MO THE EDITOR OP TEE "SPECTATOR."] gnA, — With regard to one
of the points urged against the pill in the second paragraph of your article of June 6th, I ventpre, since no one else has touched on the point, to suggest that two people living together and sharing expenses spend less than the total spent by two individuals living apart. The two sisters whose case you mention spend in rent, coal, light, and also in minor ways the same as either would be obliged to spend if living alone instead of sharing expenses with her sister. Their joint allowance of 7s. 6d. would go further for the two than 5s. for the one alone. Is it quite fair, therefore, to speak of such a reduction as a "fine," and to hint, at dire consequences likely to be entailed by it ? Surely, rather, if what I have suggested be true, the Government should be commended for devising this means of lessening the great cost of the Bill to the country.—I am, Sir, &c.,
H. M. L. ARNOLD.
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