New-York tribune., 1909-07-16
TACATIONS APART.
Has a Short Separation a SaIutdry
Effect on Married Couples?

Ben and I start Tor our holiday next week said
the woman who had been married ten years
''Bens going to the Adrondacks to hunt and fish
for a month. and I'm going TO the seashore-'
You're going spend your vacation I'm different
places?" gasped the woman who had been married
two years.
Yes: why not Ben IS crazy about camps and
hunting 7 think a camp in the woods IS the
height Of discomfort, and the sight Of a gun spoils
my vacation. l love the seashore; the seashoro
bores Ben. Why should 7 give up what Ike and
pretend 10 enjoy things don't enjoy or why should
he sacrifice his one good time IN the year on 7he
altar Of devotion 10 me? Besides. continued the
ten years wife TRANQUILITY. after being away from
me for a month Ben appreciates me better
.IH wager you don't make him write 10 you
oftener than once week. then" said the novehst
Who had dropped i'm for tea. NO mans love VIII
stand the Of having to write daily letter eN
cept of course when he's in the sweetheartinS
stage"
when was a young wife laughed the white
haired woman. Il went n stay with my parents
for a fortnight. and got a most afectonate ietter
from Tom every day. I returned on saturday
and found Tom laid up with a sprained ankle
received the Thursday before. His thursday let
tor dated at midnight Of that day. began this way;
.TarIinr I'm very we'll but lonely without you
,bst I rad 70 take a ten-utIle tramp this evening.
,Ist to shake on the longing for you Inc rascal
had 70 confess that he wrote the letters for tne
week on Sunday. and gave them 10 MS ''s'A ~
be mailed the dates came.
wife
L rrled then but I've learned now that men
aren't to he Judged by little things Ike that Tom $
turned out a good husband" said the white haired
woman 7-ith peaceful smile.
II toll Ben TO write to me just when he feels IKE
g." said Bens wife
And are mad as a hornet. probably. II ne doesn
write every day.' chuckled the college gfa'ua'e-
y went down to Boston with my aunt one day
and the last thing she said 70 uncle was. Nov"
don't bother 10 write know you're SO busy
Tf,ep when no letter came next day she was hop
ping. teIegra phed 10 know what the matter was.
..rs,,- don't see said tho two years wife to the
ten wears wife how you and Ben can enjoy your
vacation apart Why. half our fun-Franks ana
n1ine-iy doing things together Even II We didn
care for the same things originally we'd grow 70
Tx. then, because of liking TO he with each other
Wait till you've been married a long time said
the unmarried risanthrope. "Anybody's a bore ~
no or she ts with YOU all the time. Husbands and
u ives ought to separate every now and then for
little while on principle Then married people
wouldn't pail on each other So
NV husbands such baby. he's 1slpless without
me That's why I never leave him said the little
woman in pink
My husband gets along beautifully without me-"
said the big woman I'm blue. That's why never
| leave him
| DO you really believe husbands and wives can't
| stand being together AL the time-that they grow
n bore each other?" asked the engaged girl. visit
| fully.
MY child said the spnster in the corner. love
| that won't stand the test of constant companion
| shin isn't love And love that won't stand the test
| Of absence isn't love But It's my belief that when
two peopie are rightly mated each enjoys thing
IN. more for the others being there and they aren
really content apart
.'Clfnging vine" said Ren's wife