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Show High Cost of Living. There Is a little girl in Washington who has very decided notions with reference ref-erence to the "high cost of living," whereof we hear so much. This child has a weekly allowance which her mother employs, rather Ingeniously, In-geniously, as a means of correction. For every little naughtiness the culprit cul-prit is fined In other words, her allowance al-lowance Is diminished. One morning the child was In a peculiarly pe-culiarly contrary mood. She did something some-thing out of the way and was fined a cent. In a few minutes she erred again, and a second fine was Imposed. For the third time the offense was committed. "Now, Marie," said the mother, "1 shall fine you two cents this time, and if you disobey again I shall make it four cents." "Dear me," sighed Marie, "I think this is a pretty expensive place to live in." |