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Show A Working: Girl's Allowance. It is wrong, for a working girl's parents par-ents to take all her earnings every week as it is customary to do, the parents par-ents buying the girl's clothing for her. It would be much better for the girl and for her parents themselves, iif they only knew it if she were allowed to keep so nyich of her snlary every week for clothesit need not be more than the parents would spend for her and let her buy her own clothing herself. Tha girl knows how hard her money is to earn, and, her spending it is a profitable profit-able experience. Of course, at first she will make injudicious) purchases buy the wrong sort of things and pay too much for them in the eyes of her experienced ex-perienced mother but if the mother will quietly point'out to the girl how ohe could have done better with her money it will be found that eventually the girl will not only be economical as good a business woman as her motner, nut much more so, she having been allowed an earlier beginning. Another great mistake that poor people peo-ple as a rule make is that because the girls of the family are workers in shops and) the like they are excused from all home duties and; domestic responsibilities. responsibili-ties. Mothers whose daughters are employed during thegay should manage man-age it so that the daughters assisit in the purchasing of household needs. food, additional furniture and the like for in this way they get to know the market value of things which they will j probably be called upon some day to I purchase for their own homes. Hetty j Green in Woman's Home Companion. |