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Show Tax on Corsets Causes . Milady Much' Anguish Wr HILE there is little, if any, doubt in the average billpay-er billpay-er 's mind as to the classifiea-I classifiea-I tiou of corsets as luxuries, said i billpayer ueither made the recent tax j nor does he enforce it. That's the job I of the federal government, and said I cfovernmcnt is having a lot of harsh wordu sa'"l about the tax on corsets, thciC davs. Of course, one realises that !tbe government itself can't hear in its j collective pcson all the complaints registered, reg-istered, so the shopgirl v ho stands at 'the corset, counter bears the bruut of ; irate feminine woe. And woe there has been aplenty in the past week, when madam had to i be told that her contemplated corset was nothing but uudcrwear and therefor there-for subject to the excess tax. Humors had beeu spread abroad bearing the . ..1 .7 ;.i;,,,.o tl,..l ll.iu .1r;-.V.l.T nlf. ment of womanly attire was not underwear, un-derwear, as charged bv ignorant males, and would escape the blight of tax. But apparently the ignorant males continued contin-ued ignorant when it came to interpret-iug interpret-iug the tax, and it costs 10 per cent additional to get the fancy ones nowadays, nowa-days, regardless. If woman can content her soul with a modest pair of stays costing'less than C'. she need not distort her fair brow with wrinkles of perplexity. The war tax applies only on the "high eoeiet '' corsets, with fancy colors and elaborations elabora-tions intended for decorative purposes. Bcniguantlv. the government allows H'j worth of corset free of t:: If milady mi-lady should "blow" herself to the extent ex-tent of. say, SS she would have to pay a tax of 10 per cent on the extra three dollars. iro. benedict;,, impress upon the minds of your better halves that economy is a virtue and should be practiced prac-ticed pxncchlllv when l-invlt,.. ...,r..oL. |