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Another drawback has been the cost. Home-banking customers pay up to $144 a year for the service, far more than the average household spends on the checks and stamps used to pay bills. But the biggest obstacle is that home computers have no way to produce hard cash, so they fail to eliminate a customer's periodic trek to the bank or automated-teller machine...
Alice concentrated on clothing, at her worst spending up to $20,000 a year on shoes and dresses. Lucy, 43, vice president of an import company, lives alone in a one-bedroom apartment in Manhattan but has enough household furnishings to equip several families. "I have three sets of dishes for twelve," she ticks off, "20 vases, tons of place mats, tablecloths and stemware, and three or four sets of pots...
...dolls' house as a gesture of gratitude and loyalty after World War I. In Queen Mary's Dolls' House (Abbeville; 191 pages; $35), Mary Stewart-Wilson opens to our view the tiniest stately home in England. The empire's finest artists, craftsmen and manufacturers contributed to the miniature royal household: Doulton sent a gilded china service for 18 (including 22 serving and covered vegetable dishes); Waygood Otis built two working elevators; and Cartier made seven clocks and two barometers. A.E. Housman, who allowed some of his poems to be copied small for the 200-book library, commented: "I selected...
Stewart's quest for perfection began early. As the second eldest of six children in a middle-class, Nutley, N.J., household -- her mother taught sixth grade and her father sold pharmaceuticals -- Martha Kostyra spent high school weekends working as a model. While a Barnard student in the early 1960s, she pulled in as much as $35,000 a year from her modeling, enough to support herself and her husband, publisher Andrew Stewart, whom she married in her sophomore year. It was his family that acquainted her with the high life. "My introduction to grownup entertaining came at a dinner party...
...MOTHER Fryal, 41, betrays the strain of trying to run a home during a year of anguish. She still oversees her large household with a firm hand, although providing the daily necessities is no longer a simple task. She has drawn up a stringent budget that allocates her husband's paycheck entirely for groceries and the children's clothes and medicine. Amid shortages and strikes, the simple act of buying food has turned into a time-consuming, frustrating chore. Meat is rarely served at her table; even chicken or frozen fish appears no more than once a week...