Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-19

Girls will be girls" a United
States Senator said to me the other
day with an amused chortle. At the
same time he handed mo a letter
from a lady demanding a Congress
sional inquiry into the high cost
OF living.
The letter stated that the writer
had been recently enfranchised
and as voter she wished to have
the impossible prices of the neces-
saries of life Investigated.
read the letter, which seemed
reasonable enough to have escaped
the Senator's fling at the sex. Then
the signature caught my eye, and
joined him in the chortle.
The letter was from a lady who
| had worked early and late to de-
feat Woman Suffrage. While con-
scientiously repeating the parrot
formula of the disgruntled sister
hood that suffrage would take
woman from the aome and cause
her children to be neglected." this
anti-suffrage Mrs. Jellyby was sell
dom to be found at her own hearth
stone.
Stoutly maintaining that she re-
manned away from her own sacred
precincts only to compel other
women to keep to rheirs-the habit
seemed to grow upon her, and it
was a red-letter morning indeed
when Mr. Jellyby drank his break
fast coffee opposite Mrs. Jellyby.
Many is the time | have seen this
good lady in the Senate gallery re-
served for Anti -Suffra gists-a pink
rose pinned to her bosom-gazing
down admiringly on the junior
Senator from New York. who was
similarly garnished. But that is
all over now, ana the pale pink
dog-in-t n-the-manger rose is not as
hold the first to leave the sinking
popular as it used 10 be. And be-
hold the first to leave the sinking
antisuffrage ship is the lady who
demands an investigation of the
high cost of living now that the
new order is practically established.
Well, as the Senator said, Girls
will be girls
In the meantime, we women have
been promised a Congressional in
ve5tigation into the high cost of
living. A coed many of us are
feeling "fed-up'' Oil this kind of tea
party. We recall so many investi-
cations that began with the beating
of tom-toms and the boom and
crash of oratory, and concluded
with a little futurist whitewashing
OF all parties concerned, that we are
not losing any sleep over the pend
ing investigation.
Women feel, however, that at last
they hold the medicine in their own
hands; they are able to vote, and
common sense indicates that they
will not vote for men who are in
different to their interests. Women
are more difficult 20 deceive than
men in regard to the high cost of
living.
Most women spend their lives in
petty economies; they don't at all
mind walking a block or two to
save a couple of coppers. And in
the way of making over clothes,
economic camouflage is second
nature to them they won't stand
| too much "bunkum" about the cost
| OF production, etc.
Easier to Fool All the Men
1t may be comparatively easy to
| fool all the men all the time about
| the cost tof food. Men, as shoppers
| have always helped to fiji the joke
! column. But it's different with
| women; they have been trained ir
| too hard a school; you can't fool al
the women all the time about the
cost of food and the other necessa
ries of life
1t will be highly interesting tt
watch what this latest of investi
/ cations will develop. Food produc
ers describe the beggariy margin
of their profits. their bare livini
wage, their struggle with labor
the martydrom of selling rount