"Don't you object to all this talk about the high cost of everything?"
"Not at all," replied the profiteer. "It prepares the mind of a
customer for what he may expect and saves argument."
"How's this, waiter? You've charged me two dollars and a half for
planked steak!"
"Sorry sir, but lumber's gone up again."
Our Government does not profess to live within its income, but only
within ours.
"Farm products cost more than they used to."
"Yes," replied Mr. Corntossel. "When a farmer is supposed to know the
botanical name of what he's raisin' an' the zoological name of the
insect that eats it, and the chemical name of what will kill it,
somebody's got to pay."
_Its Friendly Way_
"How are we to meet the high cost of living?"
"You don't have to meet it," answered the irritating person. "It
overtakes you."
"What are the luxuries of life?"
"Things that were necessities two years ago."
A couple of Philadelphia youths, who had not met in a long while, met
and fell to discussing their affairs in general.
"I understand," said one, "that you broke your engagement with Clarice
Collines."
"No, I didn't break it."
"Oh, she broke it?"
"No, she didn't break it.
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