New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-19
POLLY, THE TARIFF GIRL!
Weeks Pay, Madam, Buys All
Mrs. Protection Wears.
AND SHE'S WELL DRESSED
Alien by Birth, but Patriotic
American Externally--Seen
at Wage Dollar Show.

Mrs Polly Protection arrived in taxi
cab at the Republican National head
quarters. In the Times Building, yester-
day, and was received with open arms.
For Mrs. Polly has a mission. noble
mission, in this campaign. II is to prove
that a man earning an average salary
S25 a week-can, under the protective
tariff, At his wife out In nice American
made fall costume with one weeks wages.
And not her gown alone, mind you, but
hat, gloves, shoes, lingerie, corsets ana
stockings.
n you don't believe Il go TO the Re-
publican wage-dollar exhibit, at No. Al
Union Square, where from this afternoon
until Election Day Mrs Polly Protection
will hold court, and yourself see and ex-
anime her blue lansdowne gown, sheer
white blouse, black velvet hat and her
er-lace- trimmed lingerie.
The materials Of all these, and the
pumps and shoes, can be purchased IN
side s25. Miss Mary c. Frances, up in the
woman's department Of the Republican
National Committee, says SO, ana she
knows, for she bought that Polly doll ana
bought and oversaw the making OF every
stitch she wears.
When Miss Frances proudly presented
Mrs. Protection to the first batch OF VS.
itors who went 10 see her at Republican
headquarters yesterday Polly was pct
ure There she stood on a pedestal made
of three tariff reports and paper weight
her gown falling In modish folds, her
hat set alrlly upon her abundant blond
hair, a winning smile upon her waxen
face, and q cigarette between her SloVed
fingers.
Victim of a Joker.
II is only fair to state that the clga-
retts was not placed there by MISS
Frances. II was a mean Joke on the part
OF some male on the Office force, and
whom Miss Frances saw It she delivered
kcture TO the males OF that force that
would have done credit 70 MISS Lucy
Castor, head OF the Anu-C1garette
League.
When Miss Frances had recovered her
euuanlmity she gave talk on Mrs. Pony
Protectors costume. telling what thc
things cost, and how everything, except
the kidskln her gloves were made OF, was
produced in America.
"Er-and was the doll herself produced
I'm America? She looks to me like Ger
man make" chirped & reporter on the
edge OF the group.
The Protective Tariff Dolls godmother
gasped.
Good gracious I never thought.
guess she Is imported" she murmured in
shamed accents what will those awful
free traders down al the Democratic
Chamber Of Tariff Horrors think OF me
when they hear that
So thore is Mrs. Polly Protection, an
immigrant, and no ore knows whether she
has been naturallzed even. or whether
when women get the ballot she could vote
But Miss Frances says It's all the more
credit to her, IL shes foreign born, to
dress IN American clothes.
Lowell Headed Lady.
she shows great sense" Miss Frances
said. I'm having hor gown OF lansdoWne'
for II ls a most satisfactory material, ana
costs only .I25 yard. They make
Quantities of 1t over In Pennsylvania.
suppose those Democrats will be saying
IT'S silk, but II isn't. It's lansdowne, and
50 wide that Ave yards is ample to make
gown for a good sized woman Her
pumps, made OF leather raised In America,
cost So so, and her hat--well now, l
won't put a price on the hat FOR you
could buy one like II all the way from 81
I'd 10 $50 according TO the shop you
patronized.
Her underwear"--Miss Frances raised
Mrs. Polly's skirt cautlously-"well.
combination like that can be bought for
g. And--well, you know--for even less.
Her corsets--well, women do pay such
different prices for corsets. won't put
any price on those Her gloves are 81,
a trife more, perhaps, than gloves OF the
same quality cost In Paris, but then Amer
lean gloves are better fitting, better look
ing and wear better than gloves Of foreign
make"
ooh no." protested a chorus Of voices,
but Miss Frances hurried on.
Doesn't this prove" she demanded.
that Taft ought 10 be re-electedn Can
you conceive how any woman could look
at this costume. hear that II can be dupN-
Gated for S25 and not 30 home Immediate
" and tell her husband TO vote for Mr..
Taft7
Especially" said Miss Frances as an
anti-climax, when YOU consider that those
silk stockings on that doll cost only 80
cents"
And Mrs Polly Protection looked coyly
down upon the Taft button pinned on her
Lea "A "a yuax