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Show oo Luxury Prices Hit i Toboggan in England LONDON, Aug. 14. Slump prices In all luxury goods have hit Kngland F.erythlng from motor cars to manicure sets are skidding on the price toboggan. Six months aRo premiums of from $100 to $5,000 were being paid simply for someone else's chance to buy a j motor car. Today they are being offered of-fered at less than list prices. Women s finery also has struck an , economy wave on the part of tho gent- ler sex. and Jewelry , musical Instruments, Instru-ments, fine furniture and other expensive expen-sive commodities are In the doldrums. John Bull is watching his private ! purse with the eye of a Scot. Kxtravugunt governmental spending : such oh $250,000,000 recently In Rus-! Rus-! sia without permission ef the people, continues Taxes remain hlrch. Rents are going up Food Is not coming down. Fruits are icSTCS, The average Englishman ll lessening his own personal per-sonal expenses from sheer necessity for the Income tax man is waiting with a bucket. "Wc aro waiting for still lower prices of all things we can manage to set along without." says the public. Everywhere ligni ff less extravagant extrava-gant expenditure by the average man is to be noted. |