Life — January 5, 1893 — page 57: what you’re looking at

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Brownleigh (visiting sriends in the country) Johnnie: NEITHER DO We. I DON'T OFTEN GET SUCH A GOOD Tue} Yes, What were you celebrating ? THE Woman (brightening up, after a moment's silence): Why, of course, [thought I told you. You know, I hadn't seen Mrs. Golightly since THE May: Mrs. Gaybody. Tie Woman (sterndy) yuse all the evenii There you go ag I thought you decided it was My dear, if I did not know that you have I should think you had been drinking I want to know what you were celebrating. I have been trying to tell you that ever since I got met Mrs. been in the THe Max THe Woman home, but you won't let me get a word in edgewise. 1 Gaybody— THe Man: Great Scott! THe Woman: Will you allow me to speak? Gaybody, whom [had not seen since our marriage. That's the — L met Mrs.—er— She, naturally, ratulated me, and then insisted upon celebrating it over a little quiet dinner THE MAN (considerably mollified): And was it our marnage, dear celebrating with your friend ? THe Woman: Of course it was over such an event in our liv ‘ou w Hf you object to my rejoicing . why — Tite MAN (putting his arms around her): No, dearest, not at all, only — Only you are sorry that I should feel happy about it, Not at all, my darling, but— But what ? We won't say an: (Kisses and Curtain.) EM. Graham Dewey Tue Woman THe M. Tue Woman more about it KEEP iT IN THE STATE. T is suggested that a speedway for drivers of fast horses should begin at 161st St. and run North. But as the proposed speedway is for the use of New Yorkers, and not for Albanians or Trojans, why not have it within a day's journey of the city proper. Anything that begins at 161st St. would be useful for the residents of towns along the upper Hudson, but it would be a cruel joke on the New Yorker. If he must take a rail tide before he can begin his drive a few miles more or less would not matter, and the new speedway might begin at Poughkeepsie, where land is cheaper. comicbooks.com