Newport daily independent., 1902-10-02
SPELL OF THE MAUI.
BY KATE MAsTERsON.

in town unexpectedly just as he was about to start for their summer home at Daisyhurst to spend his Saturday to Monday holiday.
 She explained that she had grown tired of the country and thought 1t would be jolly idea for them to go stunning in the city. Her Majes- tvs definition of stunning included the most expensive dinners obtain able on hotel roof gardens, trolley ing, and table d'hoting and wild suppers in German restaurants.
 sI'm sick of cows and chickens and pigs she declared, as she bolted into the Boys office. 1I've bad case of New Yorkitis. l want to go up and see the monkeys in the Zoo and be helped over Broadway by a big police man.
 So on Sunday morning they found themselves having very informal breakfast in the closed-up house where the Boy had been keeping bachelor hall.
 "How delightful it seems to see your face at the table once morep exclaimed the Boy sPye stopped breakfasting at home since you went away. Home is not the same place without woman's gentle presence. :"
 ''I should say it isn'tp exclaimed Her Majesty; T found 37 empty beer bottles under the piano and soiled collars hung all over the rubber plant, just as though 1t were Christmas treep
 'I entertained the Don't Worry club here one Friday evening" ex- plained the Boy, land they seemed to imagine that l had invited them for a weekend party. They didn't go home until Monday, and l had to lend them all clean collars. They were in adecorative mood when they left, and so hung their own collars on the tree. :"
 'sThen the idea of the catw ex- claimed Her Majesty in an annoyed way.
 ''You mean the kittens, l suppose, :" said the Boy. 'Well, 1 couldn't help that, you know"
 '"Then the geraniums in the win dow boxes are all in bloom," pouted Her Majesty; it was so mean of them to bloom while I was away"
 ''That was most remarkable thingp' exclaimed the Boy.
 'I've discovered that cigar ashes will make plants bloom I've been using the window boxes as ash trays. It worked sJ we'll with the flowers that l realized that there was undiscov- cred and perhaps valuable chemical properties in cigar ashes Just as an experiment. 1 put some in the ca nary's seed, and, do you know, it has grown quite fluffy"
 ''I have decided" said Her Majes- ty, seriously, 'that it is wife's duty to stay by her husbands side during the summer time. l shall not return to Daisyhurst. 1 have decided to send for my trunks" :"
 Don't think of such thing" ex- claimed the Boy. lam quite content ed, assure you"
 Her Majesty looked sharply at him. Then her face softened. "Ah, yes, " she said, you say that because you are so self-sacrifcing, so noble"
 Not at all! Not atall!" protested the Boy.
 "Since I have been away" went on Her Majesty, q have had more time to think of serious things. When I went away l thought of nothing but new gowns"
 The Boy looked up in alarm. He thought this angelic mood suggested illness. Her Majesty had decided appreciation for new gowns nor mally.
 s'They were very pretty gowns" he remarked, gallantly; "they were worth the money"
 "They are all worn out now" said Her Majesty, ''to ragsr'
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