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Show SHE WAS WORTH MORE. New Yorker's Proper Appreciation of His Wife's Value. In the midst of their busy and troublous trou-blous experience, where pathos, tears, perplexity and dlstrncllon confront them In ever changing combinations, there Homctlmes comes a gleam of fun to the att(irnes of the Ia-boI Aid sod-et) sod-et) In their East Side branch office not ionic ago the) were lm estimating & claim preferred by a poor woman aRoln't Fin express company for dam-apes dam-apes to her furniture. Ily the rule of the HOclty no applicant who can be rated as worth nt least $100 is entitled to sue tlirnviKh them nt. a poor perron, and the woman was being questioned on tho point She cocld not speak English and her husband acted ns Interpreter In-terpreter 'Is jour wife worth $100?" tho attorney at-torney asked lilm Tho man stared lilanMj for a moment mo-ment of painful doubt. He thought It was nn offr to huy his wife. Doubling up his lists pugnaciously, ho shouted: 'Meln (iatt! Ins dls what yo do? I wouldn't chance her for $10,000!"--Npw York Piess |