The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-08-04
SPENDING A PLEASANT SUMNER.


A Cluhmnn's Cheerful Chat About uls Place
on the Scashore.
~ learn something new every day about
there being tricks in all trades, said the
oluhman mourrfully. lie was sitting In
the reading room Of his club, waiting for
bedtime to come, and he looked rs II nc
had lost his last friend
Is it your pondcring over the tricks
that keeps you away from home SO latcf'
asked his friend CHANGING at an empty
glass and pile of cigar ashes
Home said the other cynlcally. 81
haven't home"
"Graciousl' exclaimed his friend sym
pathctically. What have you done with
it,"
The clubmnn struck the holl In a dcsper-
ate way.
It's gone" he answered in tragic
voice His eye was not wild, ana his hair
was properly arranged, SO that there was
no reason to suspect him ON that score Of
sudden manih. bat there was something
strange ana uminuus in his hammer
a. have been the victim of 'bunko
game, " he said, with theatrical gesture
81 have been hmAocd out Of my home ana
family. The gold brick game, the green
been n victim Of them all"
That's too bad, " said his friend, sit
ting down cautiously and carefully study
ing this new form of insanity.
"Too bodh cried the other ITS the
worst crime of ages Now, just listen to
this. My family have gone for the summer
TO the New J,rscv coast We have rented
a nice place down there, and they enjoy il
Y,,ttah ,tsLpt, Al rYt n,nlu
the wind doesn't blow hurricanes, or the
fog isn't so thicl, that you can saw it into
blocks, or it isn't so cold that you freeze to
death in your winter ilanncls."
He stopped TO mediate over the charms
of the climate there.
But we can put up with that" he
said for, as told you, it's good place
when none Of those things happen-and
sometimes they don't happen.
There is my Communication ticket
though. l did not think much about that
when took the place. Well, they charged
me lot Of money for that, and they made
me take it for the season. You see what
a fine arrangement that is. If we give up
the place at the end of month, we keep
right on paying our Communication rates
in fact it is all paid up now. That IL
part Of this beautiful arrangement. You
pay i'm advance.
"Oh, there is another thing about this
Communication ticket, 1t begins with the
calendar month, and as we went down
there in the middle of month | had the
pleasure of being held up every day for
$3.50 until the 1st.
But how about losing your homc2"
"Oh, what l have been telling you
about the communication ticket is only pre-
liminary-part Of the bunko game Now
we come to the family" Again he rang
the bell desperately
when | took the place charming
home by the sea, they advertised it
there was to be, Of course, u change in
the time table, a summer schedule. Well
the summer schedule las gone into effect
ana you see the result. | am what / call
a horrible example. If don't catch an
early afternoon boat, | can't get there at
all. l am very busy man. | think /
have succeeded in catching it three times
this season. If l do catch it, this is the
programme the next day: Two hours late
at my Office, time enough when | reach it
to say good afternoon to every one, to
sign IA check for some summer resort cx-
pcnsc, grab my hat, bolt for the elevator
run like deer for my boat and miss It,
That's the way it goes. It's beautiful
life. | am such II stranger TO my wife
that she has fallen into the habit of call
ing me Mr., ms she used to do before we
were engaged. | have to beg my oldest
boy to shake hands with me; my oldest
girl, the apple of my eye, doesn't know
me at all and won't speak TO me; our
2-year-old baby, who never could abide
strangers, yclls his lungs out when he
sees me, and our collie won't let me come
into the yard unless my wife comes out 60
protect me That is the sort of summer
am spending. | have lost 10 pounds,
feel 10 years older than l felt four weeks
ago, and my mind is rapidly falling"
For a few minutes he gaZcd down the
room in vacant way.
WELL" he said YEARLY, II think I'll
go to bed ! have a permanent room here
now. Tomorrow I'm going to have my
photograph taken to send to my wife. She
wants to know how | look. It's only nat
ural, you know. A wife is Interested in
her husband. ] write her every day, and
when she gets the photograph She VIII feel
less lonesome. See here, " be said suddenly.
bright look crossing his face, you done
want to rent n IL room cottage on the
New Jersey coast do you? Nor It's
real nice place when it doesn't rain floods
or the wind doesn't blow hurricanes or
the fog-but Of course you don't want it,
You haven't a family. Good night" he
said sadly.-New York Tribune.