Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-26


very early on a recent hot
morning, and then pro-
ceeded to squirm and cough until Mrs.
Grump. too. was aroused from slumber.
How you can sleep as you do gets me.
I'll bet you could sleep on an implanted
tin roof at high noon on the sizzlingest
day OF the year. without once turning
over. You're a wonder at the sleep stun,
believe me.
well, I've just been thinking, tossing
around in this furnace OF a bed. about
what crafty mugs these fellows are that
don't get married. Vince. but they're the
wise old owls. 1 know dozens of em
that right now are getting ready to izz-
gig around on the Adirondack lakes, and
hit up the Atlantic City Boardwalk. and
josh the old frumps that consider 'eni
eligibles for their daughters at all of the
fine. cool summer resorts; ready TO have
a bully unincumbered, cool time of 1t at
the nifty summer places. with nobody to
bother or hinder them, nobody to report
to. nobody to expect 'em to get home on
the minute or stand for a rough-house
or the weeps, and all that great stun.
while /
"Ha, ha. What's the use Of talking
about my fool little game? I'm just roll
ing around here, waiting for the minute
to pop for me to hop up and swallow a
cup of bum coffee and then bolt of to
Of IT, JUST the all m hswss Be-
that fetches the stuff, and has to walk
the chalk line and do things on the min
ute, or else have the dickens raised with
me all the time. I'm one OF the dished
that's what I am. and 1 reckon 1 might
just as well make up my mind to II now
as any other time. When q fellow is
bonehead enough to get his neck in the
IT. Ill vt,x han - "a
him to stand the gaff, and 1 guess may
be done have to stand it.
Here I am. living in a dinky- nat, hot
tern Tophet, and never getting any
where without having to drag the whole
works along-oh, l knew a heap when /
rugged things this way, didn't l?
Yes. and II 1 do take you along with
me in an attempt to get away from the
heat, why, what recreation would there
be in that for me? l know everything
you're going to say before you as mucn
as open your mouth.
LOOK here, now. stop that. will you? I
haven't said that you were stupid. l
only said that we're tOgether-buckled to-
gether-so blamed much that / know all
Of your ideas by heart, and what a man
needs Is q little bunch of somebody else's
ideas once in a while, doesn't hey l tell
you what, the people that say that mar
ried folks ought to get away from each
other for q certain portion of each year
they're the ginks that know what they're
talking about
What's that? Don't I think that
woman feels occasionally as IL she'd like
to get away from the nat and the hum
drummy life, too? There you go! Haven't
l suggested a million times that you go
out and visit your folks on the Indiana
farm? And every time / slip in SO much
as word of suggestion that you rattle
out there to the farm and see your people.
why you flare Up as IL somebody was
trying to put up a job on you to get you
trapped in Jail.
However, to get back to the fOxiness Of
these chaps that just give the merry boot
to scheming woman folks that try to en-
snare them into matrimOny-the more
think of those smart guys the more l ad-
mire 'em. and that's the truth. They ap-
preciate and they keep that inestimable
proposition. namely. freedom. They can't
see this thing Of being at somebody's beck
and call. Doggone 'em. they're just as
free as little brides on brier bush. and
maybe they don't know 1t! When one OF
'em comes to me. laughing In his sleeve
all the time. and tries to spin that TOM
myrot about how lucky the fellows are
that'ye got domestic hearths OF their own.
and all like that. / feel like telling EN-
they belong in vaudeville-theyre too
good at the comedy thing to waste it In
private life.