The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-06-18
UUBBY'S SUMNER IN TOWN.
now THE BREAD UINNER EXISTS
WHILE ms HJFE rs VISITING MA.


| IA Parallel In That of Other Ordinarily
! welI-ReEulnted Urban Families-A Sea-
sonnble Tale That suggests Moral.
Dobey was obliged to take flying trip to
! Syracuse and Utica to try and sell heavy over
! coatings to tho clothing merchants OF those
| towns lust as the hot weather began to get in
! its fine work and Mrs. Doblcy started to mako
preparations for leaving town. He was not
sorry to get away at the time. for 1t was the
! regular thing each year to commence looking
! for some place near enough for Dobley to go In
to BUSH every morning and get back to the
country at night. They had been married
seven years and had never found such place.
but Mrs. Dobley always went through the form
OF looking for the impossible paradise. and al
ways ended by going to her mothers place In
Vermont
Dobey did not nind staying in town and
going to the country over Sunday. but he
! couldn't see the necessity for converting the
! house into locked-up oomfortless cavern OF
camphor- smelling bundles and barrels. Some
times he imagined that the talk about a near
| by place was only ruse. for starting with the
| idea that they were going to shut mp the house.
the windows were nailed up and boarded,
everything was packed. the furniture was
swathed in holland. mothbals permeated the
atmosphere. the carpets were taken up and
sent to the cleaners the cook was discharged:
| the gas was tuTneu OIL even. neH at tilo ldst
minute it was always decided that Dobley
would remain
The house was like tomb and about as hab-
! table as a tar barrel. There was no danger
that Dobley would give any stag parties to
liven up his temporary widowerhood in such
| habitatlon. He had put in a hard summer I'M
! der these conditions last year. but he know
that to seem to oppose the idea meant several
kinds OF trouble, such as Mrs. Dobley's renun-
! citation Of a summerinG and the consequent
| visit OF Dobleys reverAd mother in law during
| the warm weather. when she always decided
that the house was maarial and that it was
| killing Mrs. Dobey to live there.
| While Dobley spun northward on the Pull
man he debated all these things over In his
| mind and resolved on a diplomatic course OF
action which would rob the summer OF some
| Of its camphor- scented terrors during the alb
| sence ofhis spouse. When he got back to town
Mrs Dobley had begun her deadly prepara-
tIons. Her two trunks yawned in the back
| parlor. and seamstress and aundress were
| kept busy emptyinG dry goods into their in
| satiahle maws. A small steamer trunk OF Dob
! ley's stood on end in a corner which was also
part OF Mrs. Doblev's magnificent system. 1t
carried out the idea that Dobey was going
| but at that inevitable last moment she always
| discovered that there were lot OF things she
| hadn't room for. and she took Dobley's trunk
| with her.
After dinner. which they had already begun
to have served in a hurried manner. which
meant that when folks were getting ready to
go away anything in the way Of meals would
| do Mrs Dobley took up the puper and said:
| 1t Is about time that we decided on our loca-
| ton. dear: don't you think so? We want to
find some nice cool spot where you can -
within easy distance Of the city" said
Dooey. Where we can get surf and still
water bathing: corner Queen Anne room
with view OF the ocean and the quiet waters OF
the bay. where we'll be swept by ocean breezes.
with no mosquitoes or malaria fresh eggs.
milk and poultry; good roads; stages meet all
trains-I know just what we want. That's
dead easy. The question is--do we get it,"
orened at t1srs sn new racs o to be
Mrs Kctchumur's going there. It's a new
hotel and there i mllionAire back Of L"
saJ p nfy IS back Of GoT far "o SHG 5u,
notice il doesn't reduce the ice hin any
@ IND f%"a an 6y~y
train that leaves at $40 every morning and
no bSHch by e II the sys.s WON
place. YOU know, dear. I here are no hacks.
for everyone has carriage, and there are lust
street ana get in early in the afternoon. They
hnrd Gay sci ing winter weight suitinGS in
July. daShnG home on my wheel to put on a
~
colonies are lust in my line II guess US |'''
sEHE yog Mr. %E nba nep M out qs,"9d Of
sake don't want YOU - STAY in the hot city"
on. cont min! me said nohl"y. I'm
ros @H %"WM HS Ir to mothers Place" sup
II could hut the trouble woull lie showing
~ Sc ~" , o' ice @ Mr j" each day ;aG D2hlHy
covers W"r" On the pnrlOr furnituI" and hrws-
nhrcrS were tied over the pictures aud lhn
pains had been set ont in the backward Tn"
carpet was uP in tn" hail and the ,Ilung room
w. b "mH ,ri M They nt" of H. tubs il IL"
-" Hal ha," said HOhlcy: "ihis rnniir.'.; mo
H b last sb, summer picnic, tsntit: Where's
put II on IN" rorf to-day" said Mrs Dob.
ley, pu' l"t OF things On tn root: the re-
airing, Then ! boerdcd NJ the srutti" ON A.
Where are my sinners :" said pohl"y.
| CAV" thnm tn til" aShmau YOU cuuIln I
TAX thos" ola shippers to Il nice hotel, YOU
know. dear.
:, Vt Tr ne true 80 said Doboy; whore is
heard OF q place on the, Sound this after
noon where y"u can have all the Yachting YOU
~" And nothing 10 eat Know U thSS sort " sotd
lnDl"y, wher" YOU ara not IN 1t unless YOU
own boat of some Kind and 90 around in
.opi trousers Win q pi"tnr" on your ha' and
Next might Mrs DuII"v had a letter from her
mother saving Sh" honrd to have them both
most afraid that now he hnh his plans ali laid
Mrs. nonley would actually lind some place
NJ don't see why Won don't 60 IN there.
Honora;" he said. the air agrees with Won
and I'm just as well off IN the city Near bGsi-
ness ness YOU know, Really think you'd better
So Mrs, Dohlcv wrote and next evening the
i house was n bs5er than ever, The cook was