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Show For the Neighbors' Sake. "Extravagance," said a Pittsburgh man, "is the bane of America, and why are we extravagant? For the fun of it? No for the neighbors' sake. "I know a man who awoke very l:te one winter night and found his w.;fe just returning to the bedroom. " 'What's that loud noise T heard,' he asked, 'and what have you been do ing in the cold?' " 'It's all right, dear,' she answered. 'Go to sleep again. You see, the people peo-ple are coming back home from the opera, and I just slipped down and slammed the front door hard, so that the neighbors would think we'd been there.' " |