Violent attacks are. constantly levelled against the so-called extravagance of Society women. a i ce ce racine Norma ala mao Everlasting the taunts at their wardrobes and larders!
On, mature consideration I think most of this invective very unfair. of course, there are in every age a few flagrant (examples of an almost fantastic extravagance: women who disdain to appear twice in the same dress, and have strange predilections for bathing in wine, and similar fantastic luxuries. But these are essentially freaks, not types, and to take them as in any way representative of a class, is as unfair as all other hasty gen—eralizations, In reality, were the wives of Labour candidates to become intimately acquainted with the budgets of the women they imagine wallowing in luxury in the "stately homes of England," they would, I am convinced, far more often be surprised at the smallness in proportion.of the sums devoted to "self." They would be surprised at the common irony of necessary drastic stinting—the lack of pocket-money whilst surrounded by price-Jess heirlooms—the so frequent, as it were, "starving in the midst of
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