THEIR HOUSEHOLD BILLS.
The,: German Imperial 'Statistical Office year ago caused 800 families in different part of .the empire to begin keeping a systemati ivory family, tho "Mail" says,, received -a] account book, m which it was requested t keep- an-itemised record of money^ spent 01 foci •clothing, fuel, medical attention, pr SDntSi ..education,' amusements, etc. A teacho and; Uis wife,; without children, whose incom contrived to save jE6. Anothe er snd5 nd ' hl i't ie /• chUdless, earne and •. spent Mil:, A cabineSer: an! nis Infe,-with one: child nine years of aee earned. and lived oh A painte? apprenface and his wife, also with a child o nine, earnedLX76,{and spent £S9. A marriw policeman, wrth two children of ten and six teen, had an inebme of .£118,.' and saved jeis while,a,'married clerk with two children, tea Eour and uvo, earned XBG, and ended the yea <"tta deucit of >eil 10s. A widower with tw( children and one :soi-vant girl earned JiieO »iid spent iE62 more than his income. Thi family (spent -over .630 on'. sports, amusements sad' entertainment. couplo wit] fchreo children, tho father being a brewer workman, , earned and saved 10s Thl family spent, only .633 10s. on food. l '• : One.-.wonld. very much like to ■ know wha ;ho .German Imperial Statistical Office did witl .he families who sent'in these reports. Wen * e ,P™, de »' rewarded according to their merits' md did the tinftlcss suffer according to thoii loserts? / That entertaining. widower, , 'for in itance.Vdoes ho still entertain, or does thi Jtate. itself entertain him ?..' ■-. '
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 615, 18 September 1909, Page 11
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255THEIR HOUSEHOLD BILLS. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 615, 18 September 1909, Page 11
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