 

 one that may be employed, but it is simple and effective and if put into practice by 

 every woman at the head of a home and a similar system for personal accounts taught 

 by her to the boys and girls of her family the effect on the well-being and prosperity of 

 our country would be inestimable. 



PATRIOTIC PURCHASING 



"New occasions teach new duties." 



You can help win the War! Keep your money circulating in Canada by buying 

 Canadian Products — products of Canadian farms, orchards and factories. 



Your money is needed at home, where it will continue to work for you. 

 dollar sent out of the country unnecessarily is a dollar lost. 



Every 



If Canada cannot supply your needs, give your preference to the products of the 

 Empire — Great Britain and Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, 

 Ceylon, British West Indies. There are few, if any, essential articles that are not or 

 cannot be produced within the Empire. Buy them in preference to goods from any 

 other country. Keep your money within the Empire. 



Next to the countries of the British Empire, give your preference to goods that come 

 from the countries of the allied nations — France, Russia, Italy, Japan. Make the 

 dollars fight for us. 



This is not a matter of spite; it is a matter of war finance. 



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