Show AND MATRIMONY man alan is is like a napkin the more neatly the housewife doubles him the more carefully she lays him on the shelf neither can a man once doubled know how often he may be doubled not only his wife folds him in in two but every child quarters him into a new double till ni what hat was a wide and handsome substance large enough for anything m in reason dwindles into a pitiful square i that will not cover coer one platter all puckers and creases smaller and smaller with every double with every double doable a new nev crease then I 1 hen my friend comes the washing bill bill and besides all the hurts burts one receives in the mangle consider the hourly wear arid and tare of the linen press in short Shak shakespeare speare vindicates the single life and depicts the double in in the famous line which is ia no doubt intended to be allegorical of marriage double double toil and trouble besides no single man can be far fairly aly called poor what what double man can with certainty be called rich richa A single man can lodge in in a garret and dine on a herring nobody knows nobody cares let him marry and he invites ini ites the world to witness where lie be lodges and how lie he dines the first necessary a wife demands mana is is the most ruinous ruinous the most in indefinite superfluity it it is 13 gentility according to ft bat I 1 her neighbors call gen teel gentility commences with the honeymoon it is its shadow and lengthens as the moon declines when the honey coney is all gone your bride says we can have our tea without sugar when quite alone love but in case gentility drop in heres a bill for silver sugar tongs why im single |