Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-11
SUMMER VACATION

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And yet another OF those domestic dia-
iogues-and one not inappropriate to the
season-runs something In this wise:
!, She-Weil. now that the warm weather In
| beginning It's pretty near time for you to
! make up your mind where we're going to
| spend your months leave. isn't it?
He-Oh. that's It. Start something.
1 Shell knew you'd say that. That's what
you always say when I attempt to use q
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 of on a vacation now, when it's pretty
near time to go to bed. do you?
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
He-Who's ''other folksf'
She-Oh, everybody, and you know just
he-Your "other folks is just like that
they say gag Of yours. Any bug idea you
get you toss on the shoulders of these mys-
terious "other folks" What you need
trying to 90 me w o s 0 sabee
| that start upon. We're not talking about
nay pug ideas. as you vulgarly call them.
II you please. am inquiring II you have
given any thought yet as to where we are
going to spend our vacation this summer
He-Well. ] can name you few places
where were not going. If you care to hear
! them. We're not going to spend three or
four months in the Tyrol, nor are we going
| to cruise around the North cape in a white
yacht, and were not going to put in a few
Iortnlghts OF canoeing in Labrador, and
We are not
She-Oh. 1 simply refuse to have you
| make me ridiculous in this way. When you
are not eyasive you are simply insulting.
level. Pm going at the summer vaca-
ton thing by the process of elimination, so
to speak. that's all You ask me where
were going. and point you out come
places where were not going. When l get
through doing that maybe you'll know just
where we are
She-The whole truth of the matter is, 1
suppose-in fact, 1 can clearly see i'll can
tell from your manner-Is that you are
going to try to dodge taking me anywhere
as usual, or else you think that it WILDE
ali right for you to take me on one of those
mfd.July. crowded Friday to- Monday whirls
to Atlantic City, stopping at some dinky
little place on side street about two miles
from the Boardwalk. or
weeks at Maryland watering place all by
your little lonesome last summer, and
She-Watertng place! ha! ha! Please
don't make me laugh. Watering place! A
miserable little old farm about seven miles
from railroad, where I almost died from
the heat and mosquitoes. and
He-Wel. never thought ii was much of
a watering place myself. from your private
description of 1t to me- but you've got to
hand 1t to me that you wrote to everybody
you knew that. you'd spent three weeks at
Maryland watering place. and that
Sheen, OF course-throw that up to me.
l write things to protect the face of my
husband, and then he casts them up to me-
What do you suppose people would think of
me to lonesome, miserable little
f.le-Who's ''people7"
she-There you go again with your per-
petuai lodging and diving around. Let
US get back to the point. ii you please We
are going out of town for a vacation this
summer, are we not2
He.oh, when the vacationizing time be-
gins to veer around, guess maybe we can
shake up some old scheme to
She-But that's exactly what I'm trying
to ayofd-that Stalking up some old scheme,
like reasonable man-like other men do
and talk a matter like this over with me in
decent season?
He-Well. I'm sitting down. and I'm being
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 month at some nice place this
minute, as you always do, and then go
piunging around in search Of
He-its blamed little summer. pfunging
I'd do ii I wasn't bullyragged into It, I
can tell you that. I'm all for the peaceful,
pajama-ish life in the good old summer
time. II you're asking me. 80 -.
. Sheen, 1 suppose you mean by that that;
you don't want to take me away anywhere
at ALL and that
He-Dont expect anything I've been
married too long to be much Of an ex-
Shelf had nothing to say for myself
l suppose you would be perfectly willing to
have me spend the whole Hvelong summer
here In this sizzling town, with the asphalt
md
He-Weil, it hollis and bubbles some for
me- too. doesn't It?
she-And you would expect me to hang
over hot gas-range and cook your
He-what you got a house girl for?
She-Oh, you know very well that she
like things. and that like to cook
He-Well. II you like it SO much, what
the deuce are you kicking about, hey?
. She-Oh. that's it. take that tack You're
IL never entitledto the least little bit of
change Of scene or air. You're just like
your father and all the rest OF your fam
lily. and you're growing more like them
every year Of your life, in spite of ali
can
He-Glad I'm so much like 'em. Great
folks. ! like EN- They always did make
hit with me.
She-Weli. you can have them II you
want them, / am sure. But that doesn't
Change the point that you would keep me
tlttl up III tLtS Hat, WITH never q chance
to see anything or hear anything new, un-
til I was carried out feet foremost. IL
you
He-Say. you're queer kind of q PROPOSE
ton. honest you are: What you want to
do. become bareback rider ina circus?
She-Thats 1t, go right ahead and insult
me and compare me to the lowest creatures
you can think OF, and
He-Nothfng 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-grandchildren In fact, 1 once
heard Of a.
She-Piease don't tell me what you have
heard of. The very idea OF your receiving
my suggestion in fhis way when T.
Helm what way? Haven't been talking
1t over with you?
She-It's pure selfishness, that's what 1t
is. 1t isn't SO hard for you to stay here the
livelong summer. when you haven't a sin
gle, solitary thing to do
He-That's pretty good, too. Nothing to
do, hey? I suppose don't hustle out and
get the coin OF anything like that hey?
She-Oh, you know very well what
mean. And I wish you would be good
enough not to throw 1t up to me SO often
that you provide me with livelihood It's
1ow-just low. and nothing else Maybe you
think ought to provide for myself?
He-Well, you'd find out how Big a dollar
looked IL you did, I can tell you that
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