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Show embarrassment, often inducing borrowing from and cringing to' girls who are willing to spend their allowances on friends. In many schools the allowance is limited, a girl being allowed to spend only a stated sum each week. Much depends upon the school. If a girl attends a school near a large city and the rule is to take the pupils in to concerts, the theater and to lectures tho allowance allow-ance must necessarily be larger than at country schools. What every girl realizes and what most parents fail to understand under-stand is that there are numbers of demands that it embarrasses a girl not to be able to meet. An allowance should be given regularly and the sum fixed absolutely. ab-solutely. , Thi3 teaches habits of economy. It is much better to let your sons and daughters control their money, however small tho amounts, than to encourage them to run up bills or spend freely with a confidence that they can get what they want from home. A GIRL'S ALLOWANCE. Just now, when many girls are entering on their boarding school or college courses, the question of an allowance is apt to be a ruling one in the minds of her parents and in that of the young lady herself. If it is too large it will possibly give her spendthrift habits and make her the prey of undesirable and sponging school-mates. school-mates. If. on the other hand, the allowajir.e ig too small it causes |