The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-11-16
AN EXPENSIVE CHILD.
Little DorOthea Grouse Should Have
Golden Toys.
Referee Has Decided That $500 n
Year is Needed for Her support.

Little Dorothea Edgarita Grouse, who Is
years old and would rather DO called
Dodie than all the rest of it, spends moro
money per year than the whole family of
an average professional man in New York.
OF course she does not spend 10 herself.
A curly headed little girl In the full enjoy
ment of her dolls has no time To go around
spending 81, 500 every year, but the referee
appointed for that purpose has reported
that 81, 500 Is the proper annual allowance
for this girl, who was not even known to
be his daughter when Daniel Edgar
Grouse died in Syracuse and left a fortune
of S5, 900, 900.
Ii would puzzle most people to spend
$3.50 week ON 9-year-old child. Dolls,
doll dishes and doll clothes wouldn't take
up any approciable amount OF it, and, as
for eating and clothes n twentieth part of
the sum would pay for those in ordinary
cases. This, however, is no ordinary case.
This Is not 9-year-old girl of dolls and
doll dishes, white stockinged little girl
with two 'pigtails' 20 her shoulders--no,
indeed. This Is a much more important
young lady. Her expenses embrace sal
aries of maid and a governess, masters
of German, French, Italian. music and art,
laundress, cook and other attendants
and servants
Dorothoa Edgarita Grouse doesn't know
these are her attendants, exactly. She calls
the house "mammas." The cook and
laundress also think mamma" is their
mistress, but they are wrong
1t took threats of a lawsuit to bring the
next of kin" heirs of Millionaire Grouse
TO compromise with the woman who
could prove she was his wife.
Eut1a ~ .tz, H.
came Mrs. Kosterlitz, is the mother of
tho rich little girl When Grouse was
alive, he passed for a bachelor, and not
until this widow came forward with her
lawyers and her documents all in proper
shape was it known that the millionaire
had wife and child
After the compromise, which will even
tually give the child $4,000, 900, the New
York Security and Trust company was
appointed general guardian OF the estate
Of the infant.
The company received from the execu-
tors of the estate of Mr.. Grouse, as the
share which the little girl was entitled to
under the settlement, S770, ,052.72. There
Is an accumulation Of income from this of
$l7, ,345. %, and it is estimated that the in
come ior the ensuing year will amount to
$23, 333 In addition to this there is OK:
pected q further sum for the child from
Mr.. Cropse's estate, which will eventually
increase the little ones income to $25, 600
a year.
Grouse died in 1892, and since that time
the little girls mother has testified before
Referee George c. Austin that she has
spent nearly $50, 900 on the education of
the child.
Naturally Dorothea Edgarita, or, as she
calls herself, "Dodie, " san extraordinarily
accomplished child.
She speaks three or four languages,
plays, sings, draws and dances
According TO evidence adduced before
the referee, she has coachman and car
riages.
Between driving ard being prepared for
the station she will occupy when she Is a
young lady with S2,00O,O 900 in her own
right this poor little rich girl cannot get
much time for dolls, skipping rope or 9TH
CT delights of normal children.
Referee Austin, in his report TO the sur
rogate, says that ST. 800 a year is not an
excessive allowance. Ho also recommends
that S32, $50 be repaid tho mother, she hay
ing spent that amount for the child s main
tenanco and education so far. New York
Journal.