A new system of practical domestic economy.

Date:
1828
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    OBSERVATIONS. After the rate of this Estimate the expense of each child will be 3s. per week. Hence it will be seen that if the number of children in a family be more or less than three, the mode of living may be governed by the Esti- mates preceding or following, in an inverse ratio. Thus, with this Income, if there be only two children, instead of three, the Family may live after the rate of the seventh Estimate;—if there be only one child, instead of the three, they may live after the rate of the eighth Estimate; —and if there be only the man and his wife, they may live by the mode prescribed in the ninth Estimate : Or, if they please, they may live by this Estimate and safe an additional 3s. per week for each child less than the three. On the contrary, if there be four children, instead of three, they will require 3s. per week more for their sup- port, or they must live after the rate of the fifth Estimate ; if they have five children, then the fourth Estimate must be their guide ; if they have six children, they must live according to the third Estimate; and so on. Thus, without material error, this, arid all the other Estimates, may be adapted to many different modes of living, such as the varying circumstances may warrant, and according as the number of children may be more or less than the number given. This arrangement, together with the modes of variation given at the foot of each Estimate will atford an almost incalculable number of cases of Income and ways of living, to which our System may, with great facility, be practically applied. The prudent manager of a family will readily conceive, that with small means, recourse must be had to plain and nourishing articles of food, instead of the more rich and expensive ones, and the great object is, to select the most efficacious and proper of those that are within reach. We have already found occasion to remark, that the Practical Economist will readily devise cheap and nutritive substi- utes for articles of greater cost, and thereby evince a re- gard for the health as well as the comfort of the family. u