The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-15

i on hand, you'd be even more exhausted by having to stay indoors. I think rainy days are sent we used to believe about sickness, to teach people lessons What sort of lessons?" he asked, grouchily.
 'oh, sort of desert island lessons she replied, airily. About how to amuss- one's self. Most of us have no resources within ourselves and we are dependent upon our association with people and work and office surroundings and thinks like that
 The average man in business" she continued, thinking she was getting the pest or the argument, '.is dependent upon ms business associates not so much for what they mean to him in a business way, but for the habit of companion snip. When the average business man goes away on vacation, he can't think of but one thing, and that is how his ex- periences will sound when he tells them on his return over lunch downtown to Jones and Brown, his boon companions That's where the sting of a rainy day comes in
 Tn spite of your arguments" the mere man asserted again, there's no use of rainy day"
 "A rainy day should be all to the modern man. she told him solemny,
 that Sunday was destined to be to the ancient, a day when he can sit apart and consider his relation to the universe. On sunny days let him labor and do his work ,, but when most high heaven sends day every hour of which is surrounded by rain he ought to take the pleasure it brings. The opportunity to cut himself off from the rest of the world and invite his soul with book or by doing some of the old fashioned things people used to do on Sunday before the call of the caddy' was heard in the land or when men were tstx tr i'm
 T believe l remember the ancient story about the devil catching the fellow who went a-fishin' of Sunday"
 Those were the good old days she mocked, when men believed in the devil.
 Well. mo-" the mere man replied. ''They didn't believe in him any more. but they were just more 'skeered' of him"
 And when you ceased to fear the devil then you lost your old time Sunday. and now when rainy day is sent here and there as a substitute designed to supply the needs engendered by the od-time Sab- bath keeping habit you grnmble and con- plain world without end she declared.
 "Of course,' he answered quickly. What in the Sam Hill is the sense of anything you can't protect yourself against? There's no use of automobiles and airships and wireless and refrigerat- ing plants and radium when we haven't, even protection against rainy day"
 Who was 1t that said that a woman 1n an argument is like a person lost in the woods?" she asked That she always ends exactly where she begins, because she moves in circle?"
 Exactly the mere man replied. That's the way a woman argues
 Seriously speaking, though. isn't rainy day perfect joy and wasn't the woman precisely right?
 What can you do on rainy day?" you ask.
 Manicure your nails.
 Shampoo your hair Darn your stockings.
 Answer the letters that should have been answered months ago. Read poetry and fairy tales and the lat est "six best sellers
 Or
 Best of all. you can get out your good, old shioned Bible and read a sermon from St. Paul and atone for some of the numerous Sundays when we left undone those things which be ought to have done, and
 Well
 There's always The Competent Ang- ler,'
 And
 Have you, or you, or you ever taken long, delicious rainy day to read the med itations of wise man called Marcus Au- relius Antonius?