The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-08-30

tosts we need not be ashamed OF any
form of spartan economy. We can ps
tight handed and rigorous with our
nickels and dimes without beng open
70 the charge of stinglness-proviaeu
we use the, money for government
needs We can shine our own SHOES
for n tenth of this hundred million doi
lars There are I'm New York number
of men who have grows very weaith!
from the shoe-shining business. Among
them are some large tenement owners
one reputed to be worth millions.
There are more than fifty thousahu
bootblack places In the United states
some of them employing dozen OF
more men. The majority of these
bootblacks are within the fighting age
at least they ought to be doing some
sort of war service, instead OF SHINING
shoes-while American blood runs SO
freely on the other side.
Women Big Masters.
| But when IT comes to this kind OF
| self-pampering women spend far more
|
one large department store give some
| Interesting sideights on possible eco
! Monies. It's sales Of toilet goods last
| year ran about ID per cent of It's total
sales Thus for every million dollars
in sales its customers buy $4,000
worth of toilet articles. Apply this
| rate to all the stores In the United
States and you have total Of unnum-
bered millions. The term toilet goods
IL very elastic, including both neces-
sary and unnecessary articles, but the
conscientious war saver no doubt
would class one-third of these items as
partly dspensable, such as perfumery,
certain soaps, powders. rouge, toilet
waters. so-called beauty compounds
and the like.
Americas women are highly scent
ed. We live In an atmosphere redol-
ent with ambrosla. From almost every
woman one passes on the parade
streets of the cities there comes an
aura Of roses. or perhaps viOlets. Our
girls demand scents, In infinite variety.
not only in perfumery itself, but in
hundreds of products. Merely to graft
fy our sense of olfactory luxury we
spend tens of millions of dollars an
nually. Yet in France the husbands
brothers and sweethearts of our WON
en- and girls are sweating and fighting
in noisome places amid the stencil OF
disease and death. The odOrs they get
| nc nd 4
we can spare some Of our perfumer,
money In the cause for which we sem
, them abroad.
| II Ii were possible to estimate the
r money spent by women in New YOrl
alone for hairdressing and beauty cul
, ture it would undoubtedly run into thu
I tens of millions. One hairdresser II
: the metropolitan district states tina
: within eighteen months, or since Amer
:. lea entered the war. he has built up
( business that nets him seven hundre,
dollars n month.
Z A woman proprietor of so-calle,
( beauty establishment says that fit
: customers bring her revenue Of $50
!. 600 a year. that she realized n clea
9 profit of $4,000 on powders, cream
!. and perfumes, that she sold sets O
Y cosmetics at seven hundred dollar
each. Thousands of women pay fame
+: fees for hair waving. tinting an
n bleaching. One concern announce
10 twelve colors ranging from black I
- golden blonde. Much money also goe
for removal of freckles. wrinkles trea
ment. face bleaching and so on. TIL
:, manicure bin In New York is emo
- nous. and the chiropody outgo larg
= These places are furnished in the u
:, most luxury. II only we could in
IN press on women OF this class the drea,
!, full hardships our American youths al
n. undergoing in the great cause
II The lesson ought to sink home to a
V. women In America. who In greater
q. lesser degree. let their good money {
IN for such futile vanities.
ne II Is estimated that Il million me
1t and women throughout the country a
n giving to the Turkish baths an ave
ut age of dollar a day. Thus we In,
to a total of $685.. 200, 900 a year. To IN
In we can add perhaps half as much 4
he massage, attendant fees. special tire,
ry ment and incidentals.
or Bathing is commended. but most
US, at least those who have the Tur
es ish bath habit. can take our ablutio
- NJ home. The soldiers in Europe do,
'e> have Turkish baths. We imagine ,
he need them here, We eat big Dime
m. and fiji ourselves with rheumatic {
a nosits. poison ourselves by gormand
lc; ing. We contract colds because a
as systems are too badly clogged to thr,
sc; OIL the 9 rms. II Is when we are 81,
ln- Ted with rich viands and all sorts
he Injuries that we turn to the vur;;i
icy bath for relief. Why not disciple
ourselves during the war and traust
md all these millions of dollars into 7
l. A Al.