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Show WORKS BOTH WAYS. He laughed. Oh, how he laughed! It was a great joke. "At last," he said, "I've found a place where they have woman sized up just right. She isn't a complete human being." "She isn't!" she exclaimed warmly. "No. In Sweden, where they've figured the problem out, a man is the unit of value and a woman wo-man counts for only half," he explained. "When a man travels ho pays full fare on the railroads and full rates at the hotels, while if he takes his wife along the two of them are charged up as only one and a half persons. You see the logical deduction?" de-duction?" "I do," she answered. "And when a woman travels alone she is charged full rate for one person, per-son, while if her husband happens to be along the rate is for one and a half persons. The husband, hus-band, therefore " He had 3topped laughing. "I always did think," he announced emphatically, emphati-cally, "that woman has a most perverted sense of humor and a most extraordinary method of reasoning." reas-oning." "But if you really want to get at relative values," val-ues," she persisted, "why, just consider the matrimonial matri-monial market. Man is quoted at a high figure in that only when he has a title, while woman brings the top price without one." "Oh, well," he said to himself, as he slammed the door behind him, "what's the use of arguing with a woman, anyhow?" Chicago Post. |