Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1893-07-16
REST F0R THE TIRED
Fielding Has sympathy for Those
Who Can't Get Away
70 ENJOY THE coof sRftzts
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. Wkosr sssssnes II siss Counssy
ga Whas Has Come of Them.


wichea In among cold drixxie> and raw
east winsis- ! remelnber that 10 made
me think about summer vacation end
sweet country air. Such thoughts were
naturally suggested not only by the
heat. but by the excavation In tho
street In front of my house. ! noticed
that when the street IL 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 closed tho windows Of
our hat and thoughtfully plugged tho
cracks with oalsun. Then l killed the
tacilli that had already got In with .
club which ! keep for the purpose;
after which said To Maude: We will
begin right now to save money In
order that we r,ay get cut Of town for
the whole summer"
She made few rapid calculations
with the aid of u pencil and paper. IL
IL wonderful how quickly a woman can
figure out the cost of eleven dresses
while a man will study for months on
scheme for standing of a tailor ON
a ten dollar suit of clothes Then she
said: We shall need To save 1se hum
drcd dollars at least, by the LIST Of
July"
The LIST Of june said I. warmly.
You will not catch me spending the
month of June in New York city"
I'VE cant do IT," said she. You
need suit Of clothes yourself"
Well" said I. here's forty dollars
which intended To give To Taylor &
Cutter. Their collector has formed
the habit of sleeping ON the mat before
the door of my Office. 1t Is injuring
his health and wearing out the mat.
However. rs we must save money, l
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."
Iwonder how many men made SINH
lar resolutions ON the first hot day. We
all know how much nice. long vaca-
ton would benefit US. Even supposing
that Il would cost us considerable
money and would bring the misery of
hope deferred Ia our creditors, we are
sure that we should feel 30 much more
energetic afterwards that we could get
the money back and talk the creditors
into quite cheerful mood The trouble
Is that we need the money first How
many things we could do IL we could
only turn the elementary industrial
processes hind side before. II would.
for instance. he easy enough To save
money IL we could have il first and save
il afterwards.
lem all my life. When l was boy
the other boys all had fret saws. How
they got them I don't know. think
they must have stolen them from one
another. They sawed out various or
naincntal articles and sold them for
money enough to buy the powder with
which they blew their fingers of ON
the Fourth Of July. OF course l earn
estly desired To enter so attractive a
field Of labor. So went To- my natu-
raj protector and asked him for fret
saw.
why don't you earn the money! he
inquired. desiring 10 awaken in me the
commercial instinct
There's 40 way of earning money In
this town." said !. except 10y saving
out brackets and selling EN-"
Understanding my weakness as this
apeciote reveals II. Mau,le had little
h.,,,e of getting out Of town ON June 1.
She knew that could earn a summer
vacation In October. but never In the
spring. However. there were signs of
great resolution In my soul. Under
it, influence worked very hard for n
whole day Then | calculated how
much should make at that rate by
June and found that II was more
than enough. The making of this cal
culation was all the work did on the
second day. and the result was 40 salts