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Show What Better Proof Than This Could Be Wanted? Edward A. Filene, the Boston merchant mer-chant and economist, had been proving prov-ing at the Cosmopolitan club that mass production is an incomparable benefit to mankind. "But why keep on with these proofs?" he wound up. "The thing is as evident on its face as Smith's marriage. " 'You say Smith is married, but what proof have you?' an employer asked. " 'Well, sir,' said an employee, 'I saw Smith pushing a baby-coach last Sunday morning, and there was a young woman on one side of him and an old woman on the other, and as I passed, the young woman said, 'You've come home in that condition eight Saturday nights running, you cad.' And then the old woman chipped in with, 'Do, for goodness' sake, Ethel, make him put another thousand on his life before his liver's liv-er's gone completely." Detroit News. |