The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-09-22

ing, or who cares to give up one Of the
luxuries which you Americans conslde
so necessary to life.
| "a foreigner Is struck by this at once
You see we are not yet used to Ameri.
can ideas OF living"
Mrs Molliner is visiting friends who
live in one OF the big beehive apartment,
houses that boast a marble entrance
several hallboys and laurels and palms
| in the halls Her home Just outside ot
I London, photographs Of which she showed
me- is a moderately large house with @
| garden, which she Is renting this win
moderate sum, less than half what the
apartment costs.
! Let US take the rent, first OF all.
| said Mrs. Molllner, IN a busiRessike way.
than they used to be. should think
they would be higher still. Look at wha /
you are getting. The d-fashioned ed apart
ment house had no elevators no open
anyhow, no marble halls. no elevator
boys. no telephone girls.
with us In England the individual
bathroom is still great luxury. though
We are supposed to be the ''tubbles{"
people In the world. Even In the model
tenements I have seen here In America
the bathroom, with modern plumbing, Is
accepted as a matter OF course.
People in America seem 10 telephone
all tho time Women must spend hours
al the telephone. Naturally. that is a
yet nobody is willing to give it up
FOR the most part, I have found both
houses, hotels. churches and places Of
amusement very much overheated In
rigorous as an American one. but we
all OF US expcct to shiver over top flre-
places, and particularly In the evening.
we English women would be thankful
fr,. Ia cf fhof A N1l iNan -t6 Moot
that you have too much Of. and for which
you naturally have to pay.
II am sure that " a great movement
was started TO abolish the luxuries which
become necessary to us all, and which
have SO raised the standard OF living,
everyone would protest on the ground
that these so-called luxuries make for
ness and comfort; but. Undoubtedly. II
such a movement could be started the
cost of living would DE lower. but no
one wants to go backward. and II would
pe retrograding
"In the last ten years or more. women.
FOR instance have learned. a great deal
about sanitation in, the home; we have
nous sehold: we have learned thousand
and one things which help to maintain
the health of the family. but which cost
money and add to the high cost OF liv-
I'm London for the most part, the
butcher exposes his meat outside Of his
shop. where 1t is at the mercy of every
germ that Is flying about, and unpro-
tected from the dust and dirt OF the
street. Meat Is somewhat cheaper The
grocers are. almost as careless. I am
say I am delighted. TO be able to get so
many Of the necessities OF life done UP
in clean packages straight from the fac
tory. and to lsnow that they have not
been handled by anyone else.
II am willing to pay for this cIeanli
ness, though I am sure II I bought bis
cults by the pound out Of a big fin, into
which everybody's hand went, 7 might
get them little cheaper,
"I am afraid I am not we'll enough
up on economic conditions TO know why
| tell you the things that strike me as q
| foreigner, and which must add to the
! extravaganza OF life,
| "At home in England we have we'll de-
| fined classes and there Is not that per-
petual struggle to appear higher In the
social scale than you really arc. except
among very small sections OF society
| part OF the independent American spir-
| II shows itself In everyone'ss wanting 10
look and live as well as anyone else.
| splendid spirit for IL is always striving
| and pushing upward II is the divine
discomfort from which great things
grow.
But In the meantime, II adds to the
cost of living Of the dscontented striver
especially II OF the feminine sex. She
| must nave clOfneS as EnhG, ~ not better,
| than those worn by the girl who WAS
| born with a golden spoon In her mouth
| she must indulge In all the fads OF the
moment no matter how costly they are
| Just to show that she Is as good as the
| other.
II am told that even among school
| children this rivalry Is terrific. And
| that II sets the Young people on The high
| road which leads TO extravaganza and
| which adds yearly 10 The cost Of living
| Fortunately, the desire for luxury brings
much good In rs wake; IL sets higher
| sta nda rtis OF health, comfort. cleanliness,
education and refinement. except where
II is perverted aud Is merely an outlet
for reckless expenditure
But YOU win never sc-ye the prob
lem OF reducing the high cost OF living
until YOU lower the standards OF com
Sfort. and I doubt lf any American woman
will submit to that"