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Expenses for
Children
in Society
Services of orthodontist $2,000
Two doctors to watch health of children In serious Illness.. 2,000
Riding lessons, Including ponies 500
Tennis courts, club dues and lessons 500
Dancing lessons for four months 500
Photographs; forty at $25 apiece for each child 2,000
Children’s parties, favors, services of expert organizer..., 5,000
Toys, mechanical dolls, etc 1,000
Trained nurse at $40 a week 2,080
Nursemaid at $50 a month t 600
French nursery governess at $25 a week 1,300
Chauffeur at $160 a month 1,920
Assistant chauffeur and footman at $120 a month 1,440
Upkeep of special 60 horso power automobile at $75 a month 900
Annual proportion of renewing car every three years.... 1,400
Redecorating nursery 500
Kindergarten courses 900
Laundress at $10 a week 520
Twenty-four Paris frocks for the girl at $100 each 2,400
Furs, Including two ermine coats, at $500 each 2,000
Twelve imported suits for boy at $40 each 480
Fifty pairs of shoes, averaging $12 a pair 600
Other clothes, Including linen, etc 2,000
Pocket money ($2 a weik apiece) 208
Jewelry (one pearl each, year for girl) 150
Two-thirds of rent of apartment costing $10,000 annually.. 6,668
Two-thirds of housekeeping expenses totaling $10,000
annually 6,668
Rent, housekeeping expenses, etc., of Summer home 5,000
Little Mildred and
Lawrence Williams
Heye in Their Hand-
tome and Expensive
Ermine Coats.
Explained by
Mrs. George G. Heye,
Whose Husband Has
Cut Her Off with Only
$15,000 a Year.
Total
In an Interview.
S OME) surprise has been ex- havlr
pressed because in my appll- the y
cation for alimony I asked for $3,001
an allowance of $75,000 a year from work
my husband, George G. Heye, and a range
judge even became sarcastic on the donti
subject. my
I can easily show that the amount peopl
asked for is very moderate in view servi
of my husband’s income and the .cure
manner in which we were accus- that
tomed to live. We formerly lived expei
at the rate of $200,000 a year. We j h
occupied an apartment of twenty- est c!
three rooms at No. 667 Madison my ‘
avenue and we had fourteen ser-
vants. We kept six automobiles. At sure
our country house at Rosslyn, L. I., ,
, . . , „ ’ A nui
we had twenty-five servants. ...
I need at least $25,000 apiece an- *
nually for my two children, Mildred ^
Heye, aged eight, and Lawrence
William Heye, aged four. This is kjokh
far less than was spent on them j
up to a year ago. The amount i3 childi
a moderate one compared with the serioi
expenses of the New York children them
with whom mine associate. Only
with care and economy can I give
them the comforts which these chil
dren expect. Many of the heavy
items of expense are necessary to
the health of the children, while
others are needed to enable them to
retain their friends and playmates. g|
The question is not whether the
amount asked is a large one, but
whether it is proportioned to the
income of the father of the chil
dren and the manner in which he
brought them up. Why should these |g|
poor children be deprived of the
comforts and luxuries which they
enjoyed for the earliest years of
their lives, simply because their P
father now chooses to neglect his
wife and family)
Mr. Heye spent more money on a
private museum of Indian antiqui- |f|
ties than I ask tor the education of
his children. He Inherited a large
fortune from his father, Gustave W
Heye, of the Standard Oil Trust He
is a partner in the banking firm of <
Battles & Co., of No. 60 Broadway,
and he has been very successful in
financial undertakings in many parts
of the country. He is even better
known in Philadelphia than in New
York.
The expenses of bringing up a
child according to the standards of
New York society must seem enor-
mous to a salaried worker, but In
what I propose to do I am sure there
Is nothing that is foolish or super
fluous.
I am obliged to live in a central
part of New York, among the friends
we have always had. I occupy an
apartment in the Hotel Langdon, at
the corner of Fifty-sixth street and
Fifth avenue, consisting of a dining
room, a drawing room, a library, one
large sitting room which also serves
as my bedroom; a nursery, a room
for the boy, one for the girl and the
governess’s room. Every bedroom
has a bathroom, and there are ac
commodations for the servants in
another part of the hotel.
Such an apartment costs about come
$10,000 a year for rent. That is con- sons <
sidered moderate in New York. lieaiti
The housekeeping expenses of such eleva
an apartment, including food for
ourselves and all the servants, wages neces
of the servants and chauffeurs, re- liea.L
quires another $10,000. soon
A large proportion of the items of tenn ■
expense—perhaps three-quarters alrc.v
relates to the health of the children tneroi
In some way. The services of the lor t
orthodontist, or tooth straightener. on
tic skill to arrange them, and they
require a large outlay of money.
Sometimes a little play is present
ed, or a masquerade. Small children
may dress as Mother Goose charac
ters and recite the rhymes while
acting them. For children a little
older, new games are invented.
Two charming sisters, who are en
tertainers, have received $500 for
arranging a single afternoon party.
When you arrange an interesting
entertainment of this kind, you must
give suitable favors for the guests to
kept as souvenirs. These are often
handsome little presents of silver
or even gold.
When children go to such enter
tainments they must give something
similar In return.
At my children’s Thanksgiving Day
feast, a caterer furnished a minia
ture farmyard for a table decoration.
It was complete even to the electric
wiring in the little lanterns hanging
on the bapn doors. Tiny figures of
the farmer and his family were in
the landscape decorations. Last
Easter they had a rabbit three feet
tall that had electric bulbs in his
eyes, which opened and closed.
At Christmas they will have a
large tree. Their friends will come
in a few each day, so that the ex
citement of having too large a party
may be avoided. We should be care
ful not to hurt children’s nerves by
making their entertainments too ex
citing.
The children expect to have a box
How Science
The Heye Children in Their Specially Constructed Nursery Surrounded by Their Costly Toys.
ndigestion I call In two skilful bile of their own to take them to frock from Paris that cannot be
siciians to attend them. I have school and other places where they equalled anywhere. About $100 is a
, in order that one may check the cannot walk. Of course they can moderate price for such a frock. A
;r. If either of them suggests it, never go in street cars or public little girl like mine needs about two
all in the most distinguished conveyances. I must have.a chauffeur dozen frocks of this kind in a year,
lialists in the city. These occa- of the very highest ability and re- I am as economical in this matter
al visits, without a serious ill- liability to look after my children, as I can be, and with this object )
!, easily run away with $2,000. A man of this type expects $160 a keep a good laundress and have
month or more. Then he must have found the best cleaner in town,
a good, reliable assistant to help the My children would be very An-
children in and out, and see that happy if they could not have as good
they reach their destination safely, clothes as any in their set. The little
The children are taking a kinder- boy from one corner of Fifth avenue
garten course at the Froebel League, immediately sees that the little boy
and that is one of the smallest ex- from the other corner is' wearing
penses I have to meet. As they grow cheap clothes, and has no delicacy
older the expenses of education will in telling him about it.
increase at a great rate. When the Little children are now expeoted
boy goes to college it will cost at to wear pretty furs, and these cost
least $5,000 a year, if he is to keep an astonishing amount of mopey.
up his intimacy with the boys he My children have very pretty ermine
knows now. If the girl is to have coats, and I neel hardly tell you
lessons in singing and music from that they are valuable; but their
usual flow of blood to those portions
and a dearth of it to other parts of
the brain. This w-ould not be seri
ous if it happened only now and
then, for every brain cell should be
replenished by more than the usual
flow of blood at times to keep it
properly fed and nourished.
But a constant overfeeding of
these cells causes a congestion
there. The cells become more and
more distended. The worry grows
more and more acute. The pound
ing of the blood against the sides of
the cells acquires a hammerlike vio
lence. The sides of the cells wear
thin. A cell bursts. There is a so-
called ‘clot on the brain.” Death
follows.
The cure of the worry that kills is
prevention. Refuse to worry. Do
your best, and, having done this, de
cline as positively to fret about the
results as you would decline to drink
a draught of poison. Worry comes
as an occasional visitant to every
one, but as we shut our doors to un
welcome visitors, so we close the
portals against the entrance of
worry. Admitted, it ceases to be
come a visitor—it is a habit, and a
habit that destroys. The action ol
worry upon the brain cells is most
like the constant dropping of water
upon a stone. At first it makes not
the slightest impression upon tha
stone, but in time it wears it away.
The cells of the brain are of more
delicate tissue, and the steady wear
and tear of the extra blood supply
in time quickly wears them out.
Or, according to medical science,
it is as though a garment worn day
after day without change soon falls
into tatters. Examinations of the
brain after death have shown a
group of nerve cells at the crown of
the head that have perished in tha
same way the nerve of a tooth dies.
While every other brain cell seems
to be in ordinary condition this
group has shrunken. It is a curious
coincidence, and science says a con
sequence, as inevitable as effect
after cause, that the hair on tha
portion of the scalp just above this
brain area is the first to grow w-hite.
Heat in the scalp causes hair to
grow gray, and an excess of blood in
any portion of the brain causes the
scalp above that portion to be over
heated.
A good orthodontist insists on
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