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reason with a woman?
''Of course YOU mean that for a slam
and YOU intend il TO stick as a slam, and
10000 years of argument. therefore.
wouldn't enable you to zee it in any other
light than the light you pretend, purely
for slamming purposes. to see it in. You
know perfectly well, of course, that, a a
general thing, a mans poker playing
equalizes itself I'm the matter OF winnings
and losings in the course of a year, and
if I've fallen few pennies behind I'm the
course of the last year. why, it's a pipe
that
But wait minute. Come to think Of
it. who ever told you that it was part of
your business to hang around my chair
when I'm playing a little innocent home
game of cards with my friends here-who
ever told YOU it was up to you to keep tab
on what / win lose, hey? Be good
enough to answer me that question.
However, as / was saying, my own ex-
penses amount to practically not thing and
If | ever managed to snag out a fifty
dollar bill, all my own to blow I'm any
way / wanted to. why I'D be SO bughouse
over it that I'd be hopping around i'm
circles on one leg. and
'On. well, what's the use? Ny end of
the game is To just plug along like old
hawss Dobbin. and l s'pose I ought to he
tickled TO death that ! get even my boa ri
and room out of my earnings. That's
what"
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garet is gay with yachts and the craft
of aquatic friends bound for the deep
seas.
For several years past the Countess
de Buisseret has come over with her
boys 20 spend the summer with her
mother. Summer in northern Africa is
not to be endured If one can avoid il,
and, having to journey some place away
from the Moroccan capital. it seemed
as easy to set sail from Gibraltar for
her native land.
The marriage of Miss Caroline Story TO
Count Conrad de Buisseret. then in a
minor position in the Belgian legation,
took place nearly twenty years ago in the
Church of Our Lady. Old Point Comfort.
General. then Col. Story, was in charge
of Fortress Monroe, and his daughter was
one of the most popular bellies OF the
famous resort The wedding was the
event of the season, and the guests came
from the four quarters of the earth. IL
seemed. Count de Buisserat had been
transferred, and took his bride almost al
once to Brussels. and after that to Paris.
He has had an unusually successful career
in his chosen profession, his promotion
10 Washington now ranking among the
most important posts in the Belgian for
eign service. He has filled the position OF
minister at Tangier for the past four
years with entire satisfaction to his sec
rotary of foreign affairs and the capital
10 which he was sent The countess at
tanned wide popularity in the social
realm, and was easily the most influential
hostess in the corps She enjoyed life IN
that fascinating region. but she has
reached the supreme desire of her life. TO
have her husband accredited minister
TO her home city. Her devotion TO her
parents is one of her most admirable
qualities. Countess de Buisseret is this
sister of john =. story. jr., we'll known IN
Washington's social and business world.
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wear silk stockings around the house all
day? OF course j have no doubt that the
Duchess de Kackkyack wears silk ones
all day long, even when she's working in
her kitchen, making corn bread for the
hired men on her estate. but what has
the Duchess of kackkyack got to do with
the Grump family? OF course. if I could
afford 1t. / wouldn't mind your wearing
every minute while you're awake. silk
stockings that could be passed through an
infants finger ring, but when you come
to reflect upon how | have to toll and
mol all the time to-
flows that? You got those four pairs
of silk stockings at marked-dovn sale
for 50 cents pair? oh, / might have
known you'd have something all fixed up
like that to pull on me.
Nevertheless, it all SINNERS down to
this, that / haven't got fighting chance
on earth to. put away a ten-cent piece,
and you know it. | wouldn't mind 1t so
much if ! myself were getting anything
out of life, but all / get out of the game
is a place to sleep and something to eat,
and any hod carrier or lumbefiack gets
that much. l hardly ever spend five
dollar note on myself, outside of the most
bedrock necessities, from one months end
to the other, and
Flows that? You saw me lose S64 in
that poker game here at home the other
night? Well, what dye think o. that.
But, shucks, what's the use of trying to
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GETS BACK FROM HIS MONTHS LEAVE @rd--[&&R=%

YOU haven't been away for more than a
month. have you even if II does seem
like those two thousand years hitherto
mentioned.
You become nervous, restless. and YOU
walk up and down. You find it hard
to keep still. to settle down.
Let's See-you say to yourself-at this
time of the evening. at the place where
you were vacationizing, the girls all APP
peared in their pretty scenery. and the
boys popped. too. in their nifty togs and
all hands went and listened to the music
of the band. or strolled around talking
a heap of agreeable nothingness. and life
was a song. a chant, muted hum; glee
was in the air, work was AS far from
here to Neptune. Washington was hull
down on the horizon. and
b jinks. you certainly do find ii hard
to settle down. though.
You begin TO wonder what you're going
to do. Certainly you're. not going to
spend the whole evening kicking around
doing that. after the fun you've been hav-
ing of evenings.
Somebody goes out and fetches back the
fox terrier pup that you left at a neigh
bor's during your absence. and the pup
almost goes crazy with delight over your
return, and you fool around with him
for a while and try to compose your
mind and forget that you've ever been
on a vacation in your life But it's no
go. that forgetting thing. Not any go
whatever.
You haven't much of an idea what
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es another little wisp of buck-up cheer
into YOU and YOU go down and drink
the coffee and eat the hastily fixed sar-
dine sandwiches that folks just back
from their vacation have to eat to save
cooking, because, of course, there's no
time to send for the maid of all work
and by the time you're through with
the coffee and sandwiches, why, there's
you look out of the window at the
steaming asplaltum and YOU don't hate
it quite SO much as you thought you
would. although you sure don't love it,
either.
4 neishbor passing, sees you sitting
there in the window and he hands you
the howdy, and you invite him in, and
he tells you what a fine coat of tan
you've got and asks you about the kind
of time YOU had, and you tell him
about the kind of Il time you had AT
great length and with a wealth of mag
cry and detail. and then he tells you why
the Washington bali club has lost SO
many games, because, .y'see- oh. yes,
you see all right. You beg him to de-
sist that ball talk. You see all you want
to see. anyhow.
The same folks pass up and down the
wearing just about the same wash dresses
that they We're wearing before you beat
it out of town. IS a wonder, you say
to yourself, they don't get some new
dresses for 'emSelves-until you suddenly
remember that, after all. a wash dress
ought to last for a few months. and
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and more or less unnecessary dentist S
bills of yours. .
What ails Your teeth. anyhow: don |
see anything the matter with en- lneS
look all right from where ! sit. Mighty
serviceable looking set of teeth. In my
opinion Only wish mine were as gooo.
NV teeth have been botherinG the dickens
out of me for years, but that doesn I
make me feel as if i could anord TO
hike off and hand a dentist the major
part of my income to tinker around with
'em. Different with you, though, naturally.
Different with anybody that doesn't have
to dig and grind and toll and sacrlhce
and slave to get the money. I'll bet you
wouldn't spend so much time thinking OIL
fanciful and needless jobs for dentist
if Won had to hustle out and try to earn
dollar A dollar always did look IKE
tintas to you, anyhow. You've got an
idea peopIe get money out of lake, or
a well. or something.
"And ! don't know where you get that
contempt for coin. either. blamed If do.
It's sure thing you don't get 1t from
YOUR people. because none of them ever
had a copper to bless 'emselEes Win.
us rare thing for me to complain, but
want 10 say this. that it's pretty soft for
a woman to break loose from her FAMILY
that only had enough to eat on tiis
Fourth of July and Christmas, and IL
I'm with a man that lavshes every thing
he can rake and scrape and beg and Dor
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inpton 8 month ago. Do the 18th street
cars still run all I'm bunch. and then
nary a car for couple of weeks! iS
Cautillon still manager? Have they got
through cleaning the outside OF the star
building? Has the
WHY. yes, here's the Union station.
looking Just about the way II iooked VI
tho day YOU abandoned Washington lot
Your vacation a month ago. just aoou.
the same Queer, too. You q SORT U
expected to find signs of age about the
hi,iIding-maybe broken column mere
and there, and that sort of thing. Same
old building though, you find. Same
tip-expectant white-coated walters De-
hind the eating counter. same small man
with huge voice calling off the stations
through a megaphone. same tlred-iook-
ing women with babies waiting TOT .he
train to take 'em to Point o ROCKS
wherever that is same every Ola tnins.
Mighty peculiar, considering the Two
thousand years or So-tn experiences
you started OIL on youf
vacation You can't understand 1t at all:
AS YOU make the door to hail taxi
or grab car, you're still further aston
isIed. There's the looming cameo-like
Monument there's the Capitol dome SUI
rearing its proud head-has dome a
head and everything your eye lights
IInon still looks about the same. Singh
lar. Even the newsboys outside the
station look pretty much the same as
they did. They haven't raised any 1uli;
flowing boards or anything. wen, wei
Then you get home and stick the Key
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some other folks

some OthFf IuFkS IIdte' 10 o''lr' UT
their vacations. But this isn't about
starting off It's about getting back
You've been away for a hull long liz
gigging- around month. YOU know. and
then YOU have to nudge back to get on
tie job and hold it down.
BY the time your month away has been
put in, Washington seems so remote. so
far away. So-er-so dim and distant and
vague and things, that. really. you can't
contrive to force yourself to believe that
you've seen Washington since the autumn
of 1878. or somewhere way back there.
In fact on your way home IN the train
you fall 10 wondering pensiysfy IL every
thing in Washington is anywhere near
the same az it was when you left Wash
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as they are anyhow. Why. for example,
should folks ever have to come back
from their vacation" Why can't they
vacationiZe all tho tincr
Then YOU think bit sullenly. of the
people YOU met while away on your vaca-
ton who never by any chance have to
ever so much as think about that work
nuisa nee. Take, for instance, that young
iden- of the zinc nail trust or something
what does he know about work? Did he
ever have to work in his life? He did
not. And there he is right now, at this
minute, rollicking up and down the long
lake in his twenty -five- knotS-an-hour mo-
tor boat-thc one you rode in SO often
while here you are. back home, waiting
for the cold water to run and the coffee
to simmer. and the smell of the hall
mating is in your nostriis, and it'll he
eleven long months before you'll he able
TO vamooSe away again to the voorhees,
region of romantic lollfuness.
Doesn't seem right: it certainly does
not. And Yet that young fellow from
Wheeling doesn't appear to appreciate
his snap. Fact is. he's good deal OF
and therefore all Of the coin that he
has isn't worth ene-iifteth as much to
him as it. 'ud be worth to you.
Oh, well. shucks, what's the use? You
peel your extraordinarily clothes and flop
into the cold tub and founder around,
and that gives you little cheer. and
then, when you're out of the tub the
smell of the coffee stealing upstairs toss
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row and steal upon her. and without ever
so much as opening his head about her
extravaganza. either. Pretty soft. | call
it. Some women, if they fell into a
perfect snap like that, would appreciate
it. but you take it as perfect matter
of course.
"Hi-hum, So there's another hundred
or SO burned to the ground. or soon TO
go up in smoke. anyhow. in a dentists
bill! Oh. we'll. what's the difference? Ii
it wasn't that it nd be something else.
by the way. l wonder if it ever enters
your head at all that / ought 10 be al
lowed to save little money? Huh
I'm not getting any younger, you know.
I've given heap of thought to the future
already but what can I do in the mat
ter of saving. tied up the way | am?
But I'd like to know what 'ud be-
come of You. all the samee. If / were to
suddenly topple over under the strain of
overwork or get Knocked to splinters by
an automobile or something. Only the
other afternoon l was totting things up.
and l figured out that if it hadn't been
for your wanton wastefulness. your in
difference to anything savoring of man
agement and your habit of letting money
dribble through your fingers, I'd have
been able to save at least thousand
dollars during the past year, and with
out any undue scrimpins, at that.
"Of course thousand dollars doesn't
mean anything to YOU. You read in the
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papers that Mrs. VastorSilt paid $4,000
for an emerald-studded bathing suit or
something like that. aid that kind of
stuff fills your imagination and destroys
what little idea you've had since our
marriage as to the value of money.
dare say You consider me pker for
even mentioning such cheap little bunch
of change a thousand dollars. But
permit me to tell you that when YOU
haven't got a thousand dollars it's pretty
hard to get.
by the way, it's a wonder you don't
go in for spiritualiSm. something like
that. You could attend eight or ten
spiritualistic seances week. YOU know.
and that would enable you to slough off
good deal of spare change. Or why
don't you try electric baths? There are
whole lot of things that you haven t
worked yet that would permit of your
blowing in
''Oh, by the way, this head-rubbing
scheme Of yours. I've been going to
mention that to you. a couple of times
now when I've got home from the Office
I've found. woman here rubbing your
head. What's the answer to that, any
how?
Couldn't you rub your own head? Oh,
you're getting your scalp massaged, are
YOU? Great. | think I'll have my scalp
aged. too. Might just as well as not.
If you're bound and determined to burn
UP the money there's no reason why l
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you're doing ii for. but presently you hike
upstairs and. quite unconscousIy. you
get dressed to within an inch of Your
life. You've been in the habit of logging
that way at this time of the evening.
and you hate to surrender the habit;
can't. In fact. all of sudden this way.
Something within YOU protests about
the quietnesS of things You late the uu-
natural quiet. start something's throbs
the voice within YOU Lets not get into
this rut again. Let's keep jogging along,
Let's play were having vacation all
the time! Come on. feiler-start some
thing
But how?
You think 1t over. You've got to make
some kind of move. That's certain
'Oh. well. lets take car ride out 10
Chevy Chase and back" somebody sug-
geSts.
And you do
And then you know that you're hack
home and that you've got 10 go 10 work
i'll the morning.
You know that
Well. NE started out with the intention
of making this a cheerful. enco,Iraciur
thing: something 10 alleviate the misery
of getting back and IN assuage the poig-
nancy of that going-to-work- after aca-
ton business.
But we've made hash of II because
1t can't be done: it isn't in the cards.
The simple fact of the matter is that
there amt anything cheerful about get
ting home from your vacation, and SO
what's the use?
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ARE VERY BEWLDER1NG TO THE BIBULOUS ONES &1t@

the old stuff, reckon you're right. neigh
Dor. That is what l sure do reckon. Bet
ter lay off 1t for spell. Chuck 1t.
Nothing in it. anyhow. Go get sleep.
Take a sleeping powder if you can't do
it any other way. and nix the redeye
when you get up in the morning, hey?
You'll be all right. Don't worry. Do
you get me?'
The cadaverous man muttered some
thing in his throat, and, talking TO him
self, rejoined the parading throng.
Presently. lifting his eyes, his gaze en-
countered a garter sign. of brilliant il
Elimination. around the border of which
a bright green snake INCREASINGLY chased
it's tail
He swayed over to the inner rail of
the Boardwalk and rested both hands on
the top rung thereof. Then. batting his
eyes and jogging his head. obviously
himself. he lifted his eyes again to that
garter sign. with the snake racing around
the large square border
A young fellow, leaning against the rail
and smoking cigar, noticed these curves
of the cadaverous man, and he was what
is called Jerry to them 'immejit. But he
waited for the tremby one to begin. he
had not long to wait.
Son. said the lank one. looking bit
pathetically at the blithe young man
with the cigar, tell me something. will
YOU? Look up yonder. Do you or don't
YOU see airy serpent licketty- splitting
around that sign on that roof? pointing
to the immense garter sign.
The clipper young man looked up at
the sign and then turned an innocent
noon face upon the lean one.
Serpent" said he, in wondering
kind of tone. Serpent? Did | get YOU
right? Did you say serpent, meaning
snake?"
Serpent or snake said the lean one
in a worried voice They come to the
same thing. don't they? The question is,
do YOU see anything like that up yonder?'
The blithe young man spat rehectiVeiy
at a crack in the boardwalk and shook his
head in a feeling sort OF way
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in the door and-Oh, yes. Isn't it queer.
now, that your first impression. upon
opening UP your home when you get back
from your vacation. is the smell of the
hall mating? 1t isn't unpleasant
smell, but it's an obtrusive aroma the
memory of which sticks in your nos
trils. And. when YOU push your way in,
why, the windows having of course been
closed all during your absence, the smell
of the mating rises up and hits You
and it's honey and familiar and all like
that but it sort o reminds you that
Well that you're back home. sure
enough and that you've got to go to
work tomorrow.
Work. After the fun you've been
having.
Work, After the way you've been
lolling around. defying the clock. except
at meal times, and staying in bed o
mornings till all hours!
Work, After the determined and, on
the whole. successful effort you've made
during the past month to forget that
you ever did such a fool thing in your
life work,
Yes, work, You've got to go to work
in the morning.
Sitting down, then. after throwing open
water to run in the bath tub. and wait :
ing, too. for somebody other to get
the coffee game a going down in the
kitchen-sitting there and Eliminating
about it. with that threnody on the work
theme buzZing in your edr-yOu wonder
why the dickens things should be just
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no time at All since Hau W - -
hundred bucks or so to settle one OF your
continuous performance dentists piiis,
apd il Sl,ra strikes me- HowS that.
You haven't been near dentist for near
" i've wears. and the bill then was
something under $40. oh, sure. sure
thing Cer'nly. l was a fathead ioI
Giving Won that opening. for it was a pipe
you'd say that.
while you're about it, why don't you
make II ten or fifteen years, and then
make the bill about SLIGO. You've got
about as much of an idea OF TIME as o.le
81 those Calapacos turtles that live to
he a thousand years old. burned. II
don't WISH | could stretch out my years
here on earth the way YOU stretch ou.
the intervals between these peflodicai
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nance now is i'm full operation. The ordi-
nance provided that men in bathing suits
should not pass through the streets thus
clad on their way to the sea and back.
Nothing was said about the women and
girl folks passing in their bathing suits
through the streets to and from the
moanful surge.
Kind o funny. that ordinance, when
you see how ii works out.
There are thousands of cottager here,
YOU know. OF course, some of whom
live three and four blocks from the
sea. and these people, men and women.
always have been i'm the habit of DOMINIC
their bathing suits at home. amblinS
down to the sea that way. taking their
dips. and then trudging home to switch
into their everyday toys.
Well. the girls and women still do that:
but the men have 10 wear long. heat
making raincoats over their bathing
suits: and. thus diked, they look like
a passel of mendicant friars as they
wend their barefoot way through the
streets.
The girls and women, with the rain
coated male persons, trot along in their
decollette little suits-some of the di-
rectoire suits worn by them this year
are distinctly shy of material both fore
and aft, so to speak-and the rubbernecks
along the trotting line size 'em up and
sort 'em over and follow em all up and
down the line with their searching gaze.
and it's all right and entirely within
the law. But the male bipeds, needing,
it would seem, more modest screening
for their pulclritudinosity. flap and
breeze by hidden almost TO the ground
in their swaddlins raincoats. and. they
look az diolic over II all as. no doubt.
they feel. And if that wasn't a Chinese
ordinance they passed down here. WHY,
YOU can ask WI Ting fang, and he'll
ask you something else.
CLARENCE l.. CULLEN.
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mark could be truthfully applied to but
very few men," said one of the group.
1t is my firm belief, based upon wide
observation, that most men are coura-
geous in tight pinches. even the men who
ina CINE deep down in their consciousness
that they are instnctively and inherently
cowardly
For an example of what | mean, take
the case of Judge Bosart of Texas. Bo-
CART imagined himself to be coward.
He had never-fcrtunately. he sald-been
put to the test, but he was dead certain
that he would crawtish in a tight place
and reveal himself to all his friends as a
rank coward.
This was before he ever ran Tor a
Texas office When he first ran for office
in Texas town PECULIARLY Nltflohc
editor began to attack Bogart iii man
uer that could mean blood only. Judge
Bogart's friends began to get around hlm
and to tell him that he'd have TO XIII, OF