Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1916 — Those Poor Rich People. [ARTICLE]

Those Poor Rich People.

Pity the poor millionaires! For the frugal wife, 5 cents now buys as big a loaf as it did two years ago, but $1,1)00 doesn’t buy as big a blue foxskin coat —no, not by half. The boiled potatoes on the modest dinner table are rather cheaper than they, were last winter; but when the poor millionaires are ®ecessity to buy white fox furs hubby advances’ 65 per cent more money for them than he would have done at this time in 1913. ■? —-———— Beaver, another essential to plutocratic happiness, has risen much more .than sugar or lamb chops. Indeed, UneleSam -tells -us that the whole fur famfly is roosting on a higher limb than ever before. Luxuries rise and fair rapidly with the amount of loose change in mlllionaire bank accountsj but... so far as prices go, the ..poor man’s dinner pail can scarcely tell a financial feast from a financial famine.—Philadelphia Publie Ledger.