Life — April 23, 1896 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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333 HYSICIAN (examiner for Life Insurance Co.): How old are you? IRISHMAN: Twanty-five. ‘‘Your parents are living, 1 suppose?” “No, sur, they're dead.” ‘What did they die of?” “Ould age, sur.” ** How old were they?” “Party, sur.” **Do you think a_ person, of forty dies of old age?” “In the ould country people die young of ould age. AN EXCEPTION. HE LANDLADY: That Roentgen discovery is a wonderful thing. . New BoarDER (glan- cing at the chicken). Yes, madam, but it isn’t always necessary. FRUITS OF ECONOMY. \ Eaves RYTON EARLY: I ~ thought you were “SEE HERE, MABEL, YOU MUST GET OVER THIS SPREE. I WANT YOU TO POSE FOR AN ANGEL IN 4 going to save so much MEMORIA. WINDOW, AND YOU DON'T LOOK A BIT LIKE IT THIS MORNING.” money by resigning from the club. SHALL THE BACHELOR PAY FOR HIS DINNER? Minos Coyne: Well, HEN a hostess invites a bachelor to dinner, she expects him j just look , how to acknowledge the favor by calling upon her soon after. If much I'm not in he fails to do this, she feels he is not treating her properly ; that he is rude and ungrateful. She forgets that the indebtedness is as | much hers as his. She forgets that whereas his presence, or the presence of some other bachelor, was a necessity at her table, it was by no means a necessity to him; that he could have procured a much more digestible dinner at any first-class restaurant, or at his home, if he has one ; and that he would not have eaten it between two women of uncertain interest, to whom he must either listen or talk while trying to enjoy it. Her proposition in inviting him is: ‘*You may cat at my house a messy, complicated dinner that you would never think of ordering for yourself, if you will pay for it by coming around and talking with me some afternoon when you can't afford the time and don't feel like it,” If the bachelor is too poor to purchase a dinner elsewhere, or so stupid and generally undesirable that no one enjoys his presence, she would indeed be justified in exacting payment. But this is not the bachelor our hostess invites. She invites the man whose com- pany is of more value than the nourishment she offers. She is well aware of this and she should not insist on his paying for his food. comicbooks.com