The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-28
THE SUMNER VACATION
NOT AN UNALL0YED GOOD.

odd, isn't it, how we are always
running across bits of tragedy and
comedy in the street and how some of
them haunt us afterward. 1 find my
self filling in the background, adding
the missing figures and working away
on my subject until have completed
picture to my satisfaction. Some
times it's no easy matter either"
The speaker, says the Brooklyn Ea-
gle, was one of the two women lunch
ing together at a New York restaurant
favored by well-to-do shoppers The
other raised her eyebrows in interested
inquiry as she asked:
Your remark is apropos of one of
these picture themes?"
Yes l was in a telegraph office
this morning wrestling with the prob
lem of shaving a twenty-five word
message down to ten words, when
man rushed in and grabbed a message
pad alongside of me. He was young
ish and well dressed and might have
been good looking but for the express
sion of his face. 1t was like a thunder
cloud and his eyes fairly flashed light
ming. He was visibly agitated as he
tore up one message after another. The
last one he turned in 1 caught
SlililpSS VI DIS he WROTE, II WAS a0
dressed to Mrs. Somebody or other and
the place was a fashionable summer
resort. All the. telegram said was:
Come home at once"
The picture as l completed it," con-
tinued the speaker, contained a pref
ty young wife, the story of whose fir
tations had just come to jealous hub
bys ears"
Il think can go your little story one
better and on the same lines" began
the second woman. within a few days
l overheard two scraps of conversation
on the cars this week that were
strikingly alike in general outline,
though differing somewhat in detail.
Both had to do with domestic difficult
ties and the summer vacation. The first
was between two fashionably dressed
women on an L train They took no
pains to prevent the passengers in
their vicinity from hearing their con-
versation, which ran after this fashion:
" Mrs. L returned from the
country yesterday 'Humph, she'd bet
ter have come sooner. Didn't that
husband of hers just have fine time
while she was away It'll be WON
der if she doesn't hear of it, for it's
the talk of the neighborhood. oh,
she wouldn't believe it, anyway. She's
blind as bat where he's concerned
OHOuiul LUlIlh she WOULD De aIIer
what came out last winter about him.
That never made any real impression
on her. She still thinks he's per-
feet
We'll" went on the story teller. at
didn't need much Imagination to fill
in the details of that picture. The sec
ond conversation was so similar as to
fairly startle me. This time it was
two men who did the talking. They
CTnlyo in
been that the car was crowded and
1 was tightly wedged up against them
I shouldn't have heard. This is about
the way the talk ran:
" DO you know K? yes. he's
one of my most intimate friends. Are
you acquainted with him? Slightly;
| live in the same apartment house.
Know his wife better than l do him
What do you think of her?' Um-ah-
well-there's nothing slow about her.
to say the least While x was
down to st. Louis for a few weeks
this summer she raised merry war. l
can tell you. 1t was lucky hubby
didn't come home Unexpectedly: he
might have had an unpleasant sur
prise For heavens sake, don't ever
tell him. Why he worships the very
ground she walks on
The men left the car at this point.
so / heard no MORE" concluded the
speaker.
THE moral of 1t all would seem
obvious" said her companion; don't
go on a summer vacation with
out the partner of your joys and sor-
Perhaps" laughed the other. "but
Tor my part prefer to con-
sider 1t good thing. and these in
stances only exceptions which prove
the rule"