Merrily, merrily last Christmastide laughed French friends of that quaint, rich U. S. couple, Mr. & Mrs. Fred G. Nixon-Nirdlinger of Philadelphia and Nice.
Their Christmas card was quite the funniest ever seen in France. It showed jealous old Mr. Nixon-Nirdlinger in the act of shooting his delectable, deep-dimpled young wife, the "Miss St. Louis" of 1923. Below the picture appeared this Christmas greeting:
As ye sow, so shall ye reap.
In her Nice apartment one night last week, Mrs. Nixon-Nirdlinger fired two bullets at her husband. One entered just under his left eye,...