Guest—No, I guess not. You see, I’m a member of the Board of Visitors for the Old Woman’s Home up where I live.
Invaluable
CRAWFORD—Is he a good lawyer?
Crabshaw—Sure. He knows how every law on the statute books can be evaded.
Another View of the Simple Life
BY ZENOBIA COX
FOR the past few months we have had a deluge of optimism. From various sources we are told that man ought to be happy. “Whatever is, is good,” is the handwriting on the wall. Content is preached from what George Eliot called “that Goshen of Mediocrity,” the pulpit; and politicians publish their elastic statistics, proving prosperity and content. This proselyting Optimism reached its height in the advent of Charles Wagner to our hospitable shores and in the thrusting of his little book, “The Simple Life,” under the nose of the public.