The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-04-05

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but tney cost more the Natei
didA used . cost our family cent
Now Il costs Us $40 70 $50 a year.
The Luxures OF Shaving
Take such minor matter as
shaving | still shave myself, but
use a modern safety razor. The
blades are a constant source OF eN-
pense My father kept his razor IN
condition without any expense He
used the family soap for la her. J
use a powder that smells good and
costs twenty-five cents a can lie
never used witch hazel or talcum
after shaving ! have succumbed to
the advertising and use both My
mother used 10 cut my hair around
a bowl that she put over my head
and she used to wash 1t out for me
My sons hair Is cut by bai ber who
gives him shampoo
The Kid has a bicycle and a wag-
on and cart that's propelled by
pushing and pulling on a bar. None
of those things came along in my
day, except thai once in a while a
boy had velocipede II ! wanted
wagon | made oue-sawed out the
wheels or dug up an old baby ar
riage
Which suggests another thiuS
Part Of this high COST Of living is
due to the fact that we have struck
for the eight hour day al homo as
wen as everywhere else, Every man
used to expect TO spend good deal
Of his spare time tinkefmg around
/ the house Now We hire the tlnhet
ing done II we wanted a door bell
father Installed il himself Tie and
We kids sawed and split the wood
and carried II In. When the house
needed painting father and the boys
/ did The job at odd times Any
( number Of families in towns put up
heir own ham and had their own
eggs, and kept COW. Even when
we got our milk from neighbor |
went after It every evening There
was no expense for delivery.
Carried the Groceries Home.
The expense Of delivery must be
an important item in the modern
cost OF living | don't believe there
was delivery wagon In The town
where | was brought up We always
expected to go 70 The store and buy
our groceries and carry them home,
Groceries didn't come in fancy pack.
ages then We ate oatmeal lnstead
of prepared breakfast food
When we kids played baseball we
made The bah By winding string
around a piece Of an old rubber. The
bat we shared down from a piece
OF cord wood Now a boy has 10
buy bats and balls, and masks and
mltts. and shoes and a uniform We
had a melodeon IN the parlor Now
YOU must have an inside piano play
er Lots Of people are skimping on
the meals TO buy Caruso records for
their talking machine, which hadn't
been invented forty years ago Coal
oil lamps or tallow dips were good
enough o generation ago. Now we
have electric lights And tele-
phones-why, my negro washer
family Is complete without Its cam
era to take srapshot Of the baby
abou' three times week copies 70
be given at eight cents apiece TO all
the friends
Il noticed that one agency sold
$i00,Od0 worth Of motor ears in Kan
sas city territory In March The
millions OF dollars invested in cars
every year Is withdrawn from pro
due i've industry See how The not
lists shops have multiplied. There
were mighty few of them twenty
years ago. Now ! suppose Kansas
City spends thousands of dollars {
week on flowers And magazines
LOOK i'm the windows Of The news
stands and estimate the amount 0
money spent on them When ! wa,
boy we used 10 go in with a neigh
Dor and subscribe for Scribnora
That was all we had Wo neve
thought OF taking daily newspaper
When We rode on the train we sa
up all night, and we carried har
boiled eggs and cake IN Il paste
board box. Now we sleep in IN
Pullman and eat table d'hotc diT
ner In the dining car which Is il
ished In costly woods aud decorate
with flowers
conycnienoes Are Costly.
My point is this: We are consun
ing a lot Of what used 10 be coDsil
cred Injuries So We are destro
ing capital that otherwise would {
into productive industries, II v
weren't buying flowers, for instanc
the florist would be raising potatoes
So We are keeping a lot Of men
work on the Injuries who wou
have been raising things 70 eat
genersion ago The consequence
tha we raise less food and what
raised has 70 support more persons
pfopordonately. Of course-than WI
the case when We wese Youngsters
What you going to do about it'
INQUIRED Iorkins. Have It's go bae
70 he simple life o. our bsrefc'
days?'
Nope" McTwlnls reioried "N
can never 10 back We like n
cOnyeBiences too we'll But WEI
got to make up our minds 10 pay Il
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