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Show I FEMALE EXTRAVAGANCE. H Writes a gentleman from Colum- H bus, Ohio, full of conviction and much feeling, on the subject of a story in 1 . the lisuo of Collier's of January l8, and these, among other things, ho says: "I wonder if you or Mr. Jackson really know what a tremendous problem prob-lem he has touched in his story of SMr. Chatwick,' or have any idea of the prevalence of the type. "It seems to me that one-fourth of the business men I know arc driven as by fiends, racing along to keep ahead of the all but infernal demands of amiable American women. Their extravagance is national in scope; it is squandering life, and will end in wreck. "The fact of the matter is that our entire American notion of the status of woman needs revising. We arc doing her a wrong by permitting her to cultivate selfishness to the point of brutality. "She sets the scale of living in thii country. And she sets it one notch at least above her husband's purse. "This is a standard topic for joke-makers, joke-makers, but is is joked about too much. To thousands of men it is a dire reality. I am not a misogynist. I am not voicing a personal grief. Not II The chief points of light in the gray days that spread before me are memories of ten bright years, with a true comrade, a well, I will not stop to search out words fine enough for her the more I saw of some women, the more I thanked God for her! No, it is the troubles of my friends I am voicing, and there arc thousands in bondage to American petticoat finance." fi-nance." Now what do the ladies leply to this long talc of wo? Is it sound an J fury only, or will the indictment hold against the sex? |