l quite a bit.

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The pennies given for charity, church collections, etc., are also
"extras."

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Returning little courtesies--very often to "his" people--such as sending
flowers, books, and occasional lunch or matinee, etc., etc., all make
quite a hole in the housekeeping money.

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The wear and tear of household utensils, linen, etc., means constant
replenishment of one thing or another. A man may realize that his buggy
or motor car has to have certain parts replaced once in a while but he
is not apt to think of the pots and pans of the household side of things
unless reminded.

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It is a good plan to keep a few simple medicines at hand in case of
sudden sickness, also a few bandages and the usual dressings required
for accidents. Does your housekeeping money make provision for this?

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Money for the education of the children is not generally included in the
housekeeping money, but when the children get old enough to want to have
their friends visit them it means little lunches, suppers,
entertainments of various kinds, all of which cuts into the housekeeping
money. As this is really the social side of their education it is only
fair that extra provision should be made for it.

Why Eat Fruit?

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It is a very good plan to find out the medicinal and curative properties
of the different fruits and to make the fruit your system requires a
part of your diet.

Apples, for instance, have an excellent effect on the health generally.
They contain a large proportion of water and a large quantity of potash
as well as of malic acid, which has valuable properties, and ether which
is beneficial to the liver. Plums, too, have certain virtues and lemons
are good for several forms of stomach trouble. As for grapes, they are
so valuable as to form a distinctive "cure" just in themselves. They
possess an enormous quantity of potash and plenty of water and they also
contain sugar and salts of tartar. That all means that grapes will do
much for the person who is tired and run down, whose nerves are weakened
and whose organs are overworked, that they will tone and regulate the
system, purify the blood and assist the different organs in performing
their functions. The presence of sugar indicates that they c