Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-22
.JobsoTA's s Great,
 Plan

THE precipitation was rolling in rfv-
 ulets from MT. Jobson's brow when he arrived from the office one hot, hu- mid evening last week. He soused him. self in tub of cold water, but the mere exertion of drying himself after the plunge made him warm all over again. Mrs. Jobson didn't take any chances on trying to engage him in airy persifage when he came downstairs for dinner there wasn't any air stirring, anyhow, and MT. Jobson's heat-warped coun- tenance didn't invite Mrs. Jobson to frivolous conversation. He only picked at his dinner the while he illuminated against the barbarousness of the climate just about four days previously he had been moaning miserably: T wonder if this internal town is ever going to get warm enough to make 1t fit for anything but an Esquimau to live in?' Now, however, it was: This merrie month of May fake gives me the earache- that's what 1t does! The internal gall of the thermometer humping itself up to the 91 mark at this time of the year a fellow might just as we'll move down to the Isthmus of Panama and be done with it!'' Mse
 To comfort him, and give him sur cease of sorrow, Mrs. Jobson read to him a news dispatch stating that there were ten feet of snow in Montana, and that the thermometer registered six degrees below zero out that way.
 'T don't believe any such balderdash!" grossly replied MT. Jobson. tI don't be- lieve that there's that much coofness on the planet-the whole blooming sphere is one gigantic blister, and I'm boiling right in the hottest part of it blast such climate as the one that's dished out to us here, anyhow-I'll bet that that Death Valley we read so much about ism, "a marker to it!"
 Whereupon Mrs. Jobson. espyfng the danger signal, subsided. s.-
 After dinner MT. Jobson rocked him. self at parlor window, yielding palm leaf fan like a fiaik and then he sud- denly broke out:
 why, it's funny never thought of 1t before-it's the swel1est scheme that ever came into my head!"
 What is?'' dubiously inquired Mrs. J OAp ably because she wasn't enpending foot tons of energy in fooling with fan.
 Why" said MT. Jobson, full of the enthusiasm of his great idea, we'll rent this house furnished-just as she stands ito some unfortunate couple idiotic enough to want to stay in Washington during the hot months, or that can't get out of town during the heated spell and we'll go out into the country and board anywhere for the summer - to Tenleytown, or Bladenburg, or Ana costa, or Falls Church anywhere to get a breath of air and dodge the blamed Gehenna-like dog-days of Washington Now, what i've think of that for bully plan?"
 "But," said Mrs. Jobson, you know how you've always despised boarding, and how you like your home cooking, es- pecia1ly when all of the fresh vegetables and fruits are beginning to come to the markets, and"
 "Just wait minute, If you please" interjected MT. Jobson. "Thfs thing is not a question of fresh fruits and veg etables-it so happens, am glad to \ ach every minute that I'm awake. like some people that could mention-but it's plain question of whether you want to have me in parboiled state in Washington all summer, with the chances more than even that I'll be overcome by the heat In my own bed right in the middle of the night before autumn. or whether you can reconcile yourself to my having breath of en- durable country air while the hot months last. That's the proposition in nut shell, and I'll be obliged if you'll put yourself on record as to how you stand on it."
 "Oh, you know how little ! suffer from the heat" began Mrs. Jobson, "and of course want you to be comfortable, but"
 Well, it's settled, then" broke in MT. Jobson, effectively choking off Mrs. Job sons but "I'u write the ad. this even ing, and you can take it down first thing in the morning-elegant house, fully fur nished for housekeeping. for rent from June 1 to October rent merely nom-~ inal-something like that" and MT. Job- son was so full of his great scheme that he went right upstairs and wrote the ad. end read 1t aloud to Mrs. Jobson, and then stuffed it into her chain purse, so