Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 124, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1916 — $10,000,000 FOR POODLES [ARTICLE]

$10,000,000 FOR POODLES

Mission Union Speakers Say Hat Bill Would Support Defenses. New Orleans, La.—The most astounding extravagance of the women of America is that we spend $10,000,000 each year for poodles. Mrs. R. L. Baker told this to the del egates to the annual meeting of the Women’s International Missionary Union in describing how American wom.en make the money fly. She continued: “We spend more for hats yearly than it takes to support the army ana navy, and several other Federal departments. We also spend $107,000,000 for soft and cooling drinks and $187,000,000 for candy. It is time to call a halt and to return to the sane ways of our mothers.”