The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-09-20

Scene ]. (Ciub cafe. Tanker and I
Lisson at table. Tanker expounds.)
Yes, as I was saying, my wife doesn't
know the meaning of the word save.
She's always spending money for
something she doesn't need. Have |
another cigar, old man. l put all |
1 the ready money ] had into a car |
/ business hours-and what does she
| do but up and buy a pianol She
! doesn't know one note from another,
and naturally that means . course CT
| lessons. Guess we'd better have jSsst
another little bottle of that wine,
hadn't WEI I've just been moving
into larger and better Offices. / got
tired of that dingy little hole / was
I'm. Help business5 Well, | don't
know about that part of it. Bush
ness was all right in the old place.
Still, though I'd like change even
liz the rent is a whole lot higher.
We'll, the point is, no sooner do
move than she begins to worry the
life out of me about moving out OF
our fat into bigger, more expensive
one further downtown. And she had
mo earthly reason except that she
didn't like the neighborhood we were
i'm. Then, as soon as we got moved,
she began to buy ali sorts Of high
priced furniture And she knew as
well as / did that ! had just put
small fortune into new ofhce fixtures.
She said our old stuff wasn't good
enough for the new location. That's
the way it goes. / do all the ecoro-
lmizine. No, no, old chap, this ones
on me.
The whole thing Is enough to dis
courage a man. A woman ought to
he willing to do some of the saving,
hut no. ilsst as soon as / think I'm
beginning to get on my feet, she
runs me way into debt again tor
some kind of nonsense. She speEdg
AN enormous amount on clothes.
like to see q woman dress well but
there's limit. o yes, / like to dress
well myself, but I'll bet don't spend
haN as much as she does on clothes.
ters. And the candy bills she runs
upl You'd naturally suppose . full-
grown woman could exist without
candy every n1inute. My turn aeGtn-
old man. And try another OF these
cigars. Yes, they sell for quarter.
but / get them By the boz
III tell you what made me mora
disgusted than anything else. and
that's a brand-new proposition she
spranR on me last night. She already
has a cook and a housematd, and now
what does she want but butler
Think of it, on my mcconnell Why.
we'll simply go to smash II nan
isn't called pretty soon. / told nel
we couldn't afford It. and she asked
me WHY I didn't discharge the chauf-
feur. Said I'd learned how to rlsI
the ear. and didn't need him ans
more. suppose there is somethins
n that. but who wants &c be arimee
10 III the time from naonkeyaR with
3 lot Of greasy machinery SorT3
vof,'re going. Let's have q little drini
6rat Cood-by. II you hear Of mi
Going bankrupt, remember / propbe
sled it. So-long.
Soane II. a groeery-store- la.
5~er still expoundiag.) - Good Lord
F;ftv cents for butter? When ] say
Il On the bill told my wife It mus
he a mistake. And forty-eiaht 10
e0rsl No wonder 3 man can't re
along these days. Somebody's in WA
to rob him from the time he set
up till he goes to bed. xou afen.
TO blame for the pricssE Msyoe nc'
but who isf They all say the sam
thjng-eoraeone else is at the bottor
Of II. All y can say Is. it's about tim
Something was done. People of mod
crate incomes are all going down an
out unless somebody gets busy Dc
fore long and Strengthens things on
: H+tIe. It's q case Of pinch an
rcrirnp and save all the time.
We'll / wont be able 70 pay II
whole bin this tipDe. Some OF Il vi
nave to go over tn next month. II
T-ord Knows how I'm going to NAL
Both ends meet II yea keep on hftin
prices. no sooner see chance
letting On to my fest than up got
everything another notch It's &c
ring so a man has to be a millionail
IN order to keep the game goin
exit, still talking. l-Vvaiter 6. Dot