TWOPENCE A DAY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15349, 9 July 1913, Page 12

TWOPENCE A DAY.

HOUSEKEEPING PROBLEMS

| The world is still waiting for a modern ; Mrs. Beeton, who will write a practical ! book showing how to feed six or eight i mouths on £1 a week. Meantime, there ; are hundreds of women who, with no ! capacity' for expressing themselves on ! paper, are engaged daily in a practical | solution of the problem, and-at the In- | ternational Franchise Club recently Mrs. ! Pember Reeves gave some explanation of I the process. ; No dweller in a West End square could ! be more jealous of his independence and j respectability than thousands of families I whose incomes vary from 18s to 25s a ; week, who live in the upper or lower half of small houses, which extend for mile after mile along monotonous streets. A 21s a week budget revealed the fact that rent, clothing, gas, and other necessary items accounted for 12s lid, 8s Id being left for the food for five persons, which works out at less than 3d per day. Allowing 6d a day for the husband, who is awav at work, the average is, reduced to less "than 2d a day for the mother and children. Only the initiated can understand the budgets presented by these housekeepers: Sewuitt, lid," " Coul, thruppons" — means in Lambeth, "cowheel, 3d,"—and "earrins, two d." which when rightly understood resolves itself into " herrings, 2d."