New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-27

il r-%HERE is no end to the inherent and
81 persistent deception of women ! say
"a j. this as man and with an entirely mas
q culine point of view She occupies US
81 sth her whims and wiles, and then, pre-
gntng q totally different side of her nature,
III 1oceeds to steal an economic march on u.s.
Fl The fact seems at last to have been rather
+ sell established that man the spender is
Il sowly but surely making his exit. To him
allowed some of the joy of battle in the
usness war, the pleasure of bringing home
he bacon" in big deal and depositing the
bot in the bank. With that act he is practi-
ally finished The other sex now steps in
md by the aid of the checkbook or dainty
myers not loath to touch the lucre proceeds
b distribute the swag and the sweat of the
row Of the father or husband. Be he dig
gsr in the bitches, skilled workman at his
snch, loathed white collar man. or
hgh-priced executive, his function is the
rs ame--to earn money, not to spend it.
81 This order of things has been going on for
|# some time, a long Time IN IacC, parClcularly
ii this country. e
|A In view of the probability Of things be-
|M coming worse instead of better, from, the mas
81 cuhne point of view, it seems pertinent, or
perhaps impertinent, according to the women,
81 10 cali attention to some of these "goings on
81 The women are not overanxious to do this.
& With all of the acumen of good strategists
4 hey focus the attention at one place while in
dsSriously digging in at some other point of
geraion.
During the last few generations man has
ten so tremendously busy in the building
j 1 this complex, mechanical and artificial
4 nlization of ours that he has not had time
aspend the fruits accruing from his efforts.
some one had to do this, and without so much
u a "thank you, kind SIR the wife and
aughters have taken up the task. They
aem to have made quite a complete job of
it Various authorities estimate that she
woman, spends all the way from IS to go per
ant of all the money expended in retail
stores
4 authorities: National Retail Dry
4 Goods association, Nelo York City; Ida
J Bailey Allen Home Economic Expert
Philadelphia; New York League of Ad-
rertisfg Womes;.l
n paltry 8 to Is per cent is left for us
men to spend for cigars and an occasional
new shirt or necktie. if this can be secured
Without the supervision of wives or sweet
hearts, and perhaps on occasion a bottle of
4 migrating spirits. If disuse of faculty
can rob an individual of it entirely, then the
aen Of this country seem to be in fair way
ahave their assumed ability to spend nickel
the best advantage atrophy and wither
way
no one seems to know definitely how much
money is annually expended across the
winters Of the retail stores for all kinds of
aetchandise. A magazine of national cir
alatlon, however states that, according to
@aaies which they made, some $12,000,000,-
wy IS expended annually for foods, $4,000
ID 1870 AoI Qiy gO0uS ana feduv TO wear,
sVVo0,000 for candy, almost 81 500, 100000
~ fusniture, to quote only few of the out
ssndne items.
fAathorities: Division of Commercial
aesearch Advertising Department, Curtis
Publishing Company
aen who shudder at the thought of their
"ss having complete control over check
eVA and bank account will no doubt be
s"efly depressed at the thought of women
'saaing even 50 per. cent of all of these
'aa0is. Perhaps they can extract some
auSiaction from the fact that they can
esfeey be called parsimonious in the way in
'1en they supply their families with spend
money. The effect on bachelors will
sDaoy be to make them cling more tightly
- ever before to the uncrowned glories of
s~ Diessedness. Perhaps it is hardly fair
pnng up more figures, but when it is re-
''aoered that during the war. when we were
asaiy rushing commodities of all kinds to
4fepe, the highest total was only So
V0V'ooo for one year it will be seen that
|S = tne hand that controls the family nurse