The Opelousas courier., 1889-05-18
DAUGHTERS ALLOWANCE.
Why She Should Be Paid . Certain fl1eo
Su,n for C1ertain Duties.

WHY She Should Be Paid Q Certain Fixed
sum for Certain Duties.
There is no essential of a girls edu-
cation so often overlooked as practical
training in money matters. 1t is no
uncommon matter for girls OF sixteen
and eighteen to know little or nothing
about value of money. Girls are not as
often bread-winners as boys and do not
earn, and therefore do not learn the
value of money. They remain at
home and the father and mother who
have always provided for their wants
scarcely realize that the child has
grown to womanhood, and when Tor
anv reason the home is broken up the
girl finds that she knows nothing OF
practical values, and this she usually
learns after a bitter experience OF l1fe's
discipline. A wise writer has said:
.The love OF money, with the parallel
the looseness of management OF its
indeed the root of all evil" How can
O. girl learn the management OF her eX-
penditures if she has had no expert
ence? Begin while they are children
and teach them gradually the use OF
money by arranging household work
so they can earn q few pennies and'
perhaps, by giving moneyed rewards
for especial excellence in school. W-on-
ever children are given money letthem
understand it is because they have
earned it by good behavior. Money
should not be doled out to a child as II
it were to a beggar. 1t has a right to
it's allowance. One of the earliest les
sons of life that a parent should en-
deavor to teach by word and deed Is
the law of this world that no value can
be received honestly without the
receiver in some way having
given an equivalent, or in some
way having earned the gift, II
gift it be called, If only by love and
faithfulness. Half the trouble and
vexation of the world is caused by a
failure 10 recognize this law, and by
the endeavor of1the individuals to get
something for nothing. Children that
are early taught that they must furnish
| an equivalent for money received learn
the value of money, and grow up to be
| respected because they are self-re-
| specting.
The plan we have suggested is FOL
lowed in many families, and each child
in the family able to read and write is
paid a certain fixed sum for certain
| duties. while the sums earned by
smaller children are trivial, the chill
dren are compelled to pay out certain
small necessary expenses from them,
and to contribute a penny of their
earning to the church contribution
box each Sunday. AS soon as they
have a dollar saved they are urged to
put it in the bank, unless it is near
/ a birthday or the holidays. when ex-
~traordinary expenditures are in order.
In one family the writer remembers II
Is the rule of the mother to make a
liberal allowance of p~aper-pencils and
other sundries for school. and II any o.
these articles are wanted or useC uE
before a certain time the child in fault
is compelled to purchase others from
her own money-a verP definite AND
usually effective way of reaching care
~lessness. By gradually becoming USED
to spending money, and learning by
"paying" the suffering and folly o.
carelessness, the child grows to learr
values, and when she arrives at an age
suitable may use an allowance givel
her wisely and with proper discretion
N. Y, Tribune.