Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1889-03-30
PARENTAL PlN-MONEY.
How the Daughters Of New YORK MILLION
aires Dispose Of Their Allowances.

How the Daughters Of New YORK. Million-
aires Dispose of Their Allowances.
II have only an allowance OF $40 a
week for pocket money!" said the
Of daughter millionaire in confiden-
tial moment the other day. Papa has
sach an idea OF money, you know, and
he thinks am wildly extravagant to
spend that small amount on candies,
flowers, novels and theater tickets.
Mamma orders all my clothing, you
know, and so, OF course. do not have |
to buy any thing that really need"
To many ayoung girl $40 week
would seem sufficient for pocket
money, and, indeed, how many hum
dreds OF pretty aud clever girls are
there who can not earn more than that
amount even by working hard each
day of the weekp But the average
fashionable society girl has 80 many
demands on her purse that $40 does not
go far.
1t is said that Jay Gould very gener-
ously allows his daughter $25, and with
this she not only supplies her own lit
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small charities.
Cornelius Vanderbilt and Elliot F.
Shepard allow each Of their six chill
dren certain amount Of pocket money
each month, and they are all required
to keep cash accounts and present
them to their papas the first Of each
month. The amounts are not large,
and are given more to make the little
millionaires understand the value oil
, money than aught else.
Willie X. Vanderbilt's three children
are allowed plenty Of money. but are
;, fined heavily for all misdemeanors.
They dine in pretty little room ada
cent to the great dining saloon, and II
! u tiny drop OF any coffee, milk or wine
) is spilled on the snowy cloth the Of
: fender is fined 25 cents for each offense
. A glass OF water knocked over or ,
. dish let fall on the floor brings q fin,
q OF so cents to the culprt, aud all thu
i tines 60 to the Foreign and Home Mis-
sion.
"What do do with my 800 weekp'
n uohcu 1H ouiy u"uSu.ot Vi NAV'
:, avenue millionaire, when asked tn,
= question. '.Well, not always the sam,
= thing. Last week spent every cen
Of it on lovely new parasol, to carr.
=, at a coaching parade, and then afte
" all my trouble it poured rain. l gen
!, orally purchase my flowers-you kno,
. l must have fresh corsage cluster G
- violets every day and they cost do
= lar a cluster.
"rhen bonbons soda. chocolate an
= those little trifles come to about IS, an
n couple of matinee tickets, tea for m
4 old women at the Home for the Aged
- new music and papors cat up the res
| am fearfully short sometimes, and
: draw in advance and forget to pa
=, back. don't you knowP Papa used
- - allow me 80 much every quarter IL
- my wardrobe and maid, but | was a
ways in deep water. Now order wh'
want and have the bills sent to him.
= - IL do not think that the wealthie
:, New Workers. are more than liberal
a .allowing pocket money to their daugl
:, ters," said the principal OF fashions
~ y. BILE uptown school. ''My pupils ar
- most of them, daughters of millio
=, - aires, and yet they have seldom enoua
=, for their many little wants. It is wi
;. dom, not mcanness. on the part Of Il
:" parents, l think. IN. Y. Sun.