Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 246, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1919 — TAX EXPERTS LOSING SLEEP [ARTICLE]

TAX EXPERTS LOSING SLEEP

Question, “When Is a Girl a Miss?” Is Puzzling— Bureau of internal Revenue. The other day Lew Hahn, executive -secretary of the National Retail l>ry Goods association, took the joy out of life* for' the experts of the bureau of internal revenue when he asked whether corsets were underwear. Now he has gone and done it again, the query this time being:, “When does a girl become a miss?" Framers of the new revenue tax law Included In the list of taxables “women’s and misses’ wearing apparel.” Experts of the bureau, Mr. Hahn says, have Informed retailers that no tax Is to be collected on wearing apparel for girls. " "IT . __ I T Retailers say there are hundreds and hundreds of misses, and quite a few married women, who are so petite that they can still wear, and therefore buy, girls’ clothes. Does the fact that such articles of clothing are to be worn by women of mature years change the nature of the apparel In the eyes of the law; or do garments designed for girls remain girls’ wear, regardless of the age of those who buy and wear them? This Is the puzzle Mr. Haha has put up to the bureau experts.