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Show KEEPS STRICT TAB ON CIGARS. Melancholy Man Tells of Drawback to Wife's Gift. "My wife," said the melancholy man, "always gives me a box of cigars on my birthday. No; 'I'm not going to say what you expect me to. They aro excellent cigars; they ought i to be, for I always give her careful Instructions In-structions aB to what to get. "Tho troublo is that sho can't seem to separate herself from tho gift. I presume It Is feminine human nature, bu sho exercises a watchful guardianship guardian-ship over that box. Sho has a notion that It ought to bo like tho widow's cruso of oil, which, as 1 recall, lasted for n considerable tlmo. Hecause tho cigars are expensive tho taking of one ot them becomes in her eyes, an event. I have tried to smuggle other cigars Into that box, but I've always been caught. Her proprietary Interest Inter-est Increases as tho number of smokes diminish. "Why don't you exert your Independence?" Inde-pendence?" the melancholy man was asked, "and tell your wife that you will smoke those cigars as you like, at homo, or take tho whole box to tho office?" "You don't know my wife," replied the melancholy man. |