The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-07-27

begins to veer around, guess maybe
we can shake up some old scheme to
She-But that's exactly what m
trying to avoid-that shaking up some
old scheme, as you call it. Why can't
you sit down, like a reasonable man
like other men do-and talk a matter
like this over with me in decent sea-
son?
He-Well, I'm sitting down, and Pm
being decent, amt 1? What do you
want me to do, make you a long speech
about
She-I merely want you to get your
mind on the fact that we ought to have
a whole, nice, long month at some nice
place this summer, instead of waiting
until the last minute, as you always
do, and then go plunging around in
search Of
He-Its blamed little summer plung-
ing I'd do if 1 wasn't bullyragged into
it, can tell you that. I'm all for the
peaceful, pajama-ish life in the good
old summer time, if you're asking me.
She-Oh, l suppose you mean by that
that you don't want to take me away
anywhere at all, and that
He-Don't expect anything. I've
been married too long to be much or
an expecter.
Shelf 1 had nothing to say for my
self suppose you would be perfectly
willing to have me spend the whole
livelong summer here in this sizzling
town, with the asphalt boiling and
bubbling, and
He-Well, it boils and bubbles some
for me, too, doesn't it?
She-and you would expect me to
hang over a hot gas-range and cook
your meals
He-What you got a house girl for?
She-Oh, you know very we'll that
she doesn't know how to cook the way
you like things, and that like to
cook
He-Well, il you like it so mucn,
what the deuce are you kicking about,
hey?
She-Oh, that's it, take that tack.
You're just the type of man that thinks
a woman is never entitled to the least
little bit of change of scene or air.
You're just like your father and all
the rest of your family, and you're
growing more like them every year of
your life, in spite of all l can
He-Glad I'm so much like 'em.
Great folks. l like 'em. They always
did make hit with me.
She-Well, you can have them if you
want them, am sure. But that doesn't
change the point that you would keep
me tied up in this fiat, with never
chance to see anything or hear any
thing new, until I was carried out feet
foremost, if you
He-Say, you're a queer kind OF a
proposition, honest you are. What you
want to do, become bareback rider
in a circus?
She-That's it, go right ahead and
est creatures you can think Of, and
He-Nothing of the sort. They're not
low, they're just lively, that's all, while
they're working in the sawdust ring.
Some of them have great-grandchil-
dren. In fact once heard of "a
She-Please don't tell me what you
have heard of. The very idea of your
receiving my suggestion in this way
when +
Hem what way? Haven't l been
talking it over with you?
She-It's pure selfishness, that's
what it is. 1t isn't so hard for you to
stay here the livelong summer, when
you haven't single, soItary thing to
do
He-That's pretty good, too. Moth
ing to do, hey? suppose don't hustle
out and get the coin or anything like
that, hey?
She-Oh, you know very well what
mean. And l wish you would be
good enough not to throw it up to me
so often that you provide me with a
Livelihood. It's low-just low, and
nothing else. Maybe you think l ought
to provide for myself?
He-Well, you'd find out how big a
dollar looked if you did, can tell
you that.
She-That sounds just like you, too.
And can see your scheme perfectly
well. You expect to keep me hanging
on the ragged edge of nothingness here
during the long, hot summer, while
you sit around in your pajamas read
ing and watching me run the fiat, and
when you want recreation you can trot
around to all of the beer gardens and
goodness knows to where else, and 1
am expected to put on a sweet face
over it all and go on just the same,
and
He-Dont you think It's pretty high
time to curl up on this particular line
of conversation and make the initial