Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-04-07
ARE MARITAL
LET..UPS A
NECESSITY?
Vacations are being planned now

Vacations are being planned now
Therefore, pause!
A new and wondrous vacation
scheme has been discovered, its adj
vantages applicable, sooner or later
TO the whole human race, including
the multi-millionaires
For the present only the married
| portion need, as was so dramatically
| observed, pause. Yet even those
for whom hesitancy is not urged will
| do well to give the marvellous new
vacation scheme a passing thought
ere they rush headlong toward their
week or SO of bliss with their Darby
or their Joan It'll come iii handy
! in the future.
All England seems to be for it.
| all America seems to be against 1t.
! This not only makes it interesting,
! but highly probable, since the free
and Independent United States seems
| still to rejoice in its thralldom to
the leading-strings of Europe.
Here it is: Let husbands and
| wives arrange to enjoy their vaca-
| tions apart from each other; anil
| wives of the desperately ennuied
! 9EeAlb W NOulG 0tCltIly Htb Itduy VI
do the same wise thing.
amanda" you can observe this
evening-carelessly, you know, just
| like that-"Amanda darling, I've
been thinking over our summers S
vacation"
"Huh!" Amanda darling will eisc-
ulate out of the depths of experience.
| You mean your vacation, l suppose.
| When did I ever get a vacation,
traipsing around, wherever you'd
find the best fishing, or bathing, or
| eating-just you tell me when,
that's ALL"
Amanda, dearest" here you
pass a tender hand gently over the
hair of the Bavarian peasant girl
whom she honors by donning her
combings-'I have felt your dissat-
lsfaction with our vacations for
years. / know l have been selfish,
and it occurred to me last summer
that this thing of making you go 70
places just to suit me is unfair to
you. So | thought, this time, I'd
suggest that you select the place you
would like best and spend all our
regular vacation money just as you
please"
why" demands Amanda, dear
est, after her first gasps of amaze
ment, What are you going to dor
"Oh," you rejoin as guilelessly as
your profound guile will admit, "I1
rustic around sOmehow-go to somo
cheap place or other, and go shy on
the fall suit to make up for my eX-
penses."
There are plenty of them who
won't suspect anything, and plenty
more who, if they do, will be so
tickled to death at the chance that
they'll agree anyway.
And when vacation time comes
around, and you twain go your sep
arate ways, you will both have the
time of your lives for about twenty
! four hours. After that, in steadily
diminishing measure, the joyous eX-
pectations of untrammeled liberty
will continue to be satisfied until, at
the end of the fortnight, you'll be SO
hungry for Amanda darling, and
Amanda darling will be so hungry
for you, that when you meet at home
again it will be a glorious homer
moon all over again.
You see, you will discover that
you aren't such a winner with the
girls as you used to be; and she will
find there is, somehow, a settled look
about her that leaves her pretty
lonely; and both of you will find
that neither can be quite comfor
able with the other dear charmer
away.
That's the theory of it, and it has