Salt Lake Telegram | 1905-04-20 | Page 2 | Waste of Good Money

WASTE OF GOOD MONEY. The fuss started in a most unusual and unprecedented way, a way that I really am reluctant to set down. It was so contrary con-trary to all that Is natural and ordinary In domestic life. Mrs. Reddington had asked for some money for household purposes, pur-poses, and Reddington had grumbled. Hence the row. Charges of extravagance were met by counter-charges of stinginess; stingi-ness; charges of foolish wastefulness were replied to with charges of meanness: mean-ness: and so It grew warm and torrid and fulminating. And It ended, as all such discussions do, by Reddlngton's throwing a ten-dollar bill violently into his wife's lan. . "There, that leaves me with only a paltry quarter In my pocket!" he ex- claimed tragically, "But it's enough. It will buy enough arsenic to put an end to my miserable life!" "That's Just like your wicked selfishness." selfish-ness." retorted Mrs. Reddington Indignantly., Indig-nantly., at the same time gathering in the ten-spot. "You talk about my wastefulness, waste-fulness, and then you waste a lot of money, on yourself without the least necessity ne-cessity for it." ; Reddington glowered more gloomllv. "Now," continued Mrs. Reddington placidly, "why can't you give me that quarter, and go out and sit on the elevated's ele-vated's third rail?"