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Show SALABIED DAUGHTERS. Where there Is need of her work in the home, and oftea help has to be hired to take her place, the daughter should be given a regular salary, approximately the equlva'ent of what she could earn outside out-side after making allowance Tor board, room rent and the numberless privileges a girl has In her father's home. The sal' ary should be at least equal to what would have to be paid for the same work if a stranger were called In to do It, and the duties should be as distinctly defined rid as promptly and efficiently per- formed. This Is a very different thir.s from an allowance without definite duties. We know of several families where this plan has worked xucccs&fully. In one instance in-stance the daughter, while unmarried, became a capable housekeeper and man-nger, man-nger, .buying all supplies and relieving both parents of care and annoyance, for which she received a housekeeper's wages at the end of every month. Another, whose mother Is an invalid, gets a weekly week-ly envelope containing the farm: amount thnt would have been paid a nurse. Both these salaried daughters were lnippy, contented con-tented and efficient, and each had a feeling feel-ing of Independence and self-reliance nver to he attained under the "allowance" "allow-ance" system or the usual haphazard appeal ap-peal to father for money to gratify needs or whims. The Independent |