The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-12-06
When Girls Live on
S25 a Week and on $500

portionate in so busy a schedule,
though there are many girls who keep
this item below that sum.
Miss Lorena Carroll was another
whose young life was just a struggle
to make both ends meet with the
modest allowance of st2.500 a year
that was accorded her under the will
of her father, Joseph Carroll of Fiss,
Doerr & Carroll so at the age of Is
she told it to the Surrogate, who in
a matter of Two years had already
increased her pittance from $4,000 to
$12, 800 a year. That was in the dire
days Of the war, which made a differ
ence. But she had special sorrow,
one which may be prevalent at the
Ogontz School but which lot Of girls
never know-she wanted new tour
ing car because her old one was out
of date, and it would be cheaper to get
a new one, even at war prices, than
to have the old one doctored up. The
upkeep of the new bus, with club dues
and insurance, she figured into her APP
peal at $4,000. The rest of her grief
ran like this:
For clothing, tailored suits, school
dresses, coats, sport coats, sweaters,
evening gowns, party gowns, lingerie,
shoes, stockings, skirts, shirt waists,
jewelry, hats, parasols, furs, toilet
articles, perfumes, collars, ribbons,
laces, manicuring, shampooing and
hairdressing, $4,000; for household eX-
penses, $4,000; for insurance, bonds for
her guardian, burglary insurance and
insurance on household effects, $3.50;
for education, $4,000: for pleasure, in
Guiding travel, rent of summer cottage,
railroad fares, hotel bills, luncheons,
dinners, dances and 'theater parties,
$4,000; for physicians. opticians,
dentists and drugs and medicines,
$1,000"
On the 23d of January of the pres
ent year Surrogate Foley awarded
an allowance of $4,000 year for the
support of Miss Muriel H. Wurts-
Dundas, aged 10, who then lived at
the Touraine, 9 East Thirty-ninth
street. Her guardian, Mr.. George +.
Lawrence of Short Hills, asked for
$4,000, but the Surrogate cut 1T down
a thousand in order to convince him
self that he was still master OF his
feelings. The income that grand
avuncular precaution had supplied for
the young lady's protection was
ample, the petition set forth. 1t
amounted to 100000 per annum, from
coal properties in the Lippincott tract.
in Schuylkill county, Pa, of which her
great uncle, James Douglas Lippin-
colt, had been the owner. Miss Muriel
was her parents only child. There
was no one to share with.
The application expressed desire
to secure for her a modest apartment
where she might be surrounded with
the comforts of home life, and this
is what they we're: Rent, $4,000;
companion and two servants, $4,000;
education, $4,000; automobile upkeep,
$4,000; travel, physicians, church,
charities and amusements, $500.
This year seems to have brought
forward from cpncealment many
cases of need. On the 9Th of Febru-
airy, for example, the court issued an
order to the executors of the estate
of the late Peter Cooper Hewitt to
show cause why his daughter, Miss
Ann Cooper Hewitt, aged 8, should no.
receive the accrued net income from
her fathers estate and have the reg
ular sum fixed for her maintenance
advanced from $4,000 to $4,000. The
application was made by her mother,
who was also her guardian, and who
last year was married in Paris to
Baron d'Erlanger. Mr.. Hewitt in his
will had provided that his wife and
daughter should receive the income
from certain securities, not, however,
to exceed $24, 900 a year between them,
but an accounting by the Farmers
Loan and Trust Company as trustee
had shown that there was $780,
59171 in the estate, and which sug-
gested that some $4,000 more per
annum might we'll be used to render
little Ann more comfortable.
When Roy A. Curtiss died he left
his widow the residence in Seventy
sixth street, insurance of 100000 and
four little boys, now respectively 10,
10, and 6 years old. In the will
Mrs. Curtiss was cut off from parti-
cipation in the residuary estate, but
on the basis of her husbands share
in the estate of his father, the late
Frank Curtiss, she asked the Surro-
gate for an allowance of $4,000 for
the maintenance of her four sons.
And here was the way the schedule CT
their necessities ran:
personal expenses of all four sons,
$2S,6OO a year; food. $4,000; four SER
wants, $4,000; laundry, $1,000; fuel,
$72O; telephones and lighting, $3.50;
garage expense, gasoline and upkeep
of automobiles, $4,000, and mainte-
nance of chauffeur. $1,000"