Show 9 r I The Family Spender r 4 i I I Who Vho spends the tho most for tor clothes clothes In your your family papa V-papa or mama 1 v The average rage husband spends more for clothes than the tho average wife says laYS the United States de department de- de of ot lab labor r which has made an annual for the average American wife That's for not nott This budget totals a year t d t month he The budget budet a lows only one hat a year The hat cost ost according to this governmental budget t The wool coat costs 2361 Rut But in fine deference to the the modern womans woman's demand for silken lingerie the budget p permits one silk vest veat one silk chemise one silk night gown frown and one silk Ilk kimona One of silk stockings at 12 One union suit ault and one woolen undershirt shades of our foremothers are enumerated in this Illuminating budget But nut I 1 did not especially set forth to quibble about either ther the amount of 0 the budget or tho the various various va va- rious Items permitted Tlc Tie thing which really Intrigued me was this belated governmental recognition that a husband ponds pOnda more money for his clothes than a woman This is only what every wife er c every woman has hus known for lo 10 th these long and weary years s Yes ye Yf w wa fI know all alt the tho old arguments I Papa must well In his work Its It's a matter matt mattot of ot busi busl- nose ness A A man out in the world must look successful success success- fut ful In to be successful Some truth In this theory theol of ot course But Dut also theres there's a lot of ot bunk in rt K The truth of ot the tile matter is hat that men do not have ha never o ha had and never ne will have the economy instinct If It women ar arent aren't nt born bom with It and I think they they are they are forced foed to acquire it A wife and mother Is In closer doter contact with the tho needs of hei hez home horne and family than Is the husband huband She ibe knows tho million d demands mands' made de upon the family wallet Besides she he cares caree more No one will Hill deny that th the the- spirit Of ot un unselfish love and und devotion d to those about her Is much stronger in women than men Few lew fathers would 11 1 sacrifice orifice and economize as ai aido do mothers even if the acute need for such Buch sacrifice and economy were brought home homo to them |