Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-06-09

dinner in a paper bag in his coat pock-
ct, tramp all day. come home only after
dark with half dozen quail, thor
oughly satisfied with himself and the
world in general That's fun. Even the
writer has his weaknesses. He has
been known to get into q boat AFTER
breakfast, (notice the word "after')
row out on a lake with stiff breeze
blowing. sit cramped up all day on a
soft pine board, catch dozen bass be
out in a thunderstorm on the return
trip, get soaking wet. eat u hearty sup
per, and go to bed, with a realization
Of virtue is its own reward and be
ready for q duplicate trip next day,
after breakfast. Money wouldn't
lure this scribe to walk twenty miles
in day for half dozen quail. The
reader probably does not care for the
dozen bass. acquired sitting in a boat
ten hours with a hot July sun pouring
down on CLASSY lake.
The writer has friend, that is for
tunate enough to be blessed with be-
abroad every few years. He finds real
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in Rome visiting the art galleries.
and occasionally buying some small
painting at figures appalling to his
friends. This fad of his is not an af-
fectation. He requires no one to be
with him to be the recipient of his en-
thusiasm. Prefers to be alone and
sometimes only shows his purchases
weeks after requirement. To compel
this man to go hunting would be an
outrage. To require him to go fish
ing, would be worse in punishment
than Jail sentence.
The writer has an Acquaintance whose
income is none too large for his man.
ner of living. He too is an employee
with fixed income. He actually de-
prives himself of many luxuries and
some necessities for what? so that he
can keep trotting horse. He drives
every evening, and all day Sunday.
Hot or cold, wet or dry, that horse has
to be exercise. Calls it fun to sit in
his rubber tired road wagon, on a cold
November morning, and be dragged
thru the air at a 2:2O gait. And his
vacation, his play spell consists of
following the races" He has never
made dollar by selling "a good one,"
is always out of pocket, and hard up
after the trotting season is over, but
still year after year, he keeps trotting
horse with the same financial expe-
rience, perfectly content to slave him
self ten months in a year, SO that he
can follow the circuit the other two
months. Fun in fishing or hunting?
E,y1in vYnant rt
There are not words enough in the
English language to express his opin-
ion, concerning such fun, such vaca-
tons.
One of the wonders to the average
masculine mind is the daily experience
Of the summer girl at the lakes Now
to understand this remark the reader
must not confuse the summer girl at
the fashionable resort with the other
girl that is there for an outing. 1t is
the former specimen, the one that
wears five dresses a day, goes on an
excursion every afternoon, dances till
two every morning, occupies room in
the fashionable hotel, hardly large
enough for single bed, wash stand.
a chair and a trunk, and is content
at this fashionable hotel to put up with
a table service disgraceful to the ordi-
nary free lunch counter. One can
make allowance for the hunter, the
fisherman, the art gallery fend, but
the summer girl at Long Branch. even
the summer girl at Okoboji, where
does the fun come in? Many tim she
leaves the most comfortable of homes,
wealth hTipDS all g
sitiees and luxuries, to stow herself
away in hotel room sxlo, up the
fourth story, reached only by long