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Show oo - Olga Feirova ! Talks to Women i Olga Petrova, screen actress and vaudeville star, is inclined to blame the public, women especially, for the uign cost oi nviug. "Men and women (some of them) have more money now than they ever had before." .he says. "It has become unfashionable to add up a check in the restaurant; unfashionable to say 'How much?" before you buy; unfashionable to ask the rates at a hotel before you register. That is all wrong. It is not the people who have the money" always al-ways or who do have good common sense who do .these, it is the to-be-pitied people who, for the first time in their lives, have plenty of money and do not know how to spend it." "I wish 1 could form a 'cotton league among women and make it. more fashionable fash-ionable to wear cotton stockings than silk; to wear the sturdy durable material mater-ial like percale or gingham than the flimsy voile or crepe; to refuse to be gouged. "I have enough money today to retire re-tire for the rest of my life If I wish I do not say it boastlngly, I merely am stating a fact. 1 always have been a 4 gool business woman; I havo lived within reason; I have worked hard; I am intensely practical, r could afford af-ford a suite of rooms at tho hotel if I wished. Instead, because they have put up the prices so outrageously, T havo one room. I do not cany a retinue re-tinue t help with me; I havo my maid, my secretary, my business manager. I do not conform to every whim and caprice ca-price of fashion and, 1$ mo tell you thc fashions are artificially stimulated by men and women, who do not want women lo dress sensibly. I have done as all women should do, found my tvpe and what suits it and I hold, to that-I that-I would not wear ultrafashionable clothes because they ' are not pretty and are not suited to me. Oh, if all women would just be sensible the prices would have to come down." |