The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-26
THOUGHTS ON VACATION.
Fielding Expresses Sympathy for
Those Who Can't Get Away.
Ee Explains His Own Elaborate Plans for
Whole Summer In the Country and
Tells What Has Come of Them
Up to Date.
rcopYn1cHr. 1891


east winds. | remember that it made
me think about summer vacation and
sweet country air. Such thoughts were
naturally suggested not only by the
heat, but by the excavation in the
street in front of my house. l noticed
that when the street is dug up the
weather is always what Prof. Koch
might call fertile" Thus we have no
excuse for forgetting the corpses of old
Jobs which lie buried in municipal cor
ruption.
On that day I closed the windows Of
our fat and thoughtfully plugged the
cracks with oakum. Then I killed the
bacilli that had already got in with a
club which I keep for the purpose;
after which said to Maude: I'VE will
begin right now to save money in
order that we may get out of town for
the whole SUNNI err
She made few rapid calculations
with the aid of a pencil and paper. 1t
is wonderful how quickly a woman can
figure out the cost of eleven dresses
while man will study for months on
a scheme for standing off tailor on
a ten dollar suit of clothes. Then she
said: 'We shall need to save five hun
dred dollars at least, by the 1st of
July"
"The LIST of june" said 1, warmly.
tsYou viii not catch me spending the
month of June in New York city"
1--WE can't do it," said she. you
need suit of clothes yourself"
"Well," said l, ''here's forty dollars
which intended to give to Taylor 6,
Cutter. Their collector has formed
the habit of sleeping on the mat before
the door of my Office. It is injuring
his health and wearing out the mat.
However, as we must save money,
will buy suit somewhere else with
the forty cases, and thus, according to
your figures, we shall need but four
hundred and sixty dollars by June l."
/ wonder how many men made SINH
lar resolutions on the first holiday. We
all know how much a nice, long vaca-
ton would benefit us. Even supposing
that it would cost US considerable
money and would bring the misery of
hope deferred to our creditors, we are
sure that we should feel SO much more
energetic afterwards that we could get
the money back and talk the creditors
into quite a cheerful mood. The trouble
is that we need the money first. How
many things we could do if we could
only turn the elementary industrial
processes hind side before. 1t would,
for instance, be easy enough to save
if we could have it first and save
it afterwards.
have been wrestling with that prob
lem all my life. When l was a boy
the other boys all had fret saws. How
they got them l don't know. / think
they must have stolen them from one
another. They sawed out various or
articles and sold them for
money enough to buy the powder with
which they blew their fingers off on
the Fourth of July. Of course earn
escly desired to enter so attractive
field of labor. So went to my natu-
raj protector and asked him for a fret
saw.
why don't you earn the money!" he
inquired, desiring to awaken in me the
instinct.
There's no way of earning money in
this town." said l, Except by saving
out brackets and selling EN-
Understanding my weakness as this
anecdote reveals it, Maude had little
hope of getting out of town on June 1.
She knew that could earn summer
vacation in October, but never in the
spring. However. there were signs of
a great resolution in my soul. Under
It's influence l worked very hard for
whole day. Then / calculated how
much / should make at that rate by
June and found that it was more
than enough. The making of this cal
was all the work 1 did on the
second day, and the result was so salts