HE ASKED FOR IT. The following bit of repartee must either have cleared the air or brought on a storm. Which result followed is not. stated. An officer known by his friends to be a rather "close" man has had many a passage-at-nrms with his wife by reason of that very closeness. On one occasion a friend had the misfortune to enter just as the pair were ending an argument touching some question of household expenditure. The friend was just in time to hear the husband sav : " Marie, you cannot hoodwink me in these matters. Do you think that I have lived all these years for nothing?" " I shouldn't be at all surprised," was the crisp reply.
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Evening Star, Issue 15394, 19 January 1914, Page 8
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117Page 8 Advertisements Column 2 Evening Star, Issue 15394, 19 January 1914, Page 8
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