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Show WOMEN BLAMED FOR EVERYTHING Editor Standard: "It Is quite amusing amus-ing to read your department and note in the discussion of the high cost of living that woman figures as the principal prin-cipal cause. That she Is deficient and careless and extravagant in many, many cases 1 want to admit, but I do want to enter a protest In this wholesale laying at her door the high cost of living. j "Since tho department started and I before I have glen it a good deal I of thought and have quietly as best I I could looked into It among my own friends, who are common, overjday I people and might go as the average ! family. That woman makes mistakes i is time, but as a rule I find her a I moro economical spender than ' her I husband He never dreams of the I economics she practices. He must be a good fellow at his club and also 'his lodge. Thcso organizations are forcvor reaching Into his pocketbook Beside the dues and advancement fees, which make no small Item, there Is always something In the wind to tax him a llttlo more. He must not say no' ho would lose ca6te. "Tobacco Is no small Item and all these -organizations cultivate expensive expen-sive habits. Most of their quarters are furnished better than the men's homes are. So, by the time the pocketbook pock-etbook roaches home there Is need of rigid economy to make it go around. Each member of the family must share the economics. A R. S." |