But my husband really did have money.
He cays that this year was even. worse than most because he couldn't go house-boating and avoid the Christmas cabaret stampede. husband always talks like this at breakfast, but I really think he en-Joyod the noise-makers on Christmas Eve as much as anyone. Anyway, I had to ask him once whether he didn't think that ought to be Inst whiskey soda. And he said, "Christmas only comes once 'a year, darling," which shows how frightfully inconsistent men are.
I wish I had remembered to remind him rf that Christmas-only-coming-once-a-year ide at breakfast when he was talking about the impossibility of keeping out of debt! in a place like Shanghai—where everybody goes cabaret-mad "just because it's a holiday. But I won't forget to remind him of it at New Year's which also only comes once 'a year—Jill O'Lantern,
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