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Show Ideas of Living Expenses Seem to Vary Widely AUTHORITIES of the United States government have decided that a young woman, to live respectably in the District of Columbia, must have $15 a week. Different states, establishing a minimum wage, have decided as a rule Ca) YOUR HOhOh (i2f23LJ, POSSIBLY that $15 a week is about enough to keep an American girl sufficiently well fed, dressed and housed. Yet in New York Miss Lorena Carroll, nineteen, has petitioned the surrogate's court to increase her annual an-nual allowance from $15,000 to $20,000. She says the increased cost of living makes it impossible for her to keep up her social position on the $15,000 Miss Carroll is the only daughter of Joseph D. Carroll, millionaire horseman. horse-man. Her father willed her the in- come from $150,000 until she is twenty-one and then the residue of his estate, amounting to $1,250,000. Miss Carroll lives with her mother and attends the Ogontz school of Philadelphia. In June, 1910, Surrogate Fowler permitted her mother to spend $12,500 a year on the daughter, instead of $7,500. Since that time her allowance has been increased to $15,000. A schedule of Miss Carroll's expenses shows: Kent, $2,000; clothing, Including sport coats, evening dresses, auto coats, jewelry, furs, toilet articles, manicuring, shampooing, $3,000; household expenses, ex-penses, $4,000; insurance, $S50 ; automobile operation, $5,000; education and church, $2,000; summer cottage, railroad fares, hotel bills, dances and amusement amuse-ment parties. $3,000; physicians, opticians, dentists, drugs and medicines, $1,000. Total. $20,850. Dr. Royal Meeker, commissioner of labor statistics, investigated 348 families in Chicago in the vinter of 1918-19. Their incomes ranged from under $900 a year to more than $2,500 a year. Sixty-four per cent of these families save something; 28.2 per cent showed a deficit, and 0.9 per cent broke even. |
