The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-07-21
While His Wife Was Away
A New Yorker Tries the Bachelor
Life Once More. and Does
Not Like 1t.
Not Like 1t.

y. 7. Sun-He accompanied his wife
10 the station TO put her on the train
She was bound west for a months
visit with her folks.
II was 10 be their first separation
during their FIVE years OF married life.
He had been rather looking forward to
1t with a vaguely mischievous antici-
patton Of a renewal, for the month, Of
his oldtime bachelor existence.
You don't seem to be greatly
grieved that I am TO be away from you
for a whole long month" she had said
to him on the evening before Wont
you miss me-just q Iittle?'
.Oh. course I'll miss you he had
replied in an offhand way, suppressing
a yawn. But married folks ought to
be away from each other once in q
while Does EN- both good
Then ne added as a sort OF soothing
afterthought:
I'm appreciate you all the more when
you get back-sure thing, I will and
he bestowed a careless sort OF a duty
bound caress upon her.
The heel. flush OF anticiozti IN
mounted 10 his cheekbones when the
train disappeared out of the station.
His eyes plainly said: Watch little
Willie
Guess I won't go back 10 the Office
today" he said to himself, looking al
his watch. Wonder whatd be the
matter with a little ride down to Coney
on the boat?'.
He found il dull work, the ride down
TO Coney on the boat. The other ex-
cursionists were mostly tired-looking'
perspiring mothers of young children,
and the children never seemed TO leave
of devouring alternate mouthfuls OF
pickles and cake, dished out to them
from soiled shoe boxes
He did not leave the boat when II
stopped at the Coney pier, but lounged
over TO the other side and bit OF the
end of one cigar after another, wishing
himself back in town. There was no.
body for him TO talk to. The ride to
Coney was far from hilarious
He let himself into the fiat upon his
return and found it cool and dark, bu'
strangely quiet and deserted-looking'
He wandered aimlessly through the
rooms with his head half cooked TO one
side as II he eXpSCLE4 O. any AAASA-A-~@
to hear a familiar voice
The sleeping rooms were permeateo
with the fragrance of the cld-fashion-
I'd lavender in which his wife always
slowed her white goods in the
cbfronier. mingled with the pleasant
sxeetish aroma Of the japanese mat
+i,e IN the floors. She had picked out
that mating He shifted the all
~
..Dafrrv woman-daintiest evel
knew" he thought OF his wife, anc
then he remembered how fetching sn'
had locked in her pongee travelling sui
when he had put her on the train ina
forenoon
"A month. eh?" he caught himself
saving We'll. a months quite a Ions
stretch, sometimes.
He picked up from the dresser a re-
rose that his wife had worn IN ne
dark hair on the evening BEFORE h'
caugb+ himself pressing the rose TO III
1,oS+riIs. He saw himself doing this Il
the glass and then he grinned al III
reflection .A+4a
I'm an ass" he muttered Arte
Eve wears. at that-Tm SOD
BE turned in pretty early that nlght
ae+a- inaHectually endeavoring TO rea'
an evening paper upside down LOT IA
q, bour or so-he didn't seem 10 Car
to read ,,-,s
pinned to the fresh suit OF panama
hitch she had thoughtfully spread gu
=, his he'd that morning he found I'M
Y+tle scribble, on a sheet OF her VIII
ing paper: ..,,, -.,tr tn
GOOD night-sleep tight Win en-
,,;-,inutive of her name signed aAle
+ba words Down at the potion :
the sheet, in tiny letters was IL
word Hugs" .b
well. I guess maybe she hoL -
oil right girl, hey?" he SAID 70 "4inSe'
he turned out the hgnt-
IN the following evening ne toOA :,
4rnIlax ride TO a suburban =
tt.,ars5 n the band music and Wa'eh
"a the girls and young fellows oan ~,
while. The way the youhs &c
IL, ,oI ,ovared and four-fiushed arouil
~ Girls and made village cutups
+te-nsalves struck him as some INN
rather curious .ta4 eve
..T.vonder If it's possible ffl4' -
- such a mutt monkey OF l1 ~. !,
+base Young chaps are DONG :
S,,ez birnself. Guess I did. thousi
,bat-but, hully smoke ooesn