SIR,—Your headmaster's article must have brought a wry smile to
the faces of many of your readers who are confronted with the real problem of " making ends meet." Ends, of course, can be placed anywhere, and all this amounted to was the happiest and most comfortable way of living on an income of £800 a year.
But, Sir, take another profession, that of minister of religion in all the recognised denominations, Anglican or Free. Here, 1 imagine, the average income is very little more than £400 a year, and most of those now in office are university-trained men. When the days of retirement come, to be certain of an income of even £200 is a blessing. In my own case I do a little better than this, but out of f250 have to find £36 for rates, and £26 for a woman helper two mornings a week. And yet 1 manage to take a 2d. daily paper, and the Spectator, and keep out of debt. Here then is the real problem of how to make ends meet in
these days of rising prices.—Yours, &c., A RETIRED PARSON.
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