EXPENSIVE LOVE-MAKING
CUPID’S FEES INCREASING. “ Bachelors are finding that the cost ot courting is rising by leaps and bounds.” So says the ‘New York World.’ Mr Arthur Vance, in an article on ‘ The Cost of Courtship,’ asserts that thousands of young men desirous of marrying abandon the intention. “They are staggered by the mere prelude to matrimony,” he says. “The fault is all on the side of the American girls, who hate to have people think that their finances arc niggardly.” Mr Vance makes the following schedule of the expenses of taking a girl to the theatre for a single evening : Flowers 15s Seats 16s Taxicabs to and from the theatre between 10s and 30s Supper at a first-class restaurant ... 25s Total £4 6s He accounts for this rise in courtship liabilities by the foolishly large allowances made to children in their schooldays by American parents, by the insane desire of merely moderately well-todo girls and young men to ape wealthy friends, and by the extravagant habits of the “bachelor girl ” who earns her own living, spends all her salary on clothes, and expects a man to entertain her on a scale equal to her clothes, the result being “ the financial bankruptcy of Ctopkl incurlaJ^^^y.”
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Evening Star, Issue 14555, 2 May 1911, Page 8
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205EXPENSIVE LOVE-MAKING Evening Star, Issue 14555, 2 May 1911, Page 8
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