Wordsworth's "We are Seven" at long last justified in part, Italy Council_of Ministers has' adopted Signor "Mussolini's proposal to exempt from all taxation the fathers or heads of numerous families or dependents who are, oF have been, employed by the government, civil or military, provi have' at least seven boys charge, The same exemption will be granted to other male adults who, without belonging to the specified categories, have ten or more male children dependent on them. One mistakes this for the conventional encouragement of large families until one notes that the heneficinries in every case must be male, which with LI" Duce's, nowa views on femininity the advantages of work or having worked, for the gov ment are manifest, as it means three mouths less to feed while enjoying the xd exemption. This brings us to the crux of the matter.
better for the Italian citizen rear or to adopt a brood of stalwa Jdaughter, and pay them? Considering the average income and the expense of feeding and clothing a family of seven or more, we think it better to pay taxes, particularly in view of the added anxiety, under the proposal, to the husband who is waiting to be informed whether it's 'a boy ora girl. It all reminds the writer of an experience of his with vegetable garden. He had vowed he would no longer submit to the extortions of marketman, and proceeded to raise the usual "rabbi food" ete, for himself, The net result of his labour was a solitary tomato of a poisonous green hue, which, when conservatively estimated, cost him no less than Mex. $52
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