Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 272, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1912 — The Cure. [ARTICLE]

The Cure.

Miss Fay Templeton, at a supper at the Ritz-Carlton in New York given in honor of her return to the stage, praised the American business man. “I have only one fault to find with him,” she said. “He works too hard. Hence, of an evening, he is sometimes a little dull. >But Intelligent wives can soon cure their husbands of overworking. I know a wife —she and her good man are in Egypt now —who came down to dinner one nigbt in a somber black robe. "Her husband—a frightfully overworked millionaire —looked at her costume and exclaimed: ‘"Why on earth, my love, are you wearing a dress like that? It’s positively half-mourning.’ “ *Of course it’s half mourning,’ she replied. ‘When you come home tram the office, don’t you always complain that you’re half dead?*”