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w Mrs. Jobson from the seaside
last summer he stood forth and de-
clured himself on the subject Of sum-
mer trips.
''This is the last" he announced.
'No more of these idiotic hot-weather
jaunts for me. haven't been COM
Portable Il minute since | left home.
Washington's a pretty good place to
live in. 1t suits me winter and sum-
mer, and the next time | let anybody
drag me away from my own home for
a month or six weeks during the siz-
cling weather, the one that does the
dragging-hc or she-is going to be
told a few things. l didn't want to go
in the first"
"Why.' put in Mrs. Jobson. you
know that you were talking about 60
ing to the beach with anticipation for
weeks before We
"No, L wasn't, Mrs. Jobson." inter-
rupted Mr.. Jobson. 81 didn't amy
more want to go to the beach than
wanted to go to Jail. and you're evil
IDENTIFY suffering from an atrophied
memory when you say otherwise. l
wanted to stay home and be COM
Portable. but | was wheedled and bam-
boozled and coddled into kiting off with
you to swarmlng. teemln1 summer
resort, where | had to sit on a red hot
hotel porch and talk pretty to a lot of
people that | had nothing in common
with and that probably despised me in
their nmost souls. and where ] had to
~
every day because all the rest of the
gang did it. and where | had to 90
along on cruises in salboats and get
sick every time YOU nodded to me that
you wanted to go. and where didn't
get proper meal of victuals during
my entire stay, and where | had to
push you around in a perambulator
and look as if | liked ii. just because
all the other imbcciles down there
with strong, healthy. 10O-pound wives
perambulate their wives. and where |
felt in general like a salt mackerel in
the bottom of a barrel Its taken me
good many years to get this home
together. and"
'Well. | am sure [ would be per-
fectly content to remain at home all
the year around" said Mrs. .lobson
Don't YOU remember hat | suggested
last spring that we remain at home
this year and get a new porcelain
bathtub instead of spenulny the
money for trip. and have the house
painted all over. and get new chif-
fonier and modern refrigerator--"
You have a gifted Imagination.
Mrs. Jobson," said MIR Jobson. Its a
wonder to me that YOU didn't take to
the writing of fiction in early life. I'd
like to accommodate you by remem-
boring all that, but my memory isn't
as elastic as it might be convenient for
you to have it. l do remember. how
ever, that you began to tinker with
material for new bathing suit as
early as the month of March, and that
you began to read the seaside adver-
tisements in the Star paper before the
lilacs began to show up on the mar
ket stands, and that YOU began to get
letters from hotel keepers down at
the beach. in response to Your secret
inquiries as to terms. long before the
month Of May dragged to its close,
and that when the first hot day in
June happenedaIongyou began to pant
and 10 look wistful and to remark that
you'd never suffered so much from the
heat before. and to tell me that YOU
thought l needed . change and the
salt air badly. and so on"
"Didn't YOU say two weeks before
we started that YOU pitied folks that
had to remain in the boiling city all
summer, and ......
Boiling city. Mrs. ,]ohson?" ex
claimed Mr.. ,Jobson. You neve,
heard me make use of suc!, a term il
your life with reference to Washing
ton. All this talk about Washnotor
being a hot city in the summer i.
moonshi,e. It's cool enough for me
anyhow. and the next time YOU com
mcnce 10 look wistful before the sum
mer's half oegun, I'll send YOU to tn,
seaside. all right. but Ill stay at HON,
myself. I've had all the summer re
sorting l want in mine
This was the way Mr.. JobSon de
clared himself upon his return from
the seaside last year. 1t may be re
marked that. in a1tributing to Mrs
Jobson Wild. unrest aiEable desire I