The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1919-04-25

81 tax on it. You see, any trunk over
$50 is a luxury.
"Next we bought stockings, petit
coats and waists, n%ightgowns and un-
derwear, and l found that every time
you paid more than 81 a pair for
stockings, or So if they were silk, you
had to pay a 10 per cent tax on the
excess; petticoats and waists you paid
a tax on when they cost more than
SIS each, and on nightgowns and UNI
derkear you paid the tax on each ar
ticle that cost over SIS.
Wife Looked Around" Too.
"My wife is patriotic and l think
she looked around to find things which
went over the prices allowed free of
tax She was pretty successful, too.
"We worked our way round to the
dress department next, and my wife
looked over a lot of female hand-me-
downs. Every one Of them ran into
money and l was feeling 'jumpy' again
about the tax. She picked out a
couple for herself and some more for
the little girl.
What's the taxi I asked the
clerk. | wanted to beat him to it.
"No tax he said. There's no tax
dresses for women and girls, nor
any tax on suits for men and boys
"What do you know about that,
friends? Here was l thinking | was
getting the hang of these taxes and
l run up against this proposition. You
can buy a $50 dress suit without tax,
but you can't buy a s12 pair of shoes
without paying your 10 per cent. Those
congressman who framed the taxes
don't know the difference between a
and a necessity. l don't be-
lieve they know the difference be-
tween a hydraulic ram and a papal
bull.
High Cost of Sundaes.
after he had rounded up the
the family needed every one
was feeling better except me. There
was a soda fountain nearby, and l
ed the family in. We ordered ice
cream sundaes all around. In this
place the price of a sundae is Is cents.
When l got the check it read 6S cents.
Waiter l said, how do you fig
ire s cents?'
cts like this, SIR he said, there's
war tax beginning today on all So
la water, sundaes-1 cents for each
o cents or part of 10 cents the drink
"We were passing a drug store when
ny wife said there were some things
he must get. In we went, and | learn
d that for every 25 cents l paid for
perfumes, toilet waters, tooth paste,
'tc., that l purchased l had to pay 1
'ent extra as a tax. There were some
ills. powders and other patent med
cines my wife wanted to take with
Ter, and on those | paid a tax of l
ent for each 25 cents of the price,
.lso.
"We picked up some kodak films,
andy and chewing gum as we were
ding along, and l found that the price
f all of them had gone up, and the
Jerk told me it was due to the war
AK on them. These taxes, he said,
he manufacturer pays, so it is passed
long to the consumer, and you bet
he consumer pays twice that tax
When he gets that article.
"The boy and girl wanted some
ennis rackets and these were up, too,
Of the manufacturers tax
Trials of the Smoker.
about that time l sent my family
.ome and turned into my favorite to-
store to pick up a few smokes
nd blame me is they hadn't added
n a few cents to the price-war tax.
"Then | went to the club to pay
ny dues. ! had a feeling they were
bout to spring something new on me,
ut l found all | had to pay was the
anne old 10 per cent tax which | had
zen paying for more than a year.
Tonight we all went to the NOV
es and the tax was just the same as
yesterday, and then l came on down
o the union station to buy the tick
is for the family to go away, and on
he Pullman seats it was only 8 per
ent instead of 10 per cent"
The Common Citizen stopped his
low of talk and took notice of the
act that he had reached his destina-
ion.