office-supply business. But don't it sometimes almost make you question the workings of Providence when you see the mysterious way in which disease smites down the just with the unjust?
Why, my wife went on sniveling and subject to constant headaches for more than six weeks after the doctor said he'd got her all cured of the flu!
So I said to her, "Honey," as I often call her, "what say you and me and Delmerine—"
Delmerine, that's my daughter's name. Don't know, by the way, that I've introduced myself. Lowell Schmaltz is my name—
Funny! Whole lot of people take Schmaltz for a German name, but of course as a matter of fact, when you look into the matter, it isn't German at all but Pennsylvania Dutch, which is almost the same as saying New England Yankee and—
Well, I figured Delmerine could get away all right, because she's finished high school.
I'd asked her if she wanted to go to college—I could perfectly well afford to send her, of course—but she thought it over and she felt more
