The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-08-19
FORTY SERVANTS FoR THE FAMILY.

AS you go on through the town pal
ace of u up-to-date multi-millionaire
of the -extravagant class you discover
that it is arranged in suites-some-
what like a very handsome and ex-
elusive private hotel. And then you
learn hat here is not me establish
ment, but seven, each separate and
distinct. Our multi-millionaire's fam
lily have outgrown family life and are
living upon the most ar~istocatric Eu-
ropean plan.
The wife lives in the suite you have
Just seen; in a smaller suite, more
plainly furnished, lives the husband;
in a third suite lives the grown son;
in a fourth, the grown daughter; in a
fifth and sixth, these the smallest, live
the young son and the young daugh-
ter. The seventh establishment con
sists of forty-two personal assistants
and servants.
Each member of the family has his
or her own sitting-room and there re-
ceives callers from within or without
the family-except that the daughter
receives men callers in the smallest of
the three reception-rooms on the
ground floor. Each has his or her
W personal attendants; each lives
his or her separate social life. They
rarely meet at breakfast-it is more
comfortable to breakfast in. ones sit
ting-room; they rarely meet at lun-
cheon-luncheon is the favorite time
for going to ones intimates; they
rarely meet at dinner-one or more
are sure to be dining out.
EACH MEMBER HAS A LITTLE "sPEND-
ING MONEY"
Our multi-millionaire did not make
his fortune; he inherited it, but he
has been very shrewd in managing it,
for all his extravaganza. Though he
is cautious about expenses in one way,
he shows by the allowances he makes
to the various members of his family
that he is really generous and believes
in carrying out to the uttermost the
idea that the family must live in state.
His wife has a million in her own
name, but he makes her an allowance
of $780, 600 a year to maintain herself
and their household. The grown son
hoe boJ n oI1owonoo Of coz O0O a
year, and when he marries it will be
trebled-perhaps quadrupled. This is
large for persons of their fortune, but
many fathers of smaller means are
doing as well by their children, and
our multi-millionaire will not see his
children suffer. His grown daughter
has an allowance of $15,O0O-more
than she needs, as she has only to buy
her clothes and pay her small expen-
ses out of it. The boy in college has
$4,000 a year; he is always in debt, but
his mother helps him. The youngest
child has $40 a week-her clothes are
bought for her and she can always get
money from either her father or her
mother when she wishes to make hand
some presents.
On dress Mrs. Northumberland
spends about $4,000 a year. You will
not see her many times in the same
hat or gown; and she has a passion
for real lace Undertaking and for
those stockings which seem to have
been woven on fairy looms of some
substance so insubstantial that only
fairies could handle it. She bought
$4,000 worth of Undertaking when
she was in Paris last May. Her bills
at those dressmakers' we're 1000,
and at two milliners', $1,4OO. She has
about $4,000 invested in p~arasols. She
has $4,000 worth of wraps-sables,
chinchilla and ermine cannot be got
for small sums. She has many even
ing dresses that cost from $500 to
$1,000 each. She has few dresses that
cost as little as 1928. The average
price for her hats would be, perhaps
$50. She had one with fur on it last
winter which. cost 1915.