A MEAN ADVANTAGE.
I think Fve got rather the meanest husband in Detroit," exclaimed a little woman on ( the car." • " " ■ Her friend asked her to explain, and she continued— * ' • • ' "I" found that he was smoking fifty cents* worth of cigars per dayi • and I got Jiim ~ to agree to give me as much pin-money per week as the cigars cost. He stuck to it one week," • ' ' " And then, what?" He bought himself a clay pipe and a pound of tenifcent smoking tobacco, and my income is cat down to two cents a week."
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Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7991, 8 October 1887, Page 4
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93A MEAN ADVANTAGE. Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7991, 8 October 1887, Page 4
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