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wre = & ee LN TTI WHY DAD @» MOTHER CouLD AFFORD To MARRY YOUNC, Costs To-Day Compared With 25 Years Ago HOWE HWE R cmp SIRE FE Hee ee ne eG ON BASIS Pace Dad| THEN OF CHEAPEST PRACTICABLE PURCHASKS $165 Bride's Trousseau 500 Furniture—3 Rooms Rent, Per Month 8 Table, Per Week NOW | Son Must $448 882 Now Earn By Fay Stevenson. Copyright, 1922 (New York Brentng World), by Press Publishing Co. | Sani has had a bad slump this past year. City Clerk Cruise tells us that only 74,707 marriage licenses were fm 1920. The loss is 4, ued in the Greater City for the twelve months of 1921 against 79,234 Of course certain wise heads will point out numerous “whys and where- fores," among them the passing of war romances and shortage of homes. But let's look back when Mom and Dad first started to housekeeping, say fome twenty-five years ago, and see just HOW things have changed. If Young people had the same conditions to-day, would they be more tempted @ marry? You may point out that dad had Perhaps a salary of from $1,200 to $1,500 in those days, while to-day wages and salaries vary from $2,500 ‘to $3,000, but when prices have doubled and trebled themselves what does this tmcrease amount to? Then two could Nve cheaper than one, but now one can't live as cheaply as two could then! To begin with let's go back to Mom's Qrousseau. What did the bride of twenty-five years ago spend compared to the bride of to-day? We are not talking of the girl who goes in for eld lace and hand-made lingerie, we mean the every-day, middle-class girl. “What did the average bride pay for her trousscau when mother wus agirl?” T asked several white haired sales- women of one of our oldest and most Prominent department stores in this city. Together these women, who have all had twenty-five years ex- perience in lingerle, suits, gowns and hats, figured out the cost of a trousseau in the year 1897, And then we summed up the same trousseau to-day and there are the results: THEN— Lingerie Travelling suit Wedding gown - NoWw— Lingerie Travelling Wedding gown ‘Two afternoon gown! Shoes, hats, gloves, & “It seems like a big jump for a girl to pay $15 for her lingerie in the old days and $100 for the same thing to-day,” said Miss Lillie Walkamp, head of the gerle department, ‘ut in the old days many girls and their mothers made their wedding Ungerie and therefore only had the cost of the lace and muslins. Even then, though, I can remember when we had what we called a ‘bride's outfit’ in this depariment and it cost Just. $15." ‘But to-day girls don’t wear mus- laces?” [ interjected. ‘That's just where the $100 comes in," laughed Miss Walkamp. ‘“To- day lingerie consists of silk, Canton crepe, pussy willow and’ radium satin. Most any girl's whole outfit could be placed in an envelope, but it costs like the witches,” “Fifty dollars was considered an enormous price for a bride's travel- ling sult, but she usually invested * goed sum in this ‘going-away’ sut and then wore it for two or three years,” said Miss Ann Byrne, a buyer with much experence in her line of work. “To-day the same quality travelling suit will cost a girl at least 998, for the day of cheap tailored suits for occasions like that is over." So much for the pmblem of the trousseau, What of the landlord and the short- age of homes? Dad and Mom could rent a five or six-room apartment for $30. If they wanted a house they could get it for $40 2 month. But $30 fiat which played an important part in the life of the new. the lyweds even a decade ago ta a happy memory To-day three or four room niche in the wail costs at least $75 or $80 a month And than there ie the furniture to consider. Dad and Mom fur- nished a large flat with prob- ably an extra bedroom set for the “in-laws” for about $500. To- day $500 will scarcely buy a dining room suite. “What will it cost to furnish the three-room apartment?” T asked J. A Black, a salesman who has had twenty-five years’ experience wit! one of the oldest furniture firms in the city. Mr, Black had admitte tiat $500 went a long way in th old days and even bought a set of dishes and cooking utensils. “It will cost a deal more,’ id Mr. lack scratching his head and then bAding apologetically, “but the fur- ‘aiture is much prettier, It has better and everything matches. Your dad and mom that you speak of who went shopping twenty-five years ago bought gingerbread furniture of oak. It wasn’t much like the furniture of grandparents, say, fifty yeans back, when rea! solid mahogany was used To-day we are copying that period end newlyweds may pay more for it, but it is graceful and represents a certain period.” Coming down to definite facts Mr. Black said that a three-room apart- ment could be furnished for the fol- owing sum: Living room set Dining room euite . Boudoir auite $245 350 287 $882 couple Nat ave to purchase dis’ and kitehen outfit walle Mam and Dad urished a $500 b.Jl and got 60 much re, thia may be ANOTHER reason my old Dan has fallen down on his this year. And then, there Is the table to the weekly expenditures for food. In the id old da: when Mom and Bad maeried ene housewives boasted they could run the table on a dollar a day, And according to George Jassoy, who has been employed at Jefferson. Market for twenty-five years, ths statement must be true. Ji husties about the market pi orders, but he doesn’t fill the baskets the wav he used to. “TL can remember when a one or two-dollar bill bought a great bas- ket full of food,” said he. “Yes, roasts and chickens, eggs and butter and everything, To-day a five-dollar bill buys a pound of butter, a dozen eggs, @ little meat and perhaps a vegetable or two. “In those days the newlyweds spent ebout seven dollars a week and lived on the fat of the land. To-day they would have to plan to get along on $15, Eggs were twenty-five cents a dozen, butter twenty cents a pound, steak sixteen and eighteen cents pound and corned beef six cents pound with a cabbage thrown n. No wonder Mom and Dad married when they were voung, and 19 won- der this generation is postponing marriage until later on in life. But despite high prices we haven't for- gotten that salanes and wages have gone wp a lot, and since all good optimists tell ws things are coming down, even such things as rents, we sti have faith in Cupid. Besides, wasn't 1920 leap year? Weil, let's see what happens this year! Why Not Look Your Best? = By Doris Doscher | Copsright, 1922, (New York Evening World By Press Publiehing Gore WU? Dear Miss Doscher: Caeser TA AM troubled with a great deal of dand- uff and my hair also falls out, { have been using kerosene on mv hair, Is this good for making the hair grow? What would you advise for falling hair and dandruff? Mpoais POsScHER Could you tell me how to lighten a dark skin? ANXIOUS, Massage is a very effective cure for dandruff. Nightly attention to brush- ing the hair is very helpful and feed- ing the scalp a little Nquid vaseline or olive oil will help overcome the very dry nature of the scalp. To lighten the skin requires attention to the general health. A mild solution. of lemon juice helps to bleach it Dear Miss Doscher: Will you kindly tell me wh: can do to make my eyebrows I thick and a blond color? My eyebrows are black and my hair ‘s blond, you also inform me of the cause of chapped hands and how the defect may be remedied? ANXIOUS, I would not advise you to bleach the eyebrows as they are usually a darker shade than the hair, Dark 8 a ore of an attractive he eyes then they would ached them. ‘Try using slened with a milk instead of soap when washing the hands and every night apply a little glycerine and rose water before retiring. Be sure that the hands are thoroughly dry before they are ex- posed to ihe cold air in the morning. THE EVEN! | Can You THE CAT IS EATING? OUR FISH HAY Be THE FISH WAS BAp! DH 3 HH Beat It! MAY BE THE FISH WAS FULL OF PTOMAINE POIsan if (xem Yor rsning Weta) ‘By Press Tibliahing Oo DON'T SCOLD HIM. TS ae beer. ACUTE INDIGESTION & WE THANK YOu For EATING OUR FISH. You Have NG WORLD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1922, SAVED Our Lives! 3017 FO SR RTS RT IC By Maurice Ketten i pOOmOU 200 OUI ICICI RIED 300910 NORRIE ICRC YOu ARE RIGHT. EVE HAY Re WE WOULD HAVE SWALLOWED FISH BONES ANDCHOKED TO DEATH AMOR RY, @ The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardeil/ Copsright, 66] THINK the children have had ] cnovgh holiday enjoymcnt” —Mr, Jarr began. You speak as though they were poor children who got to see nothing except during the holidays, so if a friend sends us tickets for a box tu the children’s matinee, why shouldn't the children go?" “I think they should go to school, that's what I think,” mumbled Mr. Jarr. “But it you want to take ther to th i natinee, all righ He t have taken that attitude or it was a very high society to which the very best peo- i phasis that Mrs. Jarre V mild hay thoug 1 here. wit ur litte nephews ce" wh 6 entered the playhouse with her ttle boy and girl and found Mrs. Stryver and ho charges in th Mrs. Clara mith had ¢ tered the Stryver box, being evident!y (RICCI Croup in p is rare during the x months of life, it is dingly common after the excee first year. It is a condition which causes a good deal of alarm to the young in- experienced mother. It need not, as the form of croup that attacks at night a child who 1s well during the day is caused by nothing more seri- ous than an accumulation of mucus (phlegm) in the back part of the throat. Always remember that In- fants cannot expectorate. True croup i8 a rare disease and the child has usually been ailing sev- eral days before it comes on. In both false and true croup the onset is eud- den, accompanied by fright and diffi- culty In breathing. A nervous child may even have a convulsion; therefore, the treatment must be tmmediate, The first step is to relax the tissues of the throat with steam, elther plain or medicated. Almost every family in which there are children possesses a croup keitle, or one can be impwo- vised ty fitting @ tin funnel into the spout of an ordinary kettle. Place a kettle of boiling water in such @ postion beside the little one's crib that the steam from the funnel pours under the canopy that has has- over She bed, REM CHORE RMN BS BM ES HH tae & be Babyhood By Charlotte C. West, M. D. improvised croup tent ean quickly be made with an 1 um 1 tan angle to the head of the orb and a sheet suspended n it) A mild emetic (a drus th vomiting) will sometimes cut an attack. The most useful {8 wine of ipecac, from 5 to 10 drops in a little water; our object is to cause Nausea, not’ vomiting, and +o relax the larynx, when the spasm will soon be relieved The atmosphere of steam not only accomplishes th.s, but causes a co- pious flow of accretions from the mus cous membranes, which also affords marked relief in most cases. Many acoidents have occurred from tm- proper management of the steam kettle and from giving powerful emetios. There is absolutely no excuse for such accidents, for while the vapor {s being directed under the tent the child must not be left for a moment; also powerful drugs are not indicat. ed, doing far more n good In the abacnce the foregoing applied to h ad will spasm, A sponge wrung water will 14 wel Counter irr fon of est with a mustard plaster, cart ated off or turpentine are homely vemedies not ver wold New York Erening World), bh Press Publis of the Stryver party. “Dreadful bore, isn't it?" ‘she remarked lo Mrs, darcy “but we had to come to bring these. And with a toss of her head sh indicated Mrs, Stryver's little nepliew and niece as though they were co: roaches or poor relations or oth pests that afflict us. This is the att tude many childless women assum and it makes the blood of real moth ers boil. "[t's too bad about you!" retorted arr, wno didn’t care insulted a friend in the ca motherhood and morality wonder you ditn’t bring your Pomer anian—sickening little beast! ing Co, “It would have been too much for dear little K nerves,” said M Mudridge-Smith, langui ly $ niffed Mrs nd turned to gaze wi hija ‘ the y Spectacle "Don't breathe so hard. J cause yo interested as Mrs. Stryver to her little ni “A straighten up, Ermintrude, you a getting stoop shouldered nd don't squint so, Ronald! A hold you chocolates tn your handkerchief wh'! taking them from the box. You'll get your gloves stained!" “I suppose we'l have to sit throu this whole d ul affair on acco of these brats!" remarkce ridge-Smith, yawning we send them in chargé of one « maids or their governes Mrs Mur This was a slap at Mrs. Jarr, w had no ids or governess to taice her childrén to a matinee But Jarr didn't mind that She was angry at the poor little meh chilc in the next box being so badgered 1 hectored while trying to see the plas “Don't laugh at the e's vulear!” said Mrs. Stry her unfortunate charges. don't watch him twisting around It will make you dizzy!" she added Meanwhile Master Willie Jarr and his little sister were enjoying every thing hugely. “Dreadful, isn't it?" murmured Mrs. Stryver to Clara Mudridge Smith, “but they pestered me so I had to bring them! I do not know why my sister should want me to do it, Ermintrude is so nervous she Won't sleep to-night. See, she's bit- ing her nails now!" And she jerked the child's hand and it commenced to ery, “That's right! Spoil everybody's enjoyment!" cried Clara Mudridge Smith “We'll take them right ont!" erie the other, And they hated t testing little wretches away “Thank gae enough t Mra. Jari tainly y ct of the Lox, deurle—but nut boron Copyright, 1022 By Caroline Crawford New York Eyeuing World), by Prose Publishlas Oa Which Man Will Peggy Choose for a Husband? at mi rap e, wad years racton. ‘own, senior. The office opens. ti fending this story to-day. “Evers Instalment @ new he 6 tory, of « trvtcal New Xork gir rrixon Te ere ‘experiences, irs. PEGGY'S FIRST FORMAL DANCE. #GY and her mother planned quite an elaborate little dance. Several times Marion Minton had given home dances, ’ rolled up the rugs in the living room, started the Victrola and they were off But this was a danee noon graved ations was given at a cute little Ce on Washington Heights, and a full braas band re were twenty guests in all, in- Marton Minton and several of r chums and a number of youns e whom Billy and Pogsy had wn in business school. "Mother is really giving this dance for just you and me,” whispered Pegsy Billy led her out on the floor for the t dance. Peggy wore a biack satin ul net dancing frock with no orna- ments sive @ corsage of violets and los of the valley, which Billy had pre- rented to her, She had always longed for @ black satin, and this wes her kn “Do you mean that your mother cares enough about me to get up 4 dance Uke this?” whispered Billy as ed along. tut I always thought your family anxious for you to marry Townley,” interjected Blily, “I had en idea thet I wae more or less of intruder.” “Mothers have @ way of under staniing thelr daughters, Billy, so \et's be happy to-night," chirped Pegey, and there was a certa!y das’ nd happiness about her remark (hat Hilly deetdedly hope after dance ht apread an found all th were and then ¢ Ai of apirite, it wan ner y were all meated at tho lang tant Kone Joe Shaw thes thas we prise of the evening appeared upon Mrs. Dayton's arm, He was short, rather inclined to be fat, and although probably not over twenty-eight, slightly bald, and he was In evening clothes of tho hoys at the dance were in tweeds and business clothes, so that he seemed to stand out most glaringly as Mra Dayton brought him forward and an n d that be st und after supper there w several more dances The moment the young mun troduced as Jack Reod, membered that one of the chapcrons who Was stand'ng up with her mother as she entered the inn was a Mrs. Reed. Her mother had explained that they were old school chums and seemed to take great pride in intro- Jucing Peggy, but there was no men tion of a son, At @ nod from her mother, arose and cordially crasped the h of young Reed. Then she noted for the first time that the table was set for twenty-one instead of twenty. Billy, who sat opposite Pegey, ‘ooked most meaningly into her eyes. His great brown eyes seemed to say, “So mothers have a way of under- standing their daughters, have they? Well, this is the und of our happiness to-night.” Jack Reed, for his part, seemed to consider the whole affair for him “I was so sorry that I was not able to be here earlier in the evening,” he explained, “but I came all the way from Philadelphia to attend your dance I have heard of Peggy Day- ton all my life through my mot end I dare say you have heard of me. Peggy had to admit that she had not, but Reed was too busy talking about himeelf to notice tht A the eupper several dances followed, but Pegry was able to get only the last one with Billy. Although Billy escorted her home, the fact that Jack Reed and the two mothers were just in back of them put a dampur on the whole evening, the evening Porgy had planned to be such ene with Billy. them at tt nnee Was the twonty-first was way Perey nd e door of the but Jack Reet and bia cr remained for a chat despite slenean of the hour. . To-Morrow——Jack Reed P, ose Foot ESE RO TE = SOT eH _——y eH OR ON ee ee Fables for the Fair Swapping Parties By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. MORAL: Don't Swap Partners in the Middle of the Marriage—You May Go Further and Fare Worse. Copsright, 1022 (New York Fiening World: time Swapping Christmas presents the other night at the Women’s City Club. SOU CC MDO MORIN § When You Are’ Down... Dumps : By Sophie Irene Loeb Coprright, 1922, (New York Evening World) By T= had a wild and wonderful ‘Presa Publishing Co, F you are weak and wan and weary and look out at the gray sky, and hug close whatever grievance you lave against the ¥ world, or your family or your self-if you think verything and everybody 1s against you and the leaden heav- ens accentuate your dreary thoughts — then, gentio reader, read the follo Paters, business it 19 to look for sunshine, no matter how gray things are, She writes ag follows “Picture to you hands 90 crip) wolf a person with 1 that only one thumb and finger on one hand can be used. Or a person eo weak that only for a few moments at a time can she sit up to do a little work. Then fancy these poople doing work that partially supports them and gives them an impetus toward liv- ing." All these people ask is just that living. They want uo charity—Just a chance. They want no alms—they want to earn their way, So that you who have a chance and perhaps luxu- ries too, you who look out at the grayness, just read over that para- graph and put yourself in the place of such a one 48 Miss Peters tells about. rant you that your gloom will be dispelled if you will just stop and answer her plea, for in her words, “You know the public needs prod- a'r ‘This is what is done by the New York State Branch of the Shut-In Seclety of which she is President: “Pho society carries on many other activi . such iting, remenyber. ing birthdays od providing: small and needed coinforts and lend- ing our members wheel chalra for houso and street use and keeping them in touch with the active, out sida world by lettors and literature, “Qur great need to-day is help in werrying on our Exchange. 'The ex- pense Is considerable but tho result to be attained is worth it all, Miss Feters pleads: “It te these prave souls who are the consignors to the Shut-In Exchange, No. 129 Bast 34th Street. They are both men and women, all of whose work comes up to a high standand. ‘Phew consignors are paid all but 15 per vent. on sal of necessity, the Exchange cannot. be selt-supporting. We wish the public would come in to wee the fine and pretty articles dis- played, that their hearts and purses might be openid to help us conunue the work. I have heard many @ one say that if they were in the same predicament as some of these people they would want to die. The fact is that lite is dear and sweet no matter how precari- ous and under what conditions they live. So if the blue devils have got you, run down to the shut-In Society and buy something for somebody and your y will cease being sad. You will ave done something for one much worse off than you. The best way to cure the “blue is to drive th avay from some ont And when - thi rt home let ys ler prisons y 5 and wed not a trend tn the world was Great writer and wrote beautiful things, and thus felt keen) p fact that the world had turned its back on him in the very depths of his despair he looked out through his prison bare and saw the faint out- line of @ tree with leaves on it, vith that sight a new hope and Ah,” he said, “when I « hall go out to that tree close tot At least moe. It grows as any one, Its ing hall soothe me and give because I know that it w ts beauty and comfort who I am And, gentle reader, if a man behind prison bars can get hope by looking into @ tree, surely you and { can, who go and come as we please ‘Tide over the bad day in some deed matter od pm Ye ORD HE HE eA i i New Inventions ITH a new gas range food can be brought to @ boiling con- dition, after which the gus is shut off and an insulated hood dropped over the food receptacle to make it a fireless cooker. Salt and pepper shakers made of paper have been invented A new ten carp sequinned wil a ent heated either by gus ele y, im which food may t kept wurm or ¢ cooking dor handle of an electric fat iron ss Nera iovention can be apread by Pres Pubitshing Co, Sometimes you drew an Improve ment On your pink china poodle or pink chiffon camisple— Sometimes you’ were stung worse in the same place. And now a wise editor suggests Swapping parties in polities, Working off one job lot of politicians for another, Trading one slightly shopworn “set of issues For a different group that has been soiled by handling “Just suppose,” suggests the Cyne, “The present popular principle jaf ‘How'll you trade? ; Were extended to matrimony! { The divorce courts, even now, are doing their Iittle best; ' As some one has pointed out, | Modern divores makes marriages, as well as unmaking them, Shuffles them, In fact,” But, after all, dear Cynic, eight American marriages out of every nine Do NOT ond in divoree—to reverse the more widely quoted and more sensational statistics. H nd, quite aside from considerations of religion, morality and children, There’s a very simple reason why Mrs. John Brown wouldn't swap John for some other partner, Or he her! They know each other's defects, down ,to the last irritating map nerism; Mrs, Brown wonders if John wi ever stop eating mince pie ‘The last thing before he goes to be@ And waking up, a8 a consequence, with a dark brown taste and am even darker grouch, Of which the first interferes with bis enjoyment of his breakfast, And the last interferes with bis fam fly's enjoyment of theirs! She also thinks, wistfully, That tt would be nice to hi band Who knew how to pay his wife @ pretty compliment Without a fishing excursion pep» sonally conducted by her. , j She reflects that some men mat to keep their hair and their teeth ‘ntil they are really old. As for John, ‘te wonders how {t would seem to be married to a woman interested is his work, He gets awfully tired of looktn across the breakfast table At the same plump, yet sallow coum tenance, And the same rimless eyeglasses, He can't understand why, on Sata» day morning, It always should be necessary te hand out an advance on next week's housekeeping allowance, He thinks any woman might haye more sense aa Than to wear shoes half a size toe smal) 4 And make her husband and famfly suffer the consequences of hep suffering. Yet the record shows that such vige times of disgruntled domesticity Positively refuse to swap partners «+ Eight times out of nine! My explanation les just here: The appalling diMeulty in swapping the partner of your joys and sor rows 1, that you ALWAYS have to trade him—or her— a hue ght unseen!” You CAN'T know what you're ged ting in the new conjugal package Until the trade {s completed and you've MARRIED him—or hert ht husbands, elght wives. out of every nine agree with Hamlet. They know there fs something about matrimony ‘which makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know nog of:* Or. as A. Lincoln might have put f, “Don't swap partners in the middle of the marria You may so further and fare worset OE. for Housewives to form a support when the fron te inverted to permit cooking to bedone on {ts surface. Resembling a golf bag {s one that has been patente carry dusting b 5 i prevent them 1 Act with c.othing. Having an sive surface, a new k v 8