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Show THE EXTRAVAGANCE OF WOMEN London Journal Champions the Cause of the Fair Sex. In nil sections of society one hears married men, nnd Indeed others, grumbling considerably at tho extravagance ex-travagance of their womcnklnd In dross. In Individual cases they may havo tho light to grumblo: but on pilnclplo, and hi general, I do not sco that they have any genuine grounds for complaint, because If women are now extra; ugnnt In dress It must bo romembered thnt lor generations men havo been extravagant In other and worse forms of self-indulgence. nd, nfter all, man can tnko comfort to his soul In the knowledge that It Is chiefly, with a view to pleasing lilm that woman Indulges In follies of thin sort, added to which he should count It n:i a gain that this particular form of extravagance adds to the general cheerfulness and gnlety of life. London Lon-don World. |