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Show EAST SIDERS DFM.Y. HALT WILD SPENDING I illusions That Came With War Die Out and Folk Settle Down N. E. A. Staff Corrccpondent. I NEW YORK, July l'.i. Slowly, sad-hy. sad-hy. but surely. Nov.- York's East Side ! Is beginning to awaken to the fact that no real prosperity has come as (the result of high wages. The high coat of living, the mad tendency ten-dency of even the thrifty East Siders to spend easily earned money for extravagant ex-travagant clothes and pleasures, and' the already felt pinch of the slowing down In domestic trade oidors have I nil combined to bring lo a halt the short-lived belief of these sweat shop ! workers that this was their "day.'' 'and thut the world wur. about to luy Us wealth at their feet. II l THEIR PU i K "Waged are high." they have argued v.ith themselves. "They can't go down. We will have our flyer and then settle down." I They have had their flyer. They i have worn silk shirts, fur coats, and 'much finery. But now the silk shuts and fur coals are nearly worn out, wages are no higher than they were a year ago and the cost of living, if anything, has gone up. The East Side of today is not np- preclably any different than it was !t'i years ago. Much cosily fnod is displayed, but malnutrition cases me just as man at the clinics. High 'iints are being paid but housing conditions. con-ditions. If anything, are worse. Factory girls are dressed ln si Iks land stevedores In tailor-made garments gar-ments but there Is Just as much tilth ever in the streets. S l s DROP l I . "No," said n Canal street shopkeeper shopkeep-er to mo. 'Thej do not buy so well now They shak their heads when 1 show them tho silk dre.s marked down to 124.98 that last summer they did not think good enough. "Yes. I urn getting high prices," said T.-nth avenue curb fru't dealer. "Km 1 sell so little I do not make enough to live on." And so it appears that New York's East Side Is about to settle down to .some real saving, and forget tho illu-Islons illu-Islons that i-amc with the flood of work !nnd hich wags during the war ami after the armistice. |