The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1951-04-05
ECONOMY In BUCKINGHAM

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ECONOMY IN BUCKINGHAM
("King George is finding 10 so
bard to lire on aUbat be gets thai
the Government is going to take
ome of the expenses off bis hands
and giVe bin q raise."-NeWs
Hem) .,
Queen.-George, I just can't cu'
down much more; things are 50
high.
King.-You've just got to, my
dear, and so have /. The high cost
Of living knocks a frightful hole in
my $1,148,0 900 a year in revenues
and privy purse.
Queen.-Why don't you ask for a
raise?
King.-I did, but you know how a
King feels about mentioning money
these days.
Queen. - Everybody everywhere
has been demanding wage raises,
You haven't asked for one since
we were married.
King.-I have to be careful,
honey. If other people don't gel
a raise they can go On strike, stage
demonstrations and break windows
You and I couldn't do that. =
Queen.-(A strange look in he1
eyes).-How I'd love to break a
window sometime. Why should the
common people have all the fun?
King.-We shall have to scrimp a
little on household expenses.
Queen.-Don't look at me What
about you economizing?
King.-I've laid up the large
coach-and-four for the season And
a new Stone of Scone can wait.
Couldn't you save on phone bills,
heat and light?
I Queen.-If you expect me, the
Queen of England, to 60 around
turning off lights and radiators,
George, you're crazy.
King.-What about groceries?
Queen.-I suppose we could
switch butchers.
King.-Are we using enough cold
cuts?
Queeu.-I simply won't start rum
ming around to delicateSsen shops
to save a few pennies.
King.-Could we save anything by
eating out?
Queen.-Don't ever let anybody
else hear you ask a question like
that, George. Start eating out and
even your $1,148, 900 won't last long.
King.-Couldn't we have a little
outdoor barbecue now and then,
just us -. self-sacrifice and paper
plates, you know?
Queen.-rn wager Eddie and
Wallie n not eating on paper
plates.
King.-Now look here, you prom
ised not to bring them up. They
have to economic, too.
Queen.-Not from what I read in
the papers.
King.-How many quarts of milk
Is the milkman leaving now?
Queen.-I haven't an idea. 1t
would be a fine thing if some news
man snapped me at the back door
counting milk bottles.
King.-I don't want to be I'm
reasonable, dear, but you've got to
help trim a little here and there.
Queen Gas the King absentmind-
edly allows his cigarette to burn a
hole on a piano).-There. It's
things like that which run up bills
around this house.
King Gas the phone rings).-That
was Winnie, he's coming over to
dinner.
Queen.-There goes the budget
idea. You know how he eats.
CAN YOU REMEMBER-Away
back when any American young
man could prove without an in
dictment and jury trial that he
wasn't working for the overthrow
Of his government?
There are housewives who
spend so much time listening to
soap operas that they forget to
buy soap.
It has now become a reasonable
question whether those tremendous
explosions were from Las Vegas or
a White House press conference.
What 80 country needs most at
the moment is a system of controls
for double talk.
A horse called "Warmonger" won
at Hialeah at $28.70 the other day,
and for once Shudda Haddim col
lected on a perfect bunch. He had
been reading a speech by a Russian
delegate to U.N. the morning of
the race.
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