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Show WAR WIDOW ADVISES ECONOttT 41 tl tf SOCIETY ASKED TO RETRENCH 1 , i L ADY JULIET DUFF, who has entered upon a campaign to reduce the expenditures of 2,000,000 spenders in Great Britain. I , 1 One of Best-dressed Women Wom-en in London Will Modify Dress to Uniformity. Special Cable to The Tribune. LONDON, Sept. 25. Lady YTim borne and Lady Duff are the leaden in . the work uf the Women s War Economy league, which is trying to reduce the uersonftJ expenditures of the 8,000,000 of Ureal BritaUt'fl people who spend onedialf of the total income of the country's 43,- 000,000 inhabitant. I-ady Duff is a war widow. Her hus band, were he alive, would now bear the title of Sir Robin Ash eton -Smith. He bequeathed to her and his small son an Income of about a million dollars a year. This league has six items in its j pledge, but the members have promised to limit themselves as to all luxuries, especially those which mean money spent on imported goods. They will have nothing to do with the new fashions, fash-ions, will give up their motor cars, except ex-cept for urgent business or charity, wib renounce entertaining in the restaurants, restrict their meals at home, discharge all men servants except those ineligible for war service, and, furthermore, diligently dili-gently strive to influence their friends and dependenls to do the same. Lady Duff was formerly one of the best dressed women in London. She announces an-nounces that she is no longer to in-dulgc in-dulgc in evening or ball costumes, and wV" ffvo 110 "lore largo dinner parties. Otie or two intimate friends may be iu-vitVd iu-vitVd in to lunch or dinner to a frugal mel of two courses, instead , of five. SucP a thing as a holiday at the sea-ideif sea-ideif not to bo tolerated, since it means tnoncu spent on railroad fare and tips to prters, now to be classed as luxuries lux-uries A In the London Times. Kochfort Ma-guire, Ma-guire, V gentleman well known in society, socie-ty, whPse wife is a sister to Viscount Peel, hsV made the suggestion that if the ladies Aat to economize ou clothes they should iAdopt n regulation evening dress and a mediation style for Jheir hnts. In this Wa.V they could dispense with the dozen or more different gowns and hnts whiYn every Indv has thought necessary her wardrobe. The men j hnve one Wyl'1 "I" dress for the eventing, even-ting, one 1 8w'e nat tor tnt' afternoon ;uu for tine country they make their choice nmo.PC (no bowler, the Homburg, and (in snnT,!npr) hP straw. Why should not their -pBves ani1 daughters imitate this enunenVy satisfactory method of dressing? ... , , Ladv TresB supports the idea and she thinks' that Pvery woman would look well dressed in iln eveninK Ewu of hlnek satin, I?116,0' taytane. wear the hat question louId ! eapl,v 8lved il evervbodv wefe " Bail' made f vohpt or silk, no hlLto coa1 il Penn3' m0 than $10 nit. re are numerous objectors, ob-jectors, howeiPJ: to .Mr- . Manure scheme other Vn,hes 8vittfi that ? two women could .'pl' HZVOQ " 11 retjulntioii evening dress lgcauie each would want the style antl lol'r ""OSi suitable to her own beauty, whSf the JKlo''tinn 2f an,4' ard bats would bn even more difficult. I |