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Show Queer Happening. ''Heat prices in France keep soaring J?her and higher," said Novelist -Hth Wharton. "Cold boiled ham, for stance, now costs ?2 a pouud. I know a French woman who vis-:el vis-:el her butcher's the other day with basketful of wooden skewers. She dumped the skewers down on the hunter and said: "I return these. Give me their "eU'ht In beef, please.' "Wh what?' gasped the butcher. ( 'They were weighed to me as ,ee7 the woman explained, 'and I fll(l for them as beef. So, naturally, that I bring them back I demand ""fr full value as beef.' " |