London's Latest.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLV, Issue 270, 31 December 1903, Page 4

London's Latest.

A BANKRUPT GIRL. A new victim of hard times has Jjeen found (says the London corj*e;por<(fent of the New York Herold). It is a varieat of the girl niuestion, and in addition to the iiachelor girl, the matiisje girl and «i ihoteand and one other ciasslncaions there is now the bankrupt girl. Her sad straits are not directly-due Jo financial stringency, nor is bridge specially to blame. The allowance .ivliich was sufficient for tiie needs i.i' the unmarried gfrls a few. years J«KO is now declared to be entirely inadequate. One young woman thus voices the j.lain* of herself and sisterhood : "Five years ago," she writes; " I Jiad ,an allowance from my father of X7o per aimiiiii, amd it sufficed. To- « ay, after my ailowaince has been luised to £IOO, since January Ist, J find 1 am behind in my accounts, (illiftjugh I've not beei- one whit > lore exti'avaigaint tha. when my iillowance was smaller." This letter was put before a woman who has four .dauSlbtei-s, each «>f whom has an allowance of £IOO ii year. "It is quite true," she said, "that <!ie expenditure of unmarried girls Jas risen, it has gone up in pro--1 ortian with the demands made up«.n the purses of married women. As 1 heir dress Ims becoiiu> more expen. nive, so, too, has that of unmarried 14iris. My daughters insist upon bej:ig tujrnod out as welt as m!a|i-ried (•vornen, and their allowances do rot suffice. They are in a constant Mate of bankruptcy, in spite of their a: 100 a year, paid Quarterly. "I <• (tribute this to club subscriptions Iheati-es, tips—what woman ever Kave a tip twenty years ago '— tountry house visits, gewgaws, hintheon parties at West End restaurants, and wedding presents."