Show national affairs by FRANK P LITSCHERT professor boyle ol of cornell university stated the other day that the desire ot of the modem woman to become slender blender has altered marketing standards ot of long standing has cut the consumption ol of bread twenty per cent and consider considerably abi y affected tho the wheat sales bales of the world all of which goes to show how bow much damo dame fashion has to do with modern modem econom lo conditions there Is much truth in what professor boyle has to say the modern modem woman desires a slender figure beyond almost anything else and she wants wanta it as long as she lives she no longer desires to settle down at forty or forty five and await the coming 0 ol 01 01 old age with philosophical resignation t 0 As a result alt she lunches on lettuce OV bedded J leaves and shredded fruit instead of pork chops white bread and potatoes but it will not do to blame it all on to the ladles ladies the modern modem man too luces likes to keep his waistline under control and he bo Is fast getting the a salad alad habit he no longer desires to settle down at fifty grow s a beard and watch hla his increasing years and add growing belt line 0 W V As a result the sola sale of bread and potatoes falls oft off and the farmers suffer buffer dame fashion Is at fault because no matter what they may tell you most of these reducing men and women are not in search of better health but ot of more graceful lines line 40 ap 4 40 therefore There torB it may be said that fashion has hag a great deal to do with changing econom economic lo conditions and if want to help the farmers why not get dame fashion to bring corn com fed girls and shaggy middle aged men with protruding waist waistlines lines back into fashion again S 01 40 then there are tho the cotton and woolen industries in the good old days when dresses swept the floor and a womans comans wealth wile wag estimated by the number of her petticoats when sleeves sleeve were long and voluminous those were good times indeed for the textile manufacturers and it if we want to help them let us take the me matter ater up with dame fashion 0 O Q 40 ap every older person remembers what happened to the carriage and harness business when the automobiles became common well dame fashion has been fooling with other industries although we WB dont realize it so BO much strap watches put a crimp in manufacturers of watch chains after the safety razor had nearly put the barbers out of business damo dame fashion decreed bobbed hair tor for women and saved the tonsorial lal artists although this was hard on the manufacturers of feminine hair ornaments now if long hair comes back tor for women and the men start growing whiskers once more there will bo be further econom economic lo changes think wh what t the return to of whiskers would mean to the pottery business which Is now in the doldrums every man will want a moustache cu cup p and some of them will even get two or three at christmas from loving aunts and nephews the tha possibilities in the pranks of dame fashion are boundless so if there la Is something the mutter matter with your business just check up on dame fashion and then double check her you are liable to find that the fickle old girl Is at the bottom of at least a part of your troubles things are not what they used to be and at times we doubt seriously whet lter they ever were |