The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-29
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Mrs. Economy: Hello, Jack: is that your"
 MT. Economy: Sure Glad to hear from you. Whats up?'
 Mrs. Economy: Nothing. Just thought dd ring you up and tell you I was com Ing down town to do bit of shopping, and thought it would be real nice if you'd invite me to lunch with you. Just a plain little, every day. simple lunch like we have at home.'' ' MT. Economy: 'I'll be charmed to have you. What time will you bA down?''
 Mrs. Economy: About 1 o'clock
 Mir Economy: "All right. I'll be on sfe lookout for you. Good-by"
 Promptly at 1 o'clock Mrs Economy meets her husband at the cafe, where he usually takes his lunch, and delighted as a sixteen-year-old girl she says, look So this is where you come to lunch every day?"
 Mr. Economy: Sure. Don't you like it?'
 Mrs. Economy: Tt looks very eleg..lt and expensive. You know, with the high cost of living, we can't afford many lux uriSs"
 MT. Economy: Tt isn't particularly expensive. You can get a nice lunch here for couple of dollars
 Mrs. Economy: q am surprised at you, Jack. The idea of couple of dollars for one meal when I could buy three square meals for that amount What is it that makes your lunch so expensrSe Do you mean to say that you spend tnat for lunch every day?'
 Mir Economy: Not at all, my Scar. xI.. I Il for that if you wished it."
 Mrs Economy: "So this is the way you spend your money, is it, John Henry Morris? No wonder I can't ever have any pretty things like other women and grew-gaws and dainty feminine touches like my friends"
 Mir Economy: My dear, you don t have to buy an expensive lunch here. you know. Let's look over the menu then, and see what you'd like to eat.
 Mrs Economy: T haven't made up my mind yet. Let me see what things cost"
 MT. Economy: What do you say to a nice steak with mushrooms? You are so fond of them"
 Mrs. Economy: Why, John Henry Morris, I am Surprised at you Do you know what steak costs a pound? It's courageous UON Ialk dDOuJ naVlng SJedG for just two people for lunch. Now. if 1t was dinner, and the children were here, it would be different. As for mush- |rooms-why that's preposterous! If that's what you eat for lunch every day you arc one of the people who is responsible for running up the price of things. The idea of encouraging the meat trust by eating steak for lunch. The children k.sd have a bread and butter sandwich and cup of cocoa. Sometimes we don't have-butter"
 MT. Economy: "Why my dear wife I am distressed to hear that you have been starving yourself to death! I never dreamed that you stlnted yourself and the children like that It's true that the cost of living is something terrifA but surely I am man enough to buy food for my family three times day"
 Mrs Economy: "A pretty way to talk when you growl and snap like a mad c>' at the end of the month when the bills come in. Why, if had steak and mush- rooms for lunch every day I couldn't live in the same house with you when you got the bills But then that's the way No matter what a woman does to hep her husband along. it's never appreciat- ed She might as we'll go ahead and en- joy herself. He'll spend the money any way"
 Mir Economy: Well, let's forget it for