14 DECEMBER 1907, page 16

• Middle-class Expenditure.

LTD THE EDITOR OF THE 'SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—Being interested in this subject, I venture to offer my experience. I used to apportion my expenditure into sixty- fourths of my (fixed)......

When Does Old Age Begin? Pro The Editor Op Tiiii

"SPROTATORM SIE,—The interesting and humorous article in your last number on this subject seems to me to contain one grave mistake when it speaks of the ' service of the......

[to The Editor Of The "spectator."]

SIR,—It might possibly interest "A Bad Economist" (Spectator, November 30th), and give point to the saying that one half the world does not know how the other half lives, if you......

"the Mollusc" And Jane Allgten. "

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." cannot agree with " Ignotus" that Mr. Davis " created " Mrs. Baxter. Long ago Jane Austen detected a human mollusc, and immortalised it as......

The Charity Organisation Society In West Ham.

[To THE EDITOR OF TEX " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—I venture to appeal. to your readers on behalf of the two Committees of the Charity Organisation Society in West Ham to which I am......

150 The Editor Oe The "spiccratoil" Had Hoped That "a

Bad -Economist's" letter (Spectator, November 30th) as to the difficulty of making ends meet on 22,000 a year might have produced some practical comparisons which would have......