Show flapper Is a friend of the druggist T IS the flapper who Is keeping IT tile drug store and tile the chemical preparation indest industry ry busy according to tile tho latest official statistics of tile tho census bureau while tile tho american people are turning from the time honored patent clites and druggists preparations tile census bureau has just completed tile tho compilation cOMPlin tion of its figures on tit the census of manu manufacturers in 1021 it has fins three general classifications covering tho the basic business of drug stores druggists preparations patent medicines and perfumery and cosmetics of tile tho three tho last classification perfumery and cosmetics called the weapons of tile tho flapper Is the only one which shows an increase tile tho value of the perfumery and cosmetics produced in 1021 amounted to according to tile tho official ng hg pres compared with la in 1010 1919 tho the last census period for manufacturing fae fac turing statistics this la hs an all increase of 22 per cent in 1014 1914 perfumery and cosmetics output was only thus from 1014 to 1021 tho the percentage porcen tago increase in tills this decora tivo alvo business reached tho the astounding figure of those figures relate only to the american mado made products it tile the imported perfumes were ro added many more millions would bo be accounted counted nc for out of our Vo population on there aro are about women of an ago age likely to employ the beautifying or re juvena ting agencies of perfumes and cosmetics this means that vach each on one 0 of these women spends about 3 a year on such products jn in 1014 there were only factories bakli making ng perfumes and cosmetics in 1021 1921 it took such buell establishments to fill tile ho requirements in 1014 the industry e employed I 1 only y 5 while in 1021 there were persona engaged the figures show that the value of druggists preparations in s was in 1010 while in 1021 1921 it was down to this might be explained byn by a statement that tho the people were buying patent medicines more generally but apparently tills this explanation does not hold for patent medicines show a 17 per cent drop from 1010 tp 1021 |