SOCIAL ECONOMY.
Mrs. Scrooge. "I'm writing to ask the Browns to meet the Joneses here at Dinner, and to the Joneses to meet the Browns. We owe them both, you know."
Mr. Scrooge. "But I've heard they've just Quarrelled, and don't speak!"
Mrs. Scrooge. "I know. They'll refuse, and we needn't give a Dinner Party at all!"