

Also appertaining thereunto was a card bearing the name “Mr. In the vestibule below was a letter-box into which no letter would go, and an electric button from which no mortal finger could coax a ring. It did not exactly beggar description, but it certainly had that word on the lookout for the mendicancy squad. While the mistress of the home is gradually subsiding from the first stage to the second, take a look at the home. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating. There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one's cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such close dealing implied.
