The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1909-08-14
BY r. p. Dunno

time We reach ye'er destination an on
pack ye'er thrunks an come home
again A frind iv mine, a prominent
railroad officyal who calls tn thrains
at tn Union Deepo tells me he's cured
his wife iv wantin' to go on a vaca.-
tion. Whiniver he sees her readtn'
advertisements iv TIL summer resorts
he knows that tn flt Is comm, on an
oefure she gets to tn stage iv buyin'
cure fr freckles he takes her down
70 IN deepo an shows her tn people
goin' on their vacations an comm
BACK. Thin he gives her boat ride
IN IN park, takes her to tn theaytre
an Tn next mornin' she wakes up with
naasToy amy sign iv her indisposition.
But tn kind iv vacation / take
ooes We some good. It is well within
me means. In fact It sildom costs me
annytnlng but now an thin tn thrade
Nv customer that give a bottle Nv
pop to whin he asst fr a gin sour, not
KNOWN that at tn minyit was Will
IN me time away in tn Greek islands
or climbin' Mount Vesoovyous. / don't
nave to carry amy baggage. l don't
pay amy railroad fares. I'm not
bothered be mosquitoes or rain. In
fact It's on rainy days that thravel
most, I'm away most iv tn time. I
suppose me business suffers. But what
care |? In tn autumn 1 am pretty
apt to be shootin' In tn Rocky Noun
tatns. In tn winter am lieble to go to
Florida or to tn West Indies or to
Monty Carlo. I'm tn on'y American
citizen that iver beat Monty Carlo
plugged away at number siventeen an
1t came up eighty two times runnin'
'Tis thrue squandered th' money on
tn tickle Countess de Brie, but aisy
come aisy go. Me disappointment was
soon f'rgotten among tn gayeties iy
Algeers. / often go up tn Nile because
its handy to tn Ar-rchey road. can
get back befure bedtime. In summer
may go to Newport although 1t Amt
tn place 1t was whin first wint there.
1t was simple thin. People laughed at
Clarence Won Steenwant because he
wore hat encrusted In dimons in
stead iv tn rough 4an' ready Eoold
bonnet that we grabbed firm tn rub
bish iv old pearl necklaces an mar
redge CERTIFICATES on tn hall table
whin We wint OUT to play tennis. 1t
has changed since. But there are still
a few REPRESENTATIVES iv tn older mem
berships iv tn stock exchange who
cannot lave tn familyar scenes an i
like to dhrop in on these pathricyans
an gossip iv days that ar-re no more. |
Faith, there's hardly place that I'd
don't spind me summers If I don't
like a place I can move. l sail me
yacht into sthranRe harbors. I take me
private car WHEREVER I want to 60. |
hunt an fish. Last year wint to
Canada an. hshed fr salmon. made
great catch-near thirty cans An
whin I'm tired can go to bed. An
IT Is bed, not rough sketch iv q
brick yard
Well well, what places have been.
An ! always see thin at their best.
Tn on'y way to see anny place at its
best is niver to go there. No place
can be thruly inyea;bIe whin We have
to take ye'ersiIf along an pay rent
f'r him whin We get there. An wan iy
tn gr-reat comforts iv my kind iv /
vacation is that always know what's
goin' on at home. Whin Hogan goes
on his kind " vacation tn newspa-aper
he gets was printed just afther tn
third inning iv tn baseball game tn
day befure yisterdah. Th' result Is that
4 @AOG~NAt
know what's happened. He doesn't
know who's been murdered or wheth-
er Chicago or Pfttsburg is at th' head
iv tn league.
AN summer Is tn best time Nv tn
year fr news. TIL heat an sthrong
dhrink brings out pleasant peculyari-
ties In people. They do things that
make readin' matther They shows
signs iv Janus. Ivrything in tn pa
aper inthrests men, Here's tn. inside
news iv cillybrated murdher thrile
biosson1in' out in TIL heat Here's a
cillybrated lawyer goin to tn cilly-
brated murderer an demandin' an
increase in tn honoraryum iy his cil-
lybrated coilague Lawyers don't take
money. What they get fr their public
sarvices In deludin' Jury is tn, same
as an offerin' Ia church Ye don't
give 1t to thin openly. Ye sind thin
a bunch Nv sweet peas with tn money
in it, This here larned counsel got
wan honoraryum. But whin things