THE GERMAN VIEW.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1528, 28 March 1916, Page 4

THE GERMAN VIEW.

There is nothing so false, according to the Frankfurter Zeitung, as false economy. Spend all you can is its advice; let the money circulate ; it is bound to do good to some one. But there can be discerned an undercurrent of sarcasm in this counsel ; “To be economical, it is not necessary that we should on all occasions tighten our pursestrings. This is nothing but false economy, and is as much to be condemned as extravagance; therefore we say to those who are able to afford luxury, help to circulate the money that is so badly needed, and purchase expensive fish, preserves and fruit, leaving the cheaper articles at the disposal of the less well-to do. .“Luxurious women who cannot do without their make-up, need not economise in this respect. Let them provide themselves with even

more plentiful allowances of cosmetics than they did before the war, only let them make sure that the articles in question are produced in Germany.

“The very consciousness that there is no necessity fof them to sacrifice their powder-puffs, their lip salves, and their rouge will add to the cheerfulness of these self-indulgent ladies, and the revived spirits which that knowledge will occasion will communicate itself to the less favourably situated and influence them to their good. “He who can pay without feeling the effect let him buy all the good and pretty things that help to brighten life, but he should not help to heighten the prices by extravagant use of those article? which are indispensable to the existence of the masses.”