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contributed its bit. In a contest between the suit and an automobile, the car always wins.
Other factors have been the high cost of permanents and fur coats for the ladies. When it became mandatory that a woman spend a minimum of $50 a year at the hairdresser's, and $500 for a fur coat, the household budget cracked. Husbands were lucky if they could find the money for a cotton jackpt,
Lest some reader think these statements are prejudiced here is a quoted remark made by a member of the men’s clothing industry: “A woman buys her husband a $1 tie for an $85 suit. Yet she spends $2 for a pair of nylons for herself and 50 cents for a pair of socks for him, and expects those socks to last a year.”
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Let no one labor under the delusion that the New Yorker is regular reading around these parts. My opinion of the magazine is far from flattering, an<l I’m certain the editors are losing no sleep about it.
Somehow, the final impression given is that all the world except those who live within the dark and dismal confines of Manhattan proper border on the mental .acumen of something resembling Li’l Abner.
It furnishes food, for thought: do you suppose it ever i^nvns on them that they furnish the same type of amusement to the country Lumpkins?
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With the Legion boys dispensing honest sweat (somebody did -ome work, anyway,) in setting c> t those trees along the roadside, it’s getting time for the rest of us put in our share to help keep Rappahannock beautiful. Carelessness of dumping and throwing trash along the roadsides in Rappahannock must be on the increase, because the department of highways is beginning to notice it. We know most of ;t is done by
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