Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-11-11
MISS GENEvIEvE HECKER AFTER WINNING THE WOMANS
GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP.

She was gone and he, smiling pity.
ingly on the platform, murmured:
Poor Julia! She's got to have
something to worry about. If she had
half my business affairs to look after
she'd go crazy" And he walked back
to the empty fiat to get his pipe.
The place, with its closed windows
some that he determined to go down.
town for harmless lark. Two hours
of aimless wandering through the
streets convinced him that there was
no place like home. He got on the
train and went there. He raised all
the windows to try little experiment
which Julia had never approved of, but
when he woke in the middle of the
night, the rain as beating in at the
front windows, the floor was flooded
and the new rug was soaked.
Just my luck" he grunted, slop.
ping around in the dark. That would
not have happened If Julia had been
here"
He did not stop to guess that per.
haps she had met such little Difficult.
ties a hundred times without his
knowledge, but rolled back into bed
again. He oversight himself the next
morning and In his haste 20 get to the
office on time, had TO forego the lit.
tie task OF making his bed. He put
the oatmeal ON, but hadn't time TO wait
for 1t. When he got on the train he
found that he had no handkerchief and
dim realization came over him that
Julia never kissed him goodby in the
morning without asking: Got clean
handkerchief john"
That evening when he let himself
into the empty fiat, an odor like a rag
factory fire greeted his nostrils. lie
rushed into the kitchen and found that
he had forgotten to put out the gas
under the oatmeal pot. There was a
eled ware and the place was reeking
with a sickening fog. Then he made
tea in the coffee pot and couldn't drink
the concoction. He forget to grease
the skillet for his egg frying, and, as
1t was getting late, he decided to eat
standing up by the kitchen table rath.
er than carry the things inc the dining
room. 1t wasn't very good supper,
but Jenkins wasn't particular. He
postponed the. dishwashing till after
he had taken his stroll and his smoke,
and when he came back he was too
sleepy.
That was the gait" that jenkins
struck on the first day OF Julia's alb
sence. and he never quite got out Of
II. He was always a little too rush.
ed" in the morning to wash the dishes
or make his bed, and in the evening
he was tagged" or suffering for a
breath of fresh air. or eager to read
the papers. -on the eighth day he
missed altogether, even his home.
made cup of coffee, and galloped FIVE
blocks to get at a suburban restaurant.
He spent two hours one night look.
ing for clean collars, and when he gave
up the search every chiffonier dress
er, wardrobe and closet in the house
looked as II burglar had ransacked
them. Then he suddenly realized that
he had forgotten to send his linen TO
the laundry. After that he couldn't
"fnd anything" He made few more
bluffs at getting his own
breakfast, but the pile of dirty dishes
in the sink began to grow mountain.
Gus and disheartening, and besides he
manage to keep any fresh
things" in the refrigerator. The ice.
man always came after he was gone,
and he never could think of ordering
butter and eggs, Then he quit com
ing home till bedtime. He took in"