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Show l 00 ARE WAGE EARNING GIRLS EXTRAVAGANT? Mrs. Grace G. Bartlett, assistant di-rector di-rector of the savings division of the ! United States treasury department, says the young women workers who saved their money during the war are .now undergoing a period of reaction anil are spending their money right and left. She says these young women 'who have been earning salaries averaging aver-aging ?ioOO a year are buying more 'S250 coats, $150 dresses and ?40 hate han the wives of wealthy men. ; Mrs. Bartlett declares the wealthy ! women are now the most economical buyers in Ihe United Siatos. The Women's Trade Union league recently took up the question of extravagant ex-travagant dress buying by young women' wage earners and came to the conclusion that the girl who works for wages is entitled to wear just as good Iclothes as the wife of a millionaire jsnd that the working girl has a right :to spend all the money she wants foe pretty things to wear. Mrs. Bartlett says she agrees with ihe league. She says the girl on a 1500 salary has as much right to pret-ly pret-ly silk things as the wife of a million-'aivc. million-'aivc. She has as much right as tho rich woman to show her beauty in a 'fur coat. But Mrs. Bartlett says she thinks the salaried girl should study to pet the most for her money and to give thought to the things she is doing without in order to buy the pretty and expensive things she craVes. Mrs. Eartlett suggests that the young women write their salaries jtiown on a slip of paper as they start Jto buy and then to figure how much they can afford for luxuries after they (have bought the essentials. "When j they do buy, I want them to buy the very best," Mrs. Bartlett says. She declares most young women buy without with-out thought of how a garment will wear. She urges establishment of iHcvice bureaus in stores whore patrons pa-trons may learn. Just what good quality qual-ity is. ' :c ' "' ' : ,: " oo |