القرن التاسع عشر ، رقم ١٨٢، أبريل ١٨٩٢ [ظ‎‎٣‎٠] (٢٤٤/٦٥)

550
THE NINETEENTH
April
give the tables of cost of living compiled by Mr. Alfred Pollard with
the aid of experts. Arithmeticians may amuse themselves with
calculating in how many years a teacher, twenty-six years of age,
with a salary of 120^., may, by saving 16^. a year, secure an annuity
of 70£. a year; and may then attack the more interesting problem of
the probabilities of any school retaining her in its employment for
that length of time.
Cost of L
Salary £80
Salary £100
Salary £120
Salary £150
Board and lodging during
£
d.
£
s.
d.
£
s.
d.
£
s.
d.
term, say 40 weeks
42 0
0
60
0
0
60
0
0
60
0
0
Half rent during holidays
3 0
0
4
0
0
4
0
0
5
0
0
Railway and other expenses
for six weeks of holidays
' with friends
3 0
0
4
0
0
4
0
0
4
0
0
Six weeks of holidays at own
expense . . . .
7 10
0
9
0
0
]2
0
0
15
0
0
Educational books . .
0 10
0
1
0
0
2
0
0
3
0
0
Dress
14 0
0
15
0
0
15
0
0
20
0
0
Petty cash for omnibuses,
amusements, presents, chari
ties, &c. &c.
3 0
0
4 10
0
6
0
0
9
0
0
Laundry .....
3 10
0
3
10
0
3
10
0
Q
o
10
0
Medical attendance and pro
vision against sickness
3 10
0
5
0
0
7
10
0
7
10
0
Sum available towards pro
vision for old age .
0 0
0
4
0
0
16
0
0
23
0
0
£80 0
0
100
0
0
O
CM
_ !—H .
0
0
160
0
0
It will be observed that these teachers are even here supposed to
have friends who will put up with them for six weeks. And attention
may be especially called to the magnificent sum that can be set apart
for educational books and lectures. Frivolous books, such as the works
of Walter Scott, Thackeray, George Eliot, George Meredith,
Browning, E . L. Stevenson, must be presented by friends or borrowed
in all their grime and dirt from a free library.
If this is the position of a favoured thousand, the position of the
rest may be inferred. Of the whole number, however, a considerable
proportion are teachers in elementary schools, and do not come from
Class H. I have no means of separating the two. Imagination may
be stimulated by perusing the employment columns of such a paper
as The Lady, where advertisements appear for governesses at uncon
scionably low salaries, reaching occasionally to almost a minus quantity
when some more than ordinarily audacious matron offers a comfortable
home to a governess in return for the education of her children and
twelve shillings a week.
Are girls worth educating ? Apparently not, as their parents do