"Her happiness is not elastic. Viola's husband wants to stretch felicity out like gum." From the
Duluth Evening Herald, 1909. The headline makes it sound like the husband is the villain, but the wife lovelessly married him merely to acquire information for a novel she planned to write, distastefully likening to the stretching of gum his willingness to remain married to her long-term. See
The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.