Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1909-07-16
Staying Home Was
Monoionous
But Nevertheless Stokes
Opposed a Change.

Stokes after dinner the other evening,
"and that is were going to go sut
more. This thing Of incoming around
home all the time can be overdone-
from now on we're going around
/ occasionally. We've been sticking
around here evenings getting old be
! fore our tire And it's up to us to
/ ginger up a bit and get out to gee
/ our friends more or we won't have
any friends. Makes people all go to
( seed to stay right in their shells week
in and week out. Yes, sir. And from
now on were going to operate on q
different system
I've often thought the same thing,
agreed Mrs. Stokes, but / supposed
you preferred being at home in the
evening. Lots OF times I've wanted
to go out but didn't like to suggest it
when you seemed so comfortable at
home and so Interested in you pa
pers."
We'll. there's evidently been some
misunderstanding" went on Stokes
agreeably, for / don't like anything
better than to have an evening of so
cial diversion now and then. It's just
what / need. Mans a social being and
if he doesn't enjoy the society of other
people occasionally outside of business
hours there's something abnormal
about him, that's all"
Wed better take in the Bronson's
musicale, then" suggested Mrs
Stokes It's week from tomorrow
night and we're sure to be invited
Mrs. Bronson was saying somethine
about it the other day"
IAN right nodded Stokes. but
was just about to say that l had tick
cts for the theater tomorrow night
So don't make any other plans for
then"
Stokes remarked that he'd had a
rather strenuous day when he got
home the next evening. After supper
ne lay down on the lounge.
Better be getting ready if we want
to be at the theater on time" sug-
gested Mrs. Stokes shortly after seven
o'clock.
Hugh" grunted Stokes, with a
yawn, this was the night we were go
ing to the show. isn't it? Well, be get
ting your things on, and III be ready
when you are"
Somebody was telling me. remark
ed Stokes, as they were leaving the
fiat, that the show isn't so much good
after all. I'm not as keen about it As
l was" Then they went on and waited
for the car.
After dinner, one week later, Stokes
put on his slippers, got into an old
lounging coat and leaned back in the
big chair with satisfied expression
while he looked over the paper. Then
having finished the paper, he went
over and got couple of his pipes
to clean them up. This. always used
to be my favOrite smoke-this pipe
right here" he confided to Mrs
Stokes, but it's got SO caked up lately
It'll scarcely draw at all. Now's a good
time to clean II up. Then after l get
through that I've got a magazine there
with couple OF cracking good stories
want to read to YOU
You'll scarcely have time to do alz
hat, will your" inquired Mrs Stokes
smiling. You know this is the night
If the Bronson's musicale It's aboua
ime you were getting into your dress
suit now. I've got your shirts and
tuds all laid out for You"
What's thati" Stokes looked up as
tartled as if a stranger had come
long and hit him in the eye with 2
ried egg. Musicale, You say? Haven't
GU been little previous in accepting
Invitations to such things without con
ulting me? You know very well how
stand on trotting around in the even
az IN a dress suit. When | get through
York at the Office l want to come
hat | want to do. And it isn't much
est for me to go chasing around with
lot of pinheads that imagine they're
eriving enjoyment out of the kind on
o-called classical stuff they play ar
lese musicale things. There isn't one
erson in 400 that really likes to sit
nd look pleased over that teedle-te-
ley make an awful bluff about fairly
oting on just such highbrow vocal
nd instrumental palaver. Mushl
"Where'd you get the idea l was
iliing to be dragged out TO such bore
,me affairs as that, anyway, ard talk
lot of lightweights that don't
low enough to carry liver to bear
said we ought TO go out more? Did
/? o. yes, and l suppose l had just
Ich a. affair as this musicale in mind
o. That sounds about like me
sh! Nice spirit on your part TO take
vantage of chance remark of mine
at 1 was willing TO go out in the.
ening With you once in a while-if
lid say such a thing. o, well. sup
Sc In up against it now. Wels
We TO go to the Internal thing. But