GIRLS AND POCKET-MONEY.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 588, 17 August 1909, Page 3

GIRLS AND POCKET-MONEY.

There was a great .deal of common sense in the remarks made, b,v Mr. Charles Itiisseil at a gatheringof women, on tile subject of girls' pocket-money (says a writer in an English paper). We take a long timo.in ,'this country to- grasp the fact :that girls; should be made independent according to the means of. their-parents. The fqlly of not allowing girls to-have :a fixed .sum to manage for themselves.' - Each'girl should have so much on Which she should be expected to dress, defray air her travelling expenses, buy presents,' contribute to and so on. Some would muddle it, some do wonders with it, but all would by this means learn something of : the valiio of money. • This knowledge of how to'' spend to ' the best advantage, how to manago a sum from which everything has to be done, would save mail, y . a woman and many , a homo 'from disaster, savs Mr. Russell, and, speaking as a: lawyer, he no doubt, knows what, .lie is saying., That children should bo- mado to keep, accounts rigidly is perhaps'. going, a little' too far; it • would tend to make thorn i,sly,' mean,; and priggish; . hut there is cor-'; tainly ajgreat deal in making them-manage' their'money.. °