The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-05-12
DOBLEYS GO
A=FLATTING.



tbs sumner" sald Mrs, DobleS clap
ming her hands dellghtedly over tn:
breakfast table.
III it is coaching trip through Ger
many or a houseboat ON the Thames,
Jam nay count me out" said Mr. Dob
lev @ho had grown to fear these exu-
r.rsht outbursts OF enthusiasm on his
WIGS part.
",r is nothing so commonplace" said
MI pobley. 1T is simply a gypsyish
MIN Of doing exactly as we wish or go
igg way indefinitely without caring
nov,bing about having to leave big
t.as.. Wen close up the house"
"D5 you propose that we shall carry
Itrps like the Indians or establish a
parmanent camp under canvas some
wb re- % asked Mr. Dobley.
I "NeIther." exclaimed Mrs. Dobley,
rgmpaauy. 81 propose that we take
fat somewhere: furnish 1t up with
spmnery japanese rugs and bamboo
door and wicker chairs Just like sum
mcr cottage"
You mean that we should live dou-
Bio lie. having one home here and fla:
elsewhere? Let me understand you,
please"
Nothing of the sort" said Mrs. Dob
lev Don't you remember that last
wear we agreed that the coolest, pleas
ATTEST place we found was New York,
and how lovely It was to take a day
of from the seaslde?"
"oh, then you mean to establish q
cheerful summer house in New York;"
said MIR. pobley. "But what is the OBJ
lection to remaining right here in our
happy, high-prlced homer"
THAT'S Just it," said Mrs. Dobley.
we could economise all through sum-
mqr. Besides it wouldn't be any fun to
stay here! We'd Just have to keep on
being respectable! We have to live up
to the house and keep regular hours for
meals. It's too monotonous."
III you summer in u fiat you'll find
respcctability exciting in the fall" SAID
pobIey; that is I'VE heard Freshlngton
say So"
my idea is" said Mrs. Dobley "tO
have Just one Japanese man who will
do all the work and who will be pre-
pared to get up dinners and suppers in
chaans dish at moments notice. We
will dispense with all ceremony. Don't
you see what complete changed Will
be? We won't even have to dress for
dinner unless we wish. Then people
won't know where we live and can't call
on u.s.
Where do you propose that wa
should found this Flatters' Retreat"
asked Mr.. Dobley. HAD we better go
under assumed names or shall we adopt
some simple disguIse?"
I'VE won't have to do anything SO
Silly" said Mrs. Dobley. I'VE shnll
simply disappear without announcing
our intentions or sending out any cards.
People may suppose we have gone away
in yacht or taken a cottage some
where. No one will really know where
we are and we can enjoy the idea that
people think we are away whsn we are
really right in town"
1T would be much more mysterious to
take another name and disguise for the
SUMMER" said Dobley. II might wear
glasses and an English suit and black
whiskers and you could dye your hair
red-one OF those Titan shades. Thea
people wouldn't even know u.s."
1T would seem too suspicious" said
Mrs. Dobley, although admit 1t would
be great fun. But people are suspicious
enough in flats, anyhow"
But fancy our feelings when the 50
cIey Notes make mention Of the facs
that the John Dobleys have closed theiT
house in Gramercy Park and have
taken a cheap nat In Harlem for the
summer. 1t would ruin US. When peO-
pie want TO do things of that sort they
60 to Paris and live in the restaurants.
II you try to do it in New York II isn't
picturesque at all. and people begin to
come in with bills. No, We shall have
to take another name should suggest
Blo,skovltehky. 1t would give the i'm
preston that we are Russians. arl
everything we do would be excused.
Then 1t would be mysterious; 1t sounda
as though title went with 1t. 1t would
also look well on one of those little TIL
plates they put over the letter boxes IN
the hall where you click the door ouan
from the upstairs after host and visitor
have yelled At each other through a
tube"
u don't Intend that we should settle
In that kind of queer fiat" said Mrs,
Dobley Il intend to have splcIons'
airy rooms, lots OF sunlight and con-
ycnIances Of every kind. Why you
have no idea Of how comfortably thy
build those houses nowadays until you
read the advertisements"
81 prefer those that are laid out like a
train Of cars" said Dobley. with the
rooms coupled on to each other. / al
ways feel right in the bosom Of family
when call at one Of thos, Oats, You
80 Ia rear-end door ana walk through
all the cars and TAX, = seat in the en-
g,ac which is also the parlor car. When
any ot the family happen to have re-
tired they cover their heads with blnn-
keia while visitors are brought through
aud you are supposed not to notice
tham. even II they are your hest
frIends."
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