Omaha daily bee., 1915-08-25

cred, ltstless.
grouchy men go NN%Gx
ing down to the ~ vi NJ
Grand Central to
see their wives eff for the summer, and
the same line of dead-game sports, with
mats set at a wicked angle, who fox-trot
away from the station after wifey's car
pulls out. always make me think of the
before and after taking pictures of the
pstent medicine advertisements, while
a six months real widower always goes
about looking as If he had got money
from home"
Il don't see where the women who
have nothing to do but keep house outt
into this vacation business, anyway
objected tho Bookkeeper; pretty fierce
1 call It. for the wife who doesn't need
IT, TO get hike around to all the glad
spots, when the poor husband. who needs
a rest, has TO stay in town and hold
down his job.
"Oh. it's a double-action blessing"
exclaimed the Stenographer; ''the wife
is travelling for her husbands health
How is that?" inquired the Book
keeper.
shes giving hubby a rest and
change" responded the Stenographer,
ANY woman who has wrestled with the
servant question for a year; who mas
thought Out 1895 regular meals and
few extra ones; who has had to cater
20 N family that demanded Delmonico
fare on a quick lunch expenditure. and
had to sew, and twist, and turn and
spraddle dollar over hve-spot Voio'
has earned holiday.
$50 has the husband, and II he can't
get away from his business, the next
best thing is to get away from the clack
of his wife tongue, the noise OF the
children, tho everlasting monotony Oh
home cooking. and the bondage of keep
ing rules. 1t rests you. you know to slip
the collar"
Il should think too much Maria would
get on a fellows nerves." suggested the
Bookkeeper.
sure thing" replied the Stenographer,
when people get to boring each other
they take to throwing the hammer just
for diversion and to liven things up. II
most couples were married only three
days a week, instead of seven, matrimony
would be a glad, sweet thing. instead of
a scrapping-match.
You have to get away from even the
people that you love every now and then
TO get n focus on their virtues, just like
you have to board for while to get a
line on all the comforts of home. That's
what makes the summer vacation life
saving station for married folks"
Maybe you're one" assented the
Bookkeeper.
"oh, I'm Solomon all right" agreed the
Stenographer; ''you have to give absence
a chance TO make the heart grow fonder.
When a woman starts off on summer
vacation. she is sizing her husband up as
an ordinary sort OF dub, who doesn
shave as often as he ought to, and has a
neasly little soul that doesn't soar above
the stock market, and as she looks at
him she wonders what made her marry
him
Before she has been away from home
a week she gets out his photograph and
thinks how handsome and distinguished
looking he is. In two weeks more she has
worked up a halo and encircles his noble
brow with IL. and by the time that sum
mer is over he is once more the romantic
hero of her youthful dreams.
Same way with the man. If he IS de-
cent he runs a bluff about how sorry he
is TO see the wife go. and how lonely he
will be without her; but in his heart he
is thinking how he is going to whoop
things up while she is gone, and how
Joyous Il is going to be to come home any
old hour at night without having to make
n sneak-in.
For the first week he tears things up
with both hands. He makes a night Of 1t
with the boys and makes up with head
ache and dark brown taste OF remorse
in his mouth. He sits in a little game
and gets sleepy and then he begins to
find out that domesticity doesn't fit you
20 be a rounder and that II you are used
TO going 10 bed at 10 you don't want to
be kept up until a. m.
He soon tires OF having to think what
he wants to eat at restaurants and when
he finds out that he can't locate his
clean clothes without a search warrant he
begins to appreciate the love. fussy but
reliable, that takes care OF him, and by
the time his Mary comes home In the fal
she is once more the angel that he wooed
and won, and he wouldn't trade her of
for a whole pony ballet"
"Tve noticed that the summer widoweI
n gutter" said the Bookkeeper.
a. "Right-o," said the Stenographer. "and
as promoter OF domestic peace and
happiness there IS nothing like the sum
uier vacation for wives