Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 310, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1910 — GIRL, 16, ON $20,000 A YEAR [ARTICLE]

GIRL, 16, ON $20,000 A YEAR

New York Woman Estimates What Her Daughter Needs to Live on Comfortably. New York.—A girl of 16 can get along on $20,000 a year and live comfortably, according to the estimate of Mrs. Emily Ladenburg, who has applied to County Judge Edgar Jackson at Mineola, L. 1., for that amount for her daughter, Eugenia. Miss Ladenburg is heir to a fortune, the disposition of which is at present in the hands of the court. Her mother, who is a member of the Meadowbrook colony, filed a petition asking for the allowance mentioned. In the petition Mrs. Ladenburg says that her own income is only $8,900 a year and that it takes all that for the bare necessities of life. Her schedule of what her daughter needs for the next year is: Maid, S2O a month. Governess, S6O a month. Clothing, $67 a month, with SI,OOO more for traveling and evening clothes. Maintenance of an automobile, $2,000 a year. Maintaining- two horses, $34 a month, with extra hprses, amount not specified. Groom, S6OO a year, with extra grooms, amount not specified. Tickets to Europe, Miss Ladenburg and maid, SSOO. Traveling expenses, $240. ‘ F Theaters and other amusements* $250. , Hotel expenses abroad, ten months. $5,500. Maintenance of country place at Westbury, $5,000. Rent of apartment on return from Europe, $720. Tuition and dancing lessons, $1,250. Treatment of teeth and jaw trouble, SI,OOO. Music and incidentals, amount not specified. Decision was reserved.