Show A CONTRAST recently we noticed ani an item tern concerning a school girl of berkley california which states that the young lady manages to exist on 15 16 cents per day and is healthy and contented the girl is 18 years old and a student of the university of california she spends 11 cents per week for potatoes and 15 cents for eggs stale bread chocolate salad oil vegetable spaghetti and meat makeup make up the remainder of her bill of fare she supports herself by doing clerical work in her spare time at which she makes per month far different are the expenses each week of many a young girl attending the universities and colleges of this state but few f them impend less than per week and many of them more than that turio amount and outside of the money spent for food alone there are always a lotof lot of the young ladies spend money for fruits confections confect ions nuts etc the cost of which will wid reach to as large a sum each week as they pay for food which means that at least per week it is spent where not more than t should be spent of course we do not expect rii 01 ask that our utah girls live on a little money as the california girl eirl 1 doing but we should cert certainly tinly liet to see them live just a trifle mor economically than they are doing at least a goodly number of them we know of several parents wh are sacrificing much in order that thai their girls eirls may attend college an and d are slaving their lives away with the belief bellef that their daughters art arc getting a good education at as assmair amai i a cost as is possible they are unable to be on the ground to see just what there children are doing and must take the word of the young people at all times it if it were at all possible for the parents to be in the city C ty where their daughters arv arr attending school they would readily see that money could be bya by a judicious spending of it for necessities and the elim eliminating oi 01 luxuries which any girl is better without but not being able to lu bd beai it the same city as the school parents must of a necessity take the report of expenses as are sent in by their children and be content there is one way however hoever that the parents can arrive at a fair understanding der standing of the extravagance of their children and that is to get the people with whom they are living to tomake to make weekly or mont monthly y re report ort of the way the students con conduct act themselves the places they the y visit the shows they go to the com company P any they ey keep the hours they study and the hours spent in pleasure if this could be done the parents could draw conclusions and arrive at 4 conservative estimate of just what their children are doing and spending every parent who has a child away at school from this locality should demand from that child a report of the actual expenditure of money necessary week by week and every item purchased or entertainment or dance attended should ie be itemized I 1 |