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New-York tribune., 1919-12-14
A Protracted Wooing in the Old
Style Leaves Nothing for
Housekeeping Expenses

each, Mr.. Taylor said, other excur-
sion rates having advanced proper
tionately.
The young man in love has other
expenses which are spared the fancy
free. On those nights when the
youth calls on her he usually wends
his way from barber shop, smell
ing like hair tonic and other costly
things. He did the same thing in
1909. He did it more cheaply then
by far. His shave cost him Is cents
in most places and 10 cents in
others. A shave retails now at rs
cents in most places and 80 cents in
some.
Haircuts were 20 cents, or at most
IS cents. They stand so cents at
present. Shampoos, singes, mas
sages and the other costly annoy
ances which are undergone for cher"
have advanced in cost about 100
New-York tribune., 1919-12-14
Eren Scenery Isn't Free

With the evenings entertainment
gone to where only the wealthy car
go, and with diamonds and gift:
fleeing fast from the reach Of
youth, it might be thought that the
cost of mingling with the Great Out.
doors has at least remained calm
while all other costs have grown
excited.
There are no very impressive
stretches of outdoors near the city.
Lovers regard all others as inter-
lopers, and there are more inter-
lopers to the square mile in New
York than any other place in the
world. The railroad, however,
speeds gleefully to where love may
dwell in peace.
In 1909 this speeding would be
almost nominal in price if it we're
done on Sunday excursion trains.
Irving Taylor, of the traffic de-
partment of the New York Cen
tral, said that the price of q round
trip to West Point in 1909 was Sits.
or $3.50 for a couple. The journey
there and back to-day costs $3.50
New-York tribune., 1919-12-14
The Old Mems Forum

with few from Austria Hungary
and each Of the Polands. They tell
OF Russia of oppression, but some
how they do not seem to rejoice in
the new era which has made a weak
ling of their mammoth birthland.
They have no patience for local.
parlor or even professional Bolshe-
visits. Their discussions of radical
ism are less arguments than contests
TOR the expression of the strongest
condemnation. They regard it as
the product of harebrained youth. It
IS fungus, they say, living a para
site life in too many lands. The
youth who dares PROFOUND it in their
presence leaves quickly. He be-
comes the hub of a circle of shrillv
vituperative old men. An old man
angry is not pleasant sight. he
seems so helpless and venomous.
A few of them talk of wives thev
mad. Hyman Jampolsky, for in
stance, had three. They all scolded
ne has told the group many times.
Women seem born to scold, he al
ways says, and then adds that he is
glad he is "schnorrer" and hasn't
any money which might be attrac-
tive to some fine young girl who
doesn't like to work. He knows we'll
enough, he says repeatedly, that he
would be just weak enough to say
yes. He is seventy-four.
Moses Plotkin was president of q
school" twenty years ago, and he
speaks of the Talmud with author
ity. He is the highest court in
biblical discussion, although all of
those present know their Talmud
He gave an awful decision once
though. The grandson of one of his
friends had taken a watch from
dead German soldier in the Argonne.
near the end of the war. When the
unofficial senator's heard about it
they discussed the young mans ac-
ton and the Bibles commandments.
Some of them wanted to know
whether or not this was stealing, es-
pecially when done by young man
who knew his <Talmud and his COM
mandments.
Moses had stayed away for eight
weeks during the war, sitting
"shivah" for the eldest son of his
middle daughter. The boy had died
in the fighting
Moses didn't cogftate very long
on the question. He brushed aside
seventy-odd years of teaching and
training, and said that if the watch
had been left on the German il
would have rusted and wasted away.t
1t was more preservation than steal
ing to take it, Moses said.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-14

per cent. Shines were never more
than cents Now they are never
less than 10 cents. A boy with a
brush has been added to the ap-
pointments of most barber shops,
and his upkeep costs 5 cents a GUS
toner.
1t is a courageous lover who can
purchase his release from a bar
ber's chair for less than 50. One
dollar was the maximum tonsorial
ransom in. 1909.
"One would think you're married
from the way you bleat," the boss
told the young man at the begin
ming of this story. II don't see
how this high cost of things hits
you single fellows at all. Maybe it
does boost the price Of your board
and cuts down on your drinks, but
that's about ALL"
Show him this.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-14

dhoting costs SO a pair any night
at the present time.
If she wasn't hungry ten years
ago she could be regaled with wine
champagne, at $3.50 a bottle, the
-nrice for Pol Roger. Just before the
Volstead act, which made nominal
prohibition hereabouts a reality. p
bottle of Pol Roger retailed at s25.
Cocktail thirsts of young ladies
could be quenched in 15-cent install
ments. Sixty-five cents a cocktail
was moderate price just before
the great drought.
Although there is a sob in every,
line of the story of buying a way
for two through an evening, it is a
merry tale compared to the tragedy
of buying her silken things in those
AAANAAoAA0 OCAO4C z DIlc COIlScI1CS TO wear
the calico you may buy her for life.
After the youth has taken her
out several times he reaches the gift.
or package, stage. He seldom comes
out to her house without bearing
presents, even though he sports a
pre-war model overcoat.
A B. Altman advertisement in
The Tribune of December, 1909,
spoke glowingly of black thread silk
stockings at 81 a pair, with good
wearing cashmere stockings at so
cents.
The other day a conservative firm
quoted in an advertisement the radi-
cal figure of $3.50 for pair of silk
stockings. Under the figure was
lengthy statement giving reasons,
such as the buyers cleverness and
the large lot purchased, for the
modest price named. The firm ad
vertising, it would seem, didn't want
to show up it's competitors.
Stern's, in 1909, advertised kid
New-York tribune., 1919-12-14
.HERE isn't much to the future
Il of some of the boys who play
around Central Park at Fifth


Il of some of the boys who pla,
around Central Park at Fiftl
Avenue and 108th Street.
These boys have considerable past
though, some as much as eighty
tive years of it. There are some az
young as sixty, and sometimes 6
fiedgling of fifty-five might chip into
an especially exciting argument, but
the average runs around seventy.
They gather in the morning. when
Harlem's horde of workers is roll
Ing on to business. Their forum is
the wide path'which begins at Fifth
Avenue and 106th Street and swings
gracefully in an arc which termi-
mates at 10th Street, also on Fifth
Avenue. There are large, fairly
comfortable benches near the mouth
of the path, on which the old men
loll through warm days which would
be long if not for the constant ripple
of discussion.
Some of these men have made in
dependent fortunes. They are re-
tired. Others just stopped working
when their physical faculties quit
obeying. These ancient men have
many children, whose bringing up
prevented the establishment and
support of bank account. Their
children are doing the supporting
honors now. Only the hottest kind Of
argument can dispel the unhappy
expression on some of the faces.
brought there by frequent remind
ers from their children that they are
now riding free.
Fully third of the personnel is
recruited from the old folks home
on 105th Street, near Park Avenue.
1t seems some mornings as if all
the ambulant contents of the home
had rambled over for the discussion
on current events and those not SO
current. They gather in groups,
each undoing its own favorite
knotty questions. Occasionally
deadlock will send an entire group
to another circle for decision and
further discussion. An appeal is
taken, though, only for the want of
breath rather than for the want OF
more debatable premises. The
breaths Of these septua and octoge-
narians aren't what they used to be,
and torrents Of words leave empty
lungs, which require minutes for re-
filling.
These Smen are conservatives,
though they live in neighborhoods
which make Socialist candidates a
factor at elections. They are, most
Of than, from Russia and Rumania.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-14
Marriage in Haste the Only
I. Financial Salvation of the
Smitten Swain

bic ago have not altered in
the last ten years. They have long
ings for silk stockings, yearning,
for silk gloves, hankerings for ice
cream and candy, desires for flow.
ers, for theaters, for railroad ex.
cursions. But it is different with
these frivolous lures Of feminine
fancies. Their prices would scarcely
be recognized by the men who
haven't shopped for them in ten
years.
About the only adjunct to the per-
feet courtship that doesn't cost more
is walk in the park. The simple
little girls Of peripatetic tendencies
should be more popular than ever.
But at that there is limit to pedes-
trianism.
The rapid upward trend Of court
ing cost has won innumerable
adherents to the two-can-live-more
cheaply-than-one doctrine. It has un-
doubtedly curtailed courtships and
cut down the period of doubt. A long
wooing stretch would place the aver
age young man in such a desperate
financial bunker that he would never
reach the matrimonial green.
Long before a youth thinks Of
marriage he buys some girl ice
cream sodas. Sometimes he will
wear short trousers when he swings
into an ice cream parlor with a
pig-tailed but otherwise quite grand
lady on his arm.
Then and N0,o
In 1909, which is soon going to
be eleven years ago, the boy needed
10 cents for his little iced express
sion of affection. That bought, ac-
cording to the manager Of ]. M.
Horton & Co., dealers in ice cream
New-York tribune., 1919-12-14
7he only adjunct to the perfect courtship that doesn't
cost is ,Ualk in the park

taxing mile was 80 cents, but the
strides Of science in perfecting the
automobile have trimmed this dowr
to 40 cents a mile.
Courting at $6.25 an Hou,
Only Che wealthy young man may
say it with flowers to-day. At
the Florists Exchange of America
1870 Broadway, it was said that
corsage bouquets ranged from S1.5O
to 81 in price a decade ago. The
present day minimum, it was said
is So, while there is a rich maximum
of SIS for orchids. American Beauty
roses gave out their aristocratic
fragrance in 1909 for SIP a dozen.
Two dollars for a single American
Beauty might we'll deepen the blush
on that regal flowers cheek.
Fifteen cents each was a high
price for full, rotund chrysanthe-
NUNS in 1909. Honest dealers ask
so cents for lone yellow bloom
these days.
The average corsage, Mr.. McIn-
tyre said, costs Sc now, compared to
$1.25 when the dollar was itself. If
young man adds bunch of flowers
to his evenings wooing, the four
hours with her stand him slightly
more than $25. BY strict economy
he might save enough for carfare,
which is still the old price, s cents.
An engaged couple, saving for
their marriage, could dine ten years
ago at table d'hote, with wine and
women smokers, for 60 cents each,
or $3.50 for the two, including a
lavish tip. Without wine, table
New-York tribune., 1919-12-14
'Pid Handicapped by High Cost of Courting

generous depth Of carbonated water
and a satisfying portion Of ice
cream.
But now, to quote Mr.. Horizons
manager again, it's q case of going
up to mother or father, picking the
more liberal one, and asking her or
him for 93 cents or a. cents, depend
ing on the neighborhood. These 15-
cent or 20-cent sodas are concen-
trated in aesthetic shrinking glasses
or cone-shaped paraffin containers.
Only the boy who is a reckless
spendthrift can hope to tell Of his
love in the language of ice cream
sodas.
The candy presentation stage fol-
lows that typiaed by ice cream
sodas. John S. Huyler used to sell
in 1909, at all Of his stores, stand
ard and quite fancy brand of
chocolate and bonbons for 60 cents
a pound. 1t was either a rich
or madly> infatuated young man
who paid 80 cents for sweets
for her, and then he got box with
decorated scenes of bird life and
with silk ribbons.
There are q few brands of the
kind Of candy you can give her
which do not cost moro than 81
a pound at present. A half pound
box of Huyler's or Apollo or Page
& Shaw's candy may be obtained
for 60 cents. These candies cost 70
cents and more in the theaters dur
ing intermission.
Having attracted her with sodas
and cemented her affections with
candy, the youth usually asks her
parents if he may take her out.
Back in 1909 there was nothing
momentous about such a proposal.
Now the youth faces a Irritation
with high finance when he asks her
folks if he may take her off their
hands for the evening.
L. M. Grenaker, of Shuberts
theaters, and O. O. Mcintyre, Of the
Hotel Majestic, have watched the
counting cost trying for altitude for
years. They have seen young men
New-York tribune., 1919-12-14
gloves at $1.75 pair for her little

gloves at $1.75 pair for her little
hands. Her hands are no larger
now, but the kid gloves to protect
them range far into and beyond the
IS mark. The proximity of Christ
mas brings home the striking ad-
vance in the cost Of these things for
her, things which evoked the same
pleased gurgle when they were 81
as how, when they are 81.
Silk umbrellas sheltered her for
s1.98 the umbrella, according to a
Wanamaker quotation of 1909. A
firm, the head Of which has sons Of
courting age, wanted $3.50 a silk
shelter by actual count last week.
The charge Of taking a ladies' silk
umbrella will probably soon be
changed from petit to grand larceny.
The rise in the price of silk and
linen handkerchiefs is from 100 to
200 per cent, comparison of the
advertisements and interviews with
department store buyers revealed.
And the Ring!
The price of jewelry is undoubt-
edly the cause for the numerous
elopements. When a couple steals
away about the time most people are
preparing for four or five hours
more of sleep, it does not neces-
sarily mean that the marriage urge
came upon them suddenly. It usually
means that the first ring of his she
will wear will be plain gold band.
The engagement ring that cost
the prosperous lover $500 in 1909,
according to an official of one Of
the largest jewelry firms in the
country, now stands him $1,000 and
$1,000. He declared that war-made
prosperity has caused diamonds
virtually to disappear from the
market, with scores Of eager pro-
spective purchasers straining their
eyes for the sparkle of a diamond
for sale. The entire surplus supply
of the world has been absorbed, he
declared.
Russia, which fed the platinum
market, is no longer prolific. Plati-
mum has become rarity here, with
prices 300 per cent higher than they
were in 1909 The dull, whitish
metal will be worn almost exclu-
sively by stout, middle-aged women
with stout, middle-aged and success
full husbands this year, he pre-
dicted.
A demand for leather goods de-
fies the supply. A 200 per cent
advance in the price Of lady's
substantial leather pocketbook or
vanity satchel was spoken Of by
dealers, who added that the worst
was in the future.
That delicate mauve writing pa
per, which soon became so unmis-
takably part of her, cost in 1909
about 81 for a generous sized box.
Two of the largest firms dealing
in this paper will ask 81 for 1t of
the young men who expect to econo-
mize in their purchases this year.
Writing paper was always refuge
from high prices for gifts, but it's
cost no longer attracts.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-14
Pity the Lopelorn

The single man has no bureau to
turn to for official proof that the
candy he gives his girl twice or more
often each week is more valuable
by $50 per cent than it was decade
ago. No government agency will
come forward for him with testi-
mony concerning the aviation of
silk stocking prices. The high cost
OF loving properly gets little or no
publicity. This article, therefore, is
an adventure into uncharted seas.
Preferences Of the girls Of Iowa
New-York tribune., 1919-12-14

smile naturally ten years ago when
they paid for the dinne: f~r two,
and now they are glimpsing ito
younger brothers Of these young
men smiling heroically as they trade
huge segments Of life savings for
the evenings food.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-14

for years, two large, thick glasses
filled with thicker syrup, studded
with fruit if it was strawberry, a
New-York tribune., 1919-12-14
By Bertram Reinitz

A YOUNG MAN who works
~ at one of number of
4 n desks in a large Office
>. downtown approached his
boss the other day on the subject of
more money each week. The sup
nliant mentioned the increased cost
Of Everything"
zone would think you're married
from the way you bleat," the boss
said. 81 don't see how this high
cost Of things hits you single fell
lows at all. Maybe it does boost the
price of your board and cuts down
on your drinks, but that's about all. I"
The young man floundered through
his vocabulary for suitable refu-
tation. He finally mumbled some
thing about having girl, loving her
and desiring to give her all the
things that a member of a union is
able to provide for the one girl.
The boss granted the increase. It
ehanced he had only that afternoon
bought a dozen American Beauty
roses for his wife in recognition of
ten years of unity. In his court
ship DAYS those roses had cost him
$12 q dozen. He remembered he
had had sense of shock that dec
ade had added 100 per cent to the
cost Of roses.
Other young men probably are
being turned down daily in their
petitions for salsry raises, largely
because their bosses are limiting
their gifts to their wives to wearing
apparel and staple foods.
Every once in a while the United
States Department Of Labor issues a
group Of statistics showing that the
cost of eggs has advanced 20 or so
per cent, as the case may be, while
the cost Of baby shoes has @lasbed
FIVE sizes in the last three years.
u --~~'a nronaranda
ine worker with mate has only to
write to a government bureau to get
eloquent facts to cite for the raise
in salary appeal. He'll receive mate
rial with every whistle of the post
man.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-14
Theaters, for Instance

The best seat in any house ten
years ago, according to Grenaker,
cost $3.50. The same seat takes
SO away from the young man in
love to-day. There is a 60-cent
war tax on two SO theater tickets.
Figures wildly portray the
scurvy trick which the cost of
walking out" is playing upon
young men in love. A comparison
OF the cost Of an evening out with
her in 1909 and in 1919 gives the
following appalling results:
Theater tickets $500 $3.50
Canoy ................... go 1925
conveyance ...e......>~.. 1.OO so
Dlnner Tor two. .........-. 2.25 700
Tips ..........-~...... rs 10
Dancing ..........-. .. Nothing 200
Soft drinks (2). 80 100
Total $1e.15
These statistics are from the re-
searches, in addition to those of
Messrs. Grenaker and Mcintyre, of
W. Bundy Cole, Of the Black and
White Taxi Company. The $19.15
for an evenings entertainment for
two might seem exaggerated to some,
but it won't appear excessive at all
to the smitten young men who are
thankful for the privilege of paying
it once week at least.
The sole decline in price in the
roster Of entertainment is the cost
Of vehicular transportation. Mr..
Cole said that In 1909 the cost Of
The daily progressive-miner., 1919-04-28
REVISED TEXT OF
 LEAGUE OE NATIONS
 MADE PUBLIC TODAY
Covenant Will Be Taken lip For Final Disposition At Penary Session today -Thiry-two Original
 Members of League Thirteen to be Invited

WASHINGTON D. G. Aprl 28-The revised text of the League of Nations whose essential features disclosed unofficial two weeks made public by the State Department today.
 be taken up final disposition at the penay session of the conference today Attached the text is the annex referred to in the covenant in which named thrytwo states including selfgovening British do
 nions which to be the original members of the League of Nations and thirteen states to be invited The original
 members nations which declared Germany and there the states of Czechosovaka and Poland Those in
 ted become members by accedg to the covenant the three Scandinavian countries the Netherlands Switzerland Spain, Argentina Chile Colombia, Paragua Salvador Venezuela, Mexico does not appear in the list
 The changessuggested in the criticisms by the United States Senators provide for the adoption of provisions for the with dawa of member nation two years notice after the full flment of League obligations. All domestic questions ep from the jurisdiction of the League It is also provided
 that nandatoes the German colonies the former Otto doions shall be given only to nations willing to accept them is also left to the member of the states to decide what armed force will contribute to the force required by the League it's mandates and is also made that rembers states individually shall proposed lita tions upon their ornaments. League includes all provisions for submission council of International disputes; for inviting nonmember nations accept the obligations of mem ber for the of adjusting disputes and for breaking economic relations of armed forces in dealing with state e mas nano ne gee@ent required order international cooperation ana 10 acheVe ernaona peace security by the acceptance of obgaons not to resort the prescription of ope just ana honor able relations nations by the firm estabshment the understandings international law as to actual rules conduct among the governments and by the maintenance o justice scrupuou respect for all treaties and ooeatos the dealings organized peoples with one another The g contracting parties this covenant 1the League o & tons.
 PARIS April 28The revised covenant ot the League o Nations was adopted penay ot the peace ~ + 5 o'clock this afternoon adopted the covenant in cuded President Wilson's motions nominating SIT ETC Dro mond of England the first SecretaryGenera ana naming Relo;um Greece Brazil Spain for representation Ill te
 aue Council together with the United States, Great Britain France, Italy and Japan
The daily progressive-miner., 1919-04-28
ODDFELLOWS TO ENTERTAIN THEIR
 FRIENDS TONIGHT

A theatre party, banquet and dance all to follow one another, are the plans for the executive committee of the local ledge of I. o. o. F. for their families, visiting members and former members this evening.
 The Liberty Theatre has been en- gagged for this evening and cards were sent out this week to the invited guests. The program for the enter tainment will open at the Liberty at 8 o'clock sharp and as there is to De but one performance, the guests are reouested to be in their seats by that time. Besides regular picture pro- cram, special numbers both vocal and instrumental, will Ibe given by such we'll known local artists as Mrs. J. A. Talbot and her sister, Miss Amy Hunt MT. and Mrs. Jack Barbour, Miss La I,oma Van Zandt, Miss Martha Foos- ness. Miss Irene DuHamel and MT. J. A. Clary.
 After tr'o theatre party, the guests will repair ,2 nod Men Hall where the banquet and dance will take place
The daily progressive-miner., 1919-04-28
Barge Carries Sup
 plies To Railroad

ANCHORAGE, (By MaiD.-Seyen hundred and forty tons of railroad supplies constitute the first shipment of material in the season of 1919 to ar rive in Anchorage for the Alaska En9i' neering Commission
 The freight was loaded at Seattle on the barge Lawrence. From Seattle to Seldovia, which is near the mouth of Cook Inlet about 120 miles south of Anchorage. the Lawrence was lowed by the ocean tug Oneonta. From Sel dovia, the Lawrence was taken in tow by the Commission s steamer Anne w. and brought to Anchorage
 Included in the cargo of the barge Were one coaling elevator. 1444 rails of seventy-pound steel, 1269 packages of spikes bolts and fittings; 197 bun dles of iron, 200 barrels of fuel oil and I'll bales of hay.