COSTLY DAUGHTERS

Shannon News, 23 July 1929, Page 1

COSTLY DAUGHTERS

ACCOUNTANT’S ESTIMATE.

Clearing out old receipt files awakens old and sometimes painful memories (writes an accountant *in the Daily Mail).

Recently, he says, he came upon a receipted doctor's bill for £3O. That was <he baby.. Pinned to this was another for £24 "15s! 3d. in payment to a lady called a “monthly nurse,” -although die apparently stayed six weeks. Messrs. Blank gratefully acknowledge receipt of £lO “to one dark blue por?„mbulator. ” And so it. went on.

Before she was a few weeks in this world baby had a large debit to set off against her rebate on the income tax. \nd the initial cost is nothing compared with the maintenance charges, which now in her third year are mounting appreciably. The writer goes on. to say:—“The listurbing thought comes to me: How uucli will she have cost by the time die is 21? School bills considered. I doubt if the outlay will be less than K3OOO. When on some distant day a tervous young man informs me that ho, wishes to marry my daughter. I shall •jot ask him whether he can support her in a worthy, state;. L : shall hand him a neatly-docketed ; bundle of re■cipted bills. ’ ‘My dear fellow, ’ I shall say, you :an have hex* by all means—at a valuaion. Just cast your eye through these ■ ecounts and you will see that she has •ost me £3OOO 18s. lOd. I shall charge \\ per cent, commission only. Take her or leave her!' ”