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Show iTHE GIRL AND HER SPENDING MONEY; : money must be paid, then a larger I amount paid each month, from which mu6t come all the little details of dress j gloves, belts, veils, ribbons, &c, ns well i as what amusements she cares for, and then during her hist year in school the allowance was large enouirh to cover all' dressmaking lulls nnd nil the smaller expenses ex-penses of daily living. There will not be hulf the danger of extravagance ex-travagance and useless spending nf money if a girl knows that it is she alone who 'is to bear the consequences nud can not have the vcTy satisfactory feeling that, "after all. it docsu't matter, father always pays." And then there are tho srirls who often go without some very trivial but im i : . their miuds wholly desirable thing for fear that they would be thought foolish in asking for it. On their own allowance it would spread out in some way and no ono be the wiser. The giving of a defiuito allowance to each child is well worth the effort it may cause the head of a household house-hold striving to manage hi the best way( on a small income. In the end no more will Ik? spent, but it will certainly bej sent to best advantage, for the child will, derive through it not only those things which 8he needs and will have to be given anyway, but, with i good training in the use and abuse of spen. ling money, aj knowledge which is every bit ns important impor-tant for the laborer's child as for the daughter of a millionuaire. k ,0 matter how small her allowance; j l may be, every girl who has her nrn spending money to eke out ns best' she may for car fare, little dress ncceso-j ries nnd an occasional box of enndy or soda will be far more content thnu if sh is forced to ask her parents for every ten cent piece or quarter that shj may! require In the course of the day. Many really generous fathers do not ! realize the importance of thr-ir dnugbtcr's feeling a certain freedom and independence indepen-dence where their spending money is cou-1 cenied. while many girls do not realize themselves how infinitely more satlsfac-. satlsfac-. tory it would be to have their own money, be it only 2.1 or 50 cents a week, to pbn out themselves and not have to ask for rreh separate small desire. Until a girl has her own little pittance she can never hope (o learn either economy or generosity. When she is given the1 i money for each pair of gloves or hnir i lb-ibon lb-ibon which she wants thero is no opportunity opportu-nity of trying just how far n dollar or a five dollar bill can be made to go. If the allowance is very small, then ; weekly payments are necessary, but ns it becomes larger nnd more must be bought jfrom it hats, perhaps, or even all the gwns then a girl will learn more from less frequent payments. Naturally everything every-thing must depeud upon the income of the .family, but every girl should, when asking ,thnt a regular pllownnce be given her, 'make it understood thnt sho will spend i bo more than Is now allotted for her (clothes and everyday expenses. With care a girl can often make the same amount of (money go much further when she plans each expenditure nnd economizes some-jwhat some-jwhat in the trimming of her gown that a bintirt but may be bought, j Apart from the independence and the fact that she hen-elf will ft.L.j the consequences conse-quences of every extravagance, it is really a good thing for a girl to bo accustomed to the use of a check and the handling of what money is required for her own personal per-sonal needs. The trainiut; will help her in after life, whether she marries n rich man and has tho responsibility jof large means, or becomes tho helpmeet of some man with whom the expenditure iof every dollar must bo given thought. Kven if she is to become a professional I woman or "bachelor girl" she can 6carce-jly 6carce-jly commence loo young in life to understand under-stand the value of money how much it ,'can do for others and how much pleasure lit can bring to the owner if rightly and carefully spent. Thu girl who is nat-urally nat-urally reckless will soon loarn economy if her parents aro sufficiently firm and never make up au allowance, all of which has been spent in half its appointed time. What pleasure and what excellent Irnin-ing, Irnin-ing, on the other band, will a fixd tillow- ance given to the uaturully geavroua girl. If possible an allowance should be' worked out in various stages. The little' , girl rccehes her penny o week for cuudy jjust us regularly as tho grown up sister j find her monthly or quarterly check (from which must conic every living ex-pense ex-pense except her actual bed and board her gowns, her theatre tickets, her truv- ctling expenses. Cut in order to bare nt-jtaioed nt-jtaioed to this hist stage lnforc hu nian-! nian-! leges tho bills of tho household the girl has first lo spend years on weekly U-J lluwaui'c. Uoui which caiUvc and vhjieh' |
