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Show ! . , : High Cost of Living The high cost of living has been the constant subject of housewife eonversa- tion for the past few years, and even j with the assistance of their less worthy husbands they have been unable to feasibly account for the present conditions. con-ditions. Even the children at play have j talked of the high cost of living though j the whole thing was French to them. ; The following account will help to sub- stantiate my argument: Two children ! playing in the garden, learning from the nurse that mamma had a baby boy, rushed madly to see their little brother. They both gazed at the little one for a ! moment without a single smile, then . Nell turned to her little sister, with eyes full of astonishment and remarked, remark-ed, "Aint M.im n i good to buy such a 1 big boy when meat is so high?" ; Whether all this nation-wide discus-1 discus-1 sion has anything to do with the cost of babies we do not profess to know, 1 but we can figure out a few causes of high cost of living to our own satisfaction. satisfac-tion. The cost of production of the raw material an J in anut'act jr s isn't much . higher than ten years ago, generally 1 speaking, and there are more acres ! under cultivation to-day than ever before. be-fore. Mills and manafactures are all i busy as usual. About the only deduction deduct-ion we can make is that the monopolies are, more or less, responsible for con li-tions. li-tions. For example: the rew freight schedule due to the recent ruling will go into effect about Sept. 1, and the great reduction in cost of shipping will mean a great benefit to the consumer. 1 The Hotel Utah recently finished at Salt Lake City would have saved over ?o0,0.)0 o:i materials had they built after Sept. 15. Kates on all articles to be shipp 'd will be reduced accordingly. If Uncle S nil just keeps busy busting trusts we may have ge in the price of eatables. |