Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-09
ADVANTAGES OF WEALTH

/ aAaliAud, Sdiu the young married IuAl
| to his wife on Sunday AFTERNOON last, will
you be good enough to touch that button
beside you? I want to summon my man
and have him take message down to the
station for me. I have been sitting here
longing for southern California, and I'm
going to send James down to tell the man
in charge of our private car to put her
into commission and have her ready to
be tackled on to the outgoing western ex-
press tonight. I suppose you are ready
and will be glad to go. my dear, even If
1 have suggested it rather suddenly"
His young wife put her finger to her lip
and studied for moment.
IT really don't see how could possibly
get ready so soon, Jack" she said. "Of
course Nitouche, my French maid, could
SO thorough at luggage-packing. Nitouchs!
and Deborah, my other maid, could help
her; but, Jack, there are many other
things to be considered! For instance. those
have been here by the last French steam
er, and ] was so grievously disappointed
that they did not come! The next French
steamer is not due until Wednesday, and
they surely should arrive then. Then, too,
that tiara that is being reset for me. L
should really like to have that before start
ing out on a trip to southern California.
You know what lovely jewels the women
wear out there. And, oh my! forgot all
about my new paddock coat and my new
sealskin ulster that is coming from London
when, goodness only knows; 1t should
have been here two weeks ago. No. Jack,
I don't think it would be at all practicable
to start tonight
How very annoying!" said the young
husband, pettishly. II do wish. Matilda.
that you would give up your obstinate
habit of always placing obstacles in my
path when you see I want to do thing!
Fact is. had quite set my mind on going
tcnight, and I thought I should please and
surprise you by telling you of it suddenly
But, Jack. you know that would really
like"
Now, when you decided suddenly last
January that you wanted to go off on that
Mediterranean cruise" interrupted the
young husband, "did | have any stock Of
excuses ready to spring why I should or
could not accompany you within the TWEEN
y-four-hour time limit that your fancy die
tated? Indeed l did not! I ordered our
yacht, the Crescent Moon, put into com
mission instantly-fact Is, telegraphed to
our skipper to that effect within ten min
utes after you suggested the cruse-and ut
o'clock the next evening we were bound
for Gibralter! Surely you remember
that?"
why, of course I do, you unreasonable
old thing Jack, but
And, now that I've quite fixed my
mind on taking a little run out to the
southern coast of California, and starting
this blessed evening on our private car.
and one reasons to present why you can't
start for week so. Matilda, it is dis
tinctly exasperating!
And the young husband rose from his
chair and strobe up and down. after the
manner of a man very much put out.
"Oh, we'll Jack said his young wife, eff
you're going to take 1t TO heart so, why, m
sure can try and"
ooh, no; I wouldn't have you inconven-
fence yourself for worlds!" he interposed
mot under any circumstances would I
have you put yourself out in the slightest
degree OF course, if you wanted to go
somewhere l could say no. won't be able
to start for a couple of weeks, my dear
I've got to run up to Vermont and look
after my kennels: in the first place. fear
those dogs and especially our prize S15,OOO
st. Bernard are being frightfully neglected
by that dog expert we got in England last
summer Or 1 could say that my stable of
hunters down in Virginia needed looking
after-that 1 didn't believe my corps of
trainers were giving them the proper
schooling over the jumps. Or 1 might If
I wanted to get out of accompanying you
right off, say that our lodge up in the Adj
rondacks. our chateau down in North
Carolina, needed looking after. Again.
might say that the prospect of the issuance
of a new loan by the government would
keep me tied here for couple of weeks.
But never make any such excuses, now.
do I, honest Matilda
"Why, no. of course not; who ever said
that you
ana tnen, 90 you TeInelflDtF WneH we
were in Cairo last winter when you sud
denly took 1t into your head one night that
you'd like to take a dahabiyeh voyage
down the Nile? Remember how chartered
the very finest dahabiyeh on the river that
very night, so that she was ready to re-
ceive us the next morning.
why, of course I've not forgotten that
"And do you remember when We were at
Marseiles you felt too much fatigued to
travel back to Genoa where our yacht was
and teegraphed our skipper and had the
Crescent Moon in Marseilles harbor in the
quickest time that was ever made between
the two ports2 And yet, when 1 suggest,
thinking I'm making you happy, that
would like to start this evening for little
spin out to the coast, why, you invent"
Now, Jack. wait a minute interrupted
the young wife. It only ventured to sug-
gest that there were a few little things I
would like to attend to, but, really. I
should be quite overjoyed to go immediate
ly-this very hour, If you wish. We can
arrange to have all those things men,
that the Crescent Moon just happens to be
lying in San Francisco harbor now! We
can take a little run to japan in her when
we become tired of southern California.
can't we, Jack? And to the Hawaiian
Islands? Won't it be delightful? Oh, am
ready
No. gentle reader, this is not report of
a conversation in one of the gilded man
sions of the wealthy. 1t took place in a
little uptown S20-a-month fiat, and the two
young married persons were 'just playing
they were rich"