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Show Before and After. "Before and after pictures," said an opera singer at a Philadelphia musical, mu-sical, "afford some very striking contrasts. con-trasts. This is especially true of before be-fore and after pictures of marriage. "A man sat with pipe and book and an $18 bottle of hooch before the radiator radi-ator one night while his wife turned a three-year-old dress. "The man laid down his book and tossed off his fifth drink of hooch. His wife looked up at him calmly, and said : " 'George, when you proposed to me you said you were not worthy to undo the latchets of my shoes.' "George stared at her In amazement. "'Well, what of It?' he snarled. "'Nothing.' she answered; 'only I will say for you that whatever else yu were, you weren't a liar.' " |