Life — October 21, 1920 — page 8: what you’re looking at

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OH, ALICE, WE'VE GOT TO PUT ANOTHER . WORM ON MY I100K, Alice: SOME OF THE GIRLS AREN'T HERE, DO YOU THINK FOUR OF US COULD bo IT? Price-Slashing What You Read in the Papers Fisherwoman “THE wave of price-cutting which is sweeping over the coun- try has hit the clothing trade. Investigations made hy a reporter of the Daily Digest show that merchants all over the city have reduced prices on their stock of men’s clothing from ten to forty per cent. during the last week. “*T do not know where it will stop,’ said Horace W. Bugle- heimer, head of the Clothiers’ Association, at his office, 1489 Ditweiler Building.” What Your Clothing Dealer Tells You Well, yes, in certain cheaper lines. It is but just at present, what with the “ Price-cutting ? hound: to come, of course; new freight rates and the exorbitant demands of labor all ¢ a little more now than the over the country, our fall suits Now, here is something in a blue 1 would advise your get- s it is sure to do when ses into effect.” were last year at this time. cheviot that I think you would like. ting it now before the price goes up, the new express drivers’ wage scale What You Read in the Papers “A sudden drop in the price of haberdashery is predicted within the next twenty-four hours by the Department of Agri- culture at Washington. A report made public to-day says that the wave of price-reduction which has been tearing across the country is due to reach New York late this evening, after which it_will probably be possible to buy neckties for one-third of yesterday's pri What Your Haberdasher Tells You “Yes, we have reduced, prices in certain lines, but I hardly think that they are what you would want. They are all right, *LIFE-: of course, but you see for yourself that a tie made of linoleum won't stand the wear and tear that one of these scaris over here, for instance, will. Now these, of course, are a little more now than they were last week, but you must take into considera- tion the new freight rates and the exorbitant demands of labor all over the country, and add that on to the price. And at that, do you know what our profit on qne scarf like that is? Just eight mills! Yes, sir, eight mills profit on cach nine-dollar f. How many, please?” What You Read in the Papers “Food prices have begun to drop, and the end is not yet in sight. ration made of the market prices of staple commodities shows t relief from the high cost of living is The following table of reductions in price An inves: really on the way. in foodstuffs is significant: Per Cen Reducti Commodity Lentils wiss chard ......08 GORDIE cc ccccesseenses 67 Kidney beans Bamboo sprouts . Paprika What Your Grocer Tells You “Oh, yes. Prices have gone down in a great many lines. Parsley, for instance, and rock candy. You don't use parsley or rock candy? That's too bad. Our lentils are much cheaper now than t were last week. No lentils? How about be No? Well, that’s too bad. Butter? I'm sorry to say that I have to ask a little more for my creame butter to-day. The new freight rates, you know No, there hasn't been much fluctuation there. The orange-pickers just got an increase in pay, you know. Bre Well, no, they haven't come down on the bread yet. Ha, ha, ha, ha, That's right!” boo sprouts? Oranges Robert C. Benchley. Mistaken Identity OTHER (after visitor had gone): made you stick out your tongue at our pastor? Oh, dear! Bony : Bobby, what on earth Why, muvver, I just showed it to him. He said, “Littul man, how do you feel? "—and I thort he was a doctor! PROHIBITION has added its burden to the load of the city editor of the daily newspaper, as he is no longer able to tell a cub reporter where to find leading citizens by indicating what saloons they frequent. “WELL, A HOUSE IS A HOUSE THESE DAYS, AND HE AT LEAST HAS A ROOF OVER HIS HEAD” comicbooks Mord