Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-09

there and that same little old feeling liz
going to last for two or three days.
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And you clomp down to the Job on the
morning or morning after that following
your return. and the old familiar streets
look too blamed old and familiar to you,
and the blue serge suits at $40 per copy
on the persons Of your friends are sadly
faded and hitched up in various spots
since your departure, and the grass Is
long and NANCY in lot OF the yards,
and the away-for-the-summer boards are
still up on a lot Of the finer houses that
you pass and the friends that you stop
to talk with are meticulouSly meuculous
to refrain from asking you ono solitary
thing about your summer vacation, be-
cause they don't want you to pin em
against a stanchion and tell EN- all ABOUT
it in ia volumes, embellished with 1.O98
blue prints; and when you pull out the
drawers Of your desk you find that the
mice and the cockroaches have been play
ing hide and seek in 'em every day and
night since you went away: and when
you take up the old grind you find that 1t
comes parlous hard, and you sort
glance wistfully out OF the window and
wonder what the lucky ones that stayed
behind at the vacationizing place are do
ing this morning, with the hne breeze
IIIdL you KNOW Is DlOW1IB tHSIc 5lI OeCiA-
ing the flags out taut, and You know
that the sea even the little river that
you've left behind must look mighty hne
and cool and whipping on such a morn
ing, and then you take to tho grind again
and hate it, and wonder why the deuce
things couldn't be so that you'd never
have to come from your vacation until
you got good and ready; and. taking 1t
all in all, Heloise, there really has been
heap of exaggeration as to the glorious
ness Of this thing Of coming back from
your summer vacation.
It's a good deal worse, too. with the
young unmarried Teller who gets back.
Not being shelved person. he has had the
perfect legal right. during all Of the period
of his vacatiOning, to engage In that
engaging and wholly innocuous youth
full folly known as Looking En- Over. He
has even been permitted to engage great
many of them in conversation. sentiment
al. kidful or otherwise. And when he
sees the dome Of the Capitol and the
aforesaid stately steeple called the Wash
tngton Monument out of the car window
on his return his mind Is just naturally
bound to be plugged plumb full OF men,
cries of these memorable. IL simple. fol-
lies. 1t is quite within the range OF pos
sibility that the remote thing in young
mans mind called the imagination has
been captiyated by one or other OF the
Young Persons Technically known as
Dolls he has met and been either kidful
I
pected that the sight Of the Old. Familiar
Things is going to arouse any huge
amount of chtrk or chirpiness within his
bosom when he grabs a car in front of
the station and thrusts his suit case on
top of the feet Of the pay-as-you-enter
conductor and wonders misera,bly wheth-
er the bed of the room in his boarding
house has been made up since the morn
ing he went away. a month ago.
And 10! It's Just as hard for the girl (still
unattached) who has to come home in
the midst OF something important and
hear 'em all talking about what q glo-
rious thing 1t is to get back from the
summer vacation.
1t is always perfectly safe to assume
that the still unattached girl has to leave
not one. but several importants In the
way of attachments behind her when
she's called back by the stern dictum Of
the parents, who are also coming back
ana desire her to return on the same
train with them. And it's q grueeome
thought with her that the half dozen or
SO other lockers who've remained at the
place where she's vacationized are just
as nkely as not toye absorbed the at
tentions and the blithe conversation Of
Cholly just as soon her train pulled out
OF the station, and for several DAYS she
walks around with an absorbed, sad and
sweet air, very much Elaine after Launce-
lot has handed her the raj-ma-tai. and
wonders what's the good OF having a
father and mother and a home. ANYHOW
and can't she go in for settlement work.
and become known as an angel OF mercy
IN the squalid quarters, and a hull lot OF
other sad and sweets OF that general de-
Scrfption.
But the worst part OF that getting.
backbone thing is that always there are
four or five fiends in human form. closely
associated with you. who haven't taken
their vacations yet. and who ara inst
about to make start on their vacations
on the day after you arrive home.
There is something extraordinarily cruel
ana sinister and mephistophelean about
these persons.
-.
They know that tho thfre n an over
Tor you for another twelve-month. They
know that you're suffering from extreme
depression under the consideration oil
this fact. And the first thing they do is
TO nudge up to you and to tell you how
perfectly and unprecedently cool and fine
the weather has been In town ever since
you went away on your vacation. They
inform you that they've really been COM |
PEELED to sleep under blankets on a great
many evenings since you went away, and |
then, when they see this barb quivering
anu siiSiHS III your Sdu Lr6fnO In6y Work
out q hint about those terrible warm
spells that have been known so often to
hop along right in the middle Of Sep
tenlber.
When they see what q panic this throws
you In. they exude q crack or so about |
the wisdom OF waiting until the end OF |
the season to take your vacation, when |
the yacationizing resorts are not SO !
crowded; when you can move around in |
comfort without sweltering; when the ex- |
orbitant summer charges for hotel ac-
are scaled down to the fall |
schedule. and all that sort Of thing.
Then. as II by way Of a little oh-by-the- !,
way, they hurl 1t at you that they them
selves are just about to depart on their |
vacations. II they are past mon
sters at this art they'll go right on and |
in the Office df they're workmates Of /
yours employed in your offlce) are going |
to be hideously brisk during the coming
month, and they pat themselves on the
back over their foresight in having |
lodged the early vacation in order to duck
this accumulation OF work at the fag end |
of the vacation season. Then, all dolled |
ters of, they appear to bid you goodbye:
and they go their way. with sardonic
grins, taking your hatred (even II IL be |
only OF the temporary kind In large
globular chunks with them.
Gal-lorious to Get Home Again After
the Vacation?
Oh. maybe. mehbe. But there are glo-
bet an Oregon apple that nine readers out |
of ten would be willing to admit a. much /
IL q secret ballot were taken.
CLARENCE L. CULLEN. !