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

ND yet another Of those domestic
n dialogues-and one not inappro-
pirate to the season-runs something
in this wise;
She-Well, now that the warm
weather is beginning it's pretty near
time for you to make up your mind
where we've going to spend your
months leave, isn't it?
He-Oh, that's it. Start something.
She-I knew you'd say that. That's
what you always say when 1 attempt
to use a little foresight, and goodness
knows that foresight is something that
is sadly needed in his house.
He-You don't expect me to pick up
and hike off on a vacation now, when
it's pretty near time to go to bed, do
you?
She-I wonder if you will ever give
me a decent or reasonable answer to
anything I say to you? Other folks
have got their plans all made by this
time as to where they're going to spend
their vacations, and yet when 1 even
suggest it to you you
He-Whos "other folks?
She-Oh, everybody, and you know
just as we'll
He-Your "other folks" is just like
that "they say gag of yours. Any
bug idea you get you toss on the shout
ders of these mysterious "other folks. ="
What you need
/She-There you go with your old
scheme of trying to switch me off from
any subject that I start upon. We're
not talking about my bug ideas, as you
vulgarly call them, if you please. I am
inquiring if you have given any
thought yet as to where we are going
to spend our vacation this summer?
He-Well, can name you few pla-
ces where we're not going, if you care
to hear them. We're not going to
spend three or four months in the Ty-
rol, nor are we going to cruise around
the North cape in a white yacht, and
we're not going to put in a few fort
nights of canoeing in Labrador, and
we are not
She-Oh, l simply refuse to have
you make me ridiculous in this way.
When you are not evasive you are sim
ply insulting, and
He-Well, I'm going at the summer
vacation thing by the process of elm
ination, so to speak, that's all. You
ask me where we're going, and point
you out some places where we're not
going. When get through doing that,
maybe you'll know just where we are
She-The whole truth of the matter
is, l suppose-in fact, l can clearly see
It'll can tell from your manners
that you are going to try to dodge taxi
ing me anywhere, as usual, or else you
think that it will be all right for you
to take me on one of those mid-July,
crowded, Friday-to-M whirls to
Atlantic City, stopping at some dinky
little place on a side street about two
miles from the Boardwalk, or
He-Oh, 1 suppose you didn't spend
three weeks at a Maryland watering
place all by your little lonesome last
summer, and
She-Watering place! ha! ha! Please
don't make me laugh. Watering place!
A miserable little old farm about seven
miles from a railroad, where / almost
died irony the heat and mosquitoes,
and
He-Well, never thought it was
much of watering place myself, from
your private description of it to me,
but you've got to hand it to me that
you wrote to everybody you knew that
you'd spent lnree weeks at a Maryland
watering place, and that
She-Oh, o. course-throw up to me.
THAT do you suppose people would
think of you if wrote to them that
you'd shipped me to a lonesome, miser-
able little
He-Who's ''people?"
She-There you go again with your
perpetual lodging and diving around.