"23 years service.
This house -is a four-room house and attic.
Solary timate and includ-fag allowances $435.00 Household expenses—330.00
Balance $105.00
This balance of $105 has -to cover wife's allowance, amusements, clothing and something to put by for @ rainy day as well as any subscriptions to clubs, etc., also calls for benevolence, etc.
Now Sir, I have cut off some lurid remarks which I had appended below. They let off steam and have hurt no one. I am not grumbling, but all I should have got out of the Salaries Commission was part of my rent. Now there are times when I have had to use part of interest of investments to cover such expenses as summer holiday for wife and family instead of having sufficient salary to pay it out of current income. This you will agree is not should be.
I am, ete., Shanghai, April 22-
To the Editor of the "Nonru-Cama Datty News."
S1r,—In reply to the letter under the above caption, will you grant me space in your columns to submit my list of monthly necessary expenses?
I am a married man with wife and a child, my mother and a sister and one boarder, living outside the
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