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Show IL "No man," said Jerome K. Jerome, "should marry unless he is by nature a 'good provider' unless without a twinge he can hand forth money right and left. "Some men can in a sunny, cheerful way spend $10 or $15 on a dinner in a fashionable restaurant, restau-rant, while they become morose, sour and fretful j for the future when they are obliged to give their wives a dollar or two for the day's meat. "These men should remain single. Otherwise they will make such husbands and fathers as my old friend, Crust. "Crust's daughter said one afternoon, in a tone of unutterable surprise: " 'Papa went away quite gay and cheerful this morning.' "Mrs. Crust made an exclamation of annoyance. annoy-ance. "'That reminds me,' she said; 'I forgot to ask him for any money.'" |