The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-11-08
CURIOUS HOLIDAY MlAN1As.
The Same Vacation Suit Worn for
 Twenty-two Seasons.

The Same Vacation Suit Worn for
 Twenty-two Seasons.
 Many people who are sane enough on most points become eccentric cranks at holiday time. In a certain Liverpool household the subject of where to go invariably gives rise to stormy dis cussion. Flor ffo less a period than forty years the head of the house has regularly each summer spent his holi- days at Douglas, in the Isle of Man.
 A very charming place, too, but the younger members of the family kick against going there year after year They naturally want to see some other pleasure resorts, but their annual grumble only extorts from their irasci- ble parent the declaration, Douglas or nowhere" and, as he holds the purse strings, Douglas or nowhere it has to be,
 Curlously enough, the trouble with another Liverpudhan is that he will never be induced to go to the same place a seseond time. There are few seaside resorts that he has not visited at one time or another but to none has he ever been known to go more than once.
 On the other hand, his wife does not care for fresh place each holiday sea- son. She is in love with the east coast, and thinks there is no place in the world for holiday equal to Cro- mer. She would be quite happy to go there every year, if only her wandering husband-as she calls him-would be agreeable. But he will newer listen to this, so that If she is not prepared to accompany him to a resort which he has never prepared to accompany him to 6 resort which he has never seen be- fore, her only alternative is to remain at home. She has often threatened to go where she wants to and leave her husband to do likewise but so far has never done so.
 Another good lady, residing in Man chester, has trouble with her lard and master oyer a different matter, For upward of twenty-two years he has had what he calls a holiday suit, ' which he has worn during every Vaca- tion that he has had since he bought 1t This suit he has never had on his back at any other time, but during his annu- al holiday he cannot be Induced to wear any other. As his wife tells him | it Is In that that he is seen morning ! noon and night, as if he had not anoth CT suit of clothes to put on.
 As 8 matter of fact, he has no other with him, for, despite all his better l half's remonstranees, he cannot be per suaded to take more clothes than hi holiday suit when he leaves home fol his annual outing. This is rather 2 sore point with the wife, for she in sists on being we'll dressed and sees tt it that she has no lack of changes O raimgment even if her husband refuse to cucumber himself with one.
 Some men have mania for disap bearing during their annual holiday leaving no trace of their whereabout behind. IA very busy London merchan does this every season, and for a spac of @ month not even his family hace the remotest idea where he coult be found. He leaves by himself anC comes back by himsef and he bring nothing with him that gives the leas clew to where he has spent his holiday
 This mans business friends oftel chaff him about where he goes, bu none of them has ever yet been abl to glean anything of the secret. Hi wife and family have long since cease
 to exhibit any curiosity regarding i recognizing that 1t is good for him t have a months rest in year from tn ordinary worries of his life,-TitABitS