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Show For the Neighbors' Sake. "Extriiviigance," .said a IMtlsburgli tuan, "is the bane of America, and w hy aro we extravagant? For the fun of It? No for the neighbors' sai:e. "I know a man who awoke very late one winter night and found his wife just returning to the bedroom. " 'What's that loud noise I bean!,' he asked, 'and what have you beeu doing do-ing in the cold?' " 'It's all right, dear,' she answered. 'Go to sleep again. YAu see, the people peo-ple are coming back home from he opera, and I just s);pe-. :lowu and slammed the front loor hard, so that the neighl ors would think we'd been there.' " |