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Show !$. PARSONS TELLS COUNT OF HER NEEDS AYifc of Well-Known Attorney Says $250 a Month Is Not Enough. Two hundred and fifty dollars a month is .not sufficient to maintain Mrs. Jennie B. Parsons and her daughter and provide them with suitablo winter clothing, and it would require from $100 to $.100 a month to maintain Mrs. Parsons Par-sons in the style to which she has been accustomed. This was Mrs. Parsons 's testimony before Judge Morse of the District court Friday afternoon in the hearing hear-ing of the order directed against C. O. Parsons to show cause why he shall not pay Mrs. Parsons anil daughter $250 a month pending the final adjudication adjudi-cation of the separale. maintenance suit against him. The order was entered as requested, the first pavmcnt to be made. January In, but probably will be held in abeyance, upon agreement, until Mr. Parsons returns to the city. Mrs. Parsons, on ihe stand, reviewed her second marriage to Mr. Parsons at Denver in .1901 and their subsequent separation in 1904. At that time Mr. Parsons mentioned $300 as a proper monthly allowance for her and her daughter, she said, but has onlv given her. $250 a ihonth. This hasit been available for several months, for since June last she has had to share it equally with her dnughter. The allowance al-lowance never was paid until the end of the month, and consequently was thirty days in arrears, Mrs. Parsons tcstilied. Mr. Parsons, as legal adviser to the Newhouse and Boston Consolidated Miuinf company interests, is in receipt; of anywhere from $2000 to $3000 a month, Mrs. Parsons declared, while she and her daughter must' get along on $250 a month, and arc still indebted lo Walker Bros, for summer clothing for 100S. Payments of $25 a month have been applied upon this debt regularly, but there is still $40 owing. Mrs. Parsons Par-sons said. An allowance of $250 a month is barely sufficient for the nctual living expanses of herself and daughter, she declared, and has not snfliced to secure clothing for the winter for thenu. Mrs. Parsons was accompanied by her1 daughter, but Miss Parsons was not required re-quired to go on the stand. |