Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-08-12
The Extravagant Economy of Women.

ITO spend money in just proportion to
ones income, however small, and not 10
enand too little-for there is such thing
requires higher degree of intelligence
than the aimless and the inexperienced
possess. and Il woman who earns money
las a keener, juster knowledge of it's
value than the woman who gets from
tlle masculine head of the family"
writes Mrs. John Lane. an American
residing in London, in a recent article in
the Westminster Review.
is it not the extravaganza of sure
economy that takes the woman to the
sales where they buy all the things
they do not want? Would there be sales
days if there were only men in the
w0rld% Did you ever see a man go from
one shop to the other to get a necktie
tuppence cheaper? To be penny wise
is, indeed the supreme attribute of
women. For the economical one it is
terrible ordeal to go shopping with a
father or brother. If you like it. take
it, but don't waste peoples time, says
the irate man, as if there weren't innu-
merable steps to be taken after the ini-
tial process of liking.
1T is not also Il part of our eXtrava-
CANT economy that makes women eat
such queer things when they are by their
lonely selves? What self-respecting man
would lunch off Il sultana cake. tart or
an ice? Show me the self-respecting
woman who has not done it, Women
know how to cook-some of them--but
none of them know how to eat \ wom-
an feels that to eat we'll and Substan-
TALLY is sheer waste-there is nothing
to show for il. but she would not hest
tate a moment to spend even more i'll
something that she can show A man
fNtJ oh l,a,v.
ping good dinner and bottle of extra
good wine; lie thinks it is money well
spent, but he will be hanged before he
would buy himself an ornamental waist
coast and sCstain life on a penny bun.
What awful things we should eat if it
were not for men. | am sure table
d'hote dinners were invented by some
phllanthropist to save women. i cannot
eat Ia carte, said a friend of mine in Il
piteous burst of confidence, it's just like
eating money. So when her husband
travels with her he always leads her to
the table d'hote if only TO preserve her
from starvation When she is resigned
to the cost, she has an excellent appetite.
| really think if it were not Tor men
women would wrap themselves in sable
and point lace and starve to DEATH
There is a certain intellectual town
where tramcarS still issue return tickets
at reduced rates. How well | remember
two dear maiden ladies, armed with
principles, walking up and down in the
snow and sleet of a winters night one
whole hour waiting for the particular
tram which would accept their tickets.
They let unnumbered other trans jingle
merrIly past. while they padded about in
the Sush strong in their sense of ecOnO-
my. They each saved three ha pence,
ana one nearly died of pneumonia
wonder how many of us die be-
Af o,l-l 4
not forever doing things for which we
nave neither the strength nor the capaci-
". Just to save n few pennies. and do
not many of us repent all our life long!
well remember Il lady who to save
hlFlng man lifted her piano to slip a
rug under. When | saw her she had i'll
consequence been a helpless invalid for
years with an incurable spine complaint.
Are not cheap servants another favor
lie female economy ! have seen a sem
Slble woman rejoice because she had
captured cheap servant as if. what
with aggravatiOn of spirits and broken
crockery, Il cheap servant does not tn Ike
II out OF one i'll nervous prOstration. Not
10 mention that the incompetent eat just
is much as the competent.
How we all do love to save the spig-
get, even if it does pour out Mt the
huhghole. Who of US has not seen a
woman grow thin and sharp and old in
The struggle to save pennies while her
open-handed husband throws away
pounds: 1t takes big. broad-minded
woman to know when to opev her purse
NIflnSs, and perhaps bigger and
stronger one to keep them always com
IoHably ajar. At what early age can
The girl child be taught that what is too
cheap is usually very dear: The ma
yofItE OF women never learn it, How
many woman goes out to buy warm
WOODEN frock and returns home with a
pp-chlifoned tissue-paper silk. because it
was cheap and looked so smart" That
I."Stly temporary smartness which is a
hlia OF Whited sepulcher. | think there
Is no doubt that the English women
ana ! include the Americans-are the
I,'S' eXtravagant in the world. A
'''Ach woman once expressed her
""azement to me at the enormous
"."ouht OF money English women spend
1i what is as useless as froth. Chiffon
= we oane of the English woman; she
Tr,apeS herself in cheap chiffons. while a
.ehch woman puts her money in a bit
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