The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-26

LESS PINK CHEEKS
Artificial Beauty Will Come
Higher After May 1.
Tax viii Be Placed on All Face
Articles.
YE GODS! SILK HOSE, TOO!
Almost Everything Milady
Wears Will Be Hit.
Less Clothes and Little Rouge
re GODS! SILK HOSE, TOO!
Less Clothes and Little Rouge
May Be the Result.

oh, girls, for cats sake! They're
gonna put a TAX. on rouge and face
powder! TO think that beauty-ey en-
the artificial kind-should be sacri-
feed to pay for bullets and guns and
cannons and bayonets and all such
horrid thingsl
And that isn't all. Silk stockings
and lingerie, petticoats and kimonos
and numerous other articles of femi-
nine apparel, visible and invisible. dis
covered and undiscover cd. are found
in the list of Iuxuries prepared by the
revenue department for taxation.
But it's inevitable. The red, red
roses in milady's cheeks may pale
slightly after May 1, nor is it certain
that the ardent lover will continue to
run the same risk of detection on ac-
count of the white spot on his shoul-
der. And those ruby lips with the
curve of Cupid's bow-Ye gods' Where
will they be? Truly, the horrors of
war have been brought home.
Tax Goes on May 4.
On and after May 1 that tax of one
cent on every purchase of rs cents or
fraction thereof on all perfumes, toilet
waters, cosmetics, hair oils, pomades,
hair dyes, petroleum jellies, hair re-
storatives, tooth pastes, toilet pow
ders and all other preparations used
or intended to be used for toilet pur-
poses will be collected. All you'll have
to do is hand the extra penny to your
merchant when you make the pur-
chase and he'll straighten the matter
up with Uncle Sam personally.
The name of the brute who discov-
cred that rouge and face powders are
luXuries and should be taxed has never
been revealed, but somehow congress
began thinking as he did, and made
the law. 1t was the horrid men who
did it, and the women didn't have
chance to say word.
I'm the spring the young mans
fancy lightly turns to thoughts of
love" but in spite of this the governs
ment, it seems, did not wish to carry
the project so far as to put luxury
tax on wives so compromised by tax
ing everything they wear. But at that,
the men shouldered their share of the
burden and each male of the species
will contribute his share toward the
payment of your Uncle's bills.
Soft Drinks Taxed Also.
What will probably hit the average
man and woman harder than all else
in Topeka this summer is the 10 per
cent tax on soft drinks and ice cream.
The tax is 1 cent on every purchase
of 10 cents or fraction thereof. There
fore there will be 1 cent tax on
scent drinks. In other words, it will
cost each 'dreamy-eyed maid an extra
penny for every coke" she sips this
summer, a cents extra for every
sundae. There may be some induce
ment to pass up the cooke" with the
tax of 1 cent and absorb a great dish
of ice cream, with crushed fruit or
nuts, on which the tax is only l cent
more. Bottled drinks-grape juice,
ginger ale, pop. sarsaparilla, root beer
and other soft beverages-will be sub
nnf 70 20 ~ 1
Elaborate schedules for the taxation
of wine, whisky, beer and other arti-
cles supposed to be foreign to Kansas
have been arranged, but will be of
little interest to Topekans in this en-
lightened age.
On all women's and misses silk
hose-things the horrid revenue Of
ficerS should never think ola tax
equivalent to 10 per cent will be col
lected on the amount paid for each
pair in excess of 50. The women have
it over the men in this case, as any
amount over 81 paid for mems hose
is taxable. Amounts in excess of SIS
paid for mems, women's, misses or
boys pajamas. night gowns and I'M
derwear and amounts exceeding SIS
for kimonos, petticoats and waists are
also taxable 10 per cent.
Tax Almost Everything.
All sporting goods and all firearms,
shells and cartridges are subject to a
tax of 10 per cent, except such of the
latter class as are sold to the govern
ment or any foreign government en-
gagged in war with Germany. Chew
ing gum will be taxed per cent and
candy per cent
In fact, everything regarded as a
luxury is taxed, but the greatest out
rage of all is the tax on rouge and
face powder and the possibility of
beautiful Topeka ultimately becoming
plain.