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...wealth-estimated at more than $100,000-they stopped paying their bills. Their water, electricity and gas were shut off. For a while Langley tried to "make my own electricity" with an automobile generator. Then they were content to cook and heat their big house with a small kerosene stove, and fetch demijohns of water four blocks from Mount Morris Park...
...Titus Moody (Parker Fennelly) is a whey-voiced, ding-this-and-dang-that farmer with a wit hot off the general-store stove. Is his wife happy? "I don't pry into her business none." Titus' farm is "somethin' like Communism. Nobody's got nothin', but everybody's workin'." Does he like the radio? "I don't hold with furniture that talks." Titus is anemic. If cut, he will not bleed; the wound will only "hiss and pucker." Says Allen: "Titus will be getting better when the other characters have dried...
...While one harridan pinions the newcomer's wrists, the other wrenches back her head and plunges long scissors into her eye. "La! La!" she cries happily as gore spatters in all directions. When the hags have a difference of opinion, one shoves her pal against a red-hot stove...
...snow-blocked 75,000 coal-laden railroad cars. Britons shivered in unheated trams, trains and subways (most transport was drastically cut), squinted under nickering candlelight in unheated offices (there was a run on aspirin, a coal-tar derivative, for eyestrain headaches), came home to huddle around the kitchen stove and to hope that a threatened cut in gas would not add to their miseries. London's Central Electricity Board was typical of the general discomfort: it met in overcoats, by candlelight...
Back in 1897, Miss Lizzie had made $30 a month, with an extra $5 for stoking the stove in wintertime ("I thought I was a millionaire then"). Now Miss Lizzie was earning $1,900 a year. Said she happily: "If I had it to do all over again, I'd do the same thing. You can make more money at other jobs, but you can't always get the satisfaction. Children forget lots of what you taught them, but not the example you set for them...