[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR...]
SIR,—Having seen "A Bad Economist's" letter, I venture to send you the particulars of my expenditure of about £2,000 a year. I may say that I have kept very careful accounts for some years past, and the actual figures under various beads work out as follows :—Household expenses, including wages of indoor servants, coals, indoor repairs, and children's clothes (oue child in nursery), £605 ; personal expenses, £85; shooting, £54; garden, £163; stable, £203; estate expenses, including wages of two odd men, outside repairs, repairs to farmhouses, &c., £185; travelling, £131; medical, £76; charity, £100; rates and taxes, £131; insurance, £78; wife's allowance, MOO ; total, £1,911. I may say that for this we keep seven indoor servants, coachman, groom, and three horses, and three gardeners. Of course to these expenses rent of house (say £200) ought to be added to make a fair comparison with others.—Hoping these figures may be of interest to others similarly situated, I am, Sir,
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