But there are many people who, like a certain clergyman’s wife, think that girls are getting “uppish nowadays” when they hear that after three years at Girton and two years’ experience in teaching, an assistant mistress refuses less than £120 a year. There are thousands of mothers like one who wanted a lady graduate as daily governess for her boys “quite regardless of expense,” and who was even willing to pay £30 a year! Wealthy residents of Notting Hill and Kensington send their children to high schools whose managers dare not ask more than a maximum fee of £15 a year. For their enlightenment I 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 Living._ +----------------------------+-------------+-------------+ | | Salary | Salary | | | £80. | £100. | +----------------------------+-------------+-------------+ |Board and lodging during | £ _s._ _d._| £ _s._ _d._| | term, say 40 weeks | 42 0 0 | 50 0 0 | |Half-rent during holiday | 3 0 0 | 4 0 0 | |Railway and other expenses | | | | for six weeks of holiday | | | | with friends | 3 0 0 | 4 0 0 | |Six weeks of holidays at own| | | | expense | 7 10 0 | 9 0 0 | |Educational books | 0 10 0 | 1 0 0 | |Dress | 14 0 0 | 15 0 0 | |Petty cash for omnibuses, | | | | amusements, presents, | | | | charities, etc. etc. | 3 0 0 | 4 10 0 | |Laundry | 3 10 0 | 3 10 0 | |Medical attendance and | | | | provision against sickness| 3 10 0 | 5 0 0 | |Sum available towards | | | | provision or old age | 0 0 0 | 4 0 0 | +----------------------------+-------------+-------------+ | |£80 0 0 |100 0 0 | +----------------------------+-------------+-------------+