Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31
Getting a Rest From Grinding Routine
Sometimes Ends in Marvellous Climax
BY NINA WILCOX PUTNAM.

S Ishmahallah. the great East
~ ern Put and Take, once said to
~ his Dancing Dervishes, Boys,
4 \ what YOU need is a little rest
and change; no one can Keep
up the breakdown YOU are dancing
without inviting a breakdown of the
other sort, and believe YOU me, the
invitation will sure be accepted
And the truth of this wonderfully
original bit of medical advice certainly
appealed to | and George, that's my
husband, not long ago when we was
pretty near at the end of our tether.
/ amt exactly sure what Il tether is,
but | know everybody has one, and
that sooner or later they come to the
end Of it the same as with their APP
pendiXeS, SaViugs-accounts and etc.
Well anyways, we was both Of us at
the end of ours. and without the faint
est idea of where were We to get an
other, all due to overWork. / and
he got TO talking it over one night.
| tell you what. says George, l am
absolutely wore out with the strug-
Sle TO keep going. Sometimes l Won
der is il really worth the trouble after
all, where will my efforts land us any
ways? We will never be rich, great
suffering fishcakes. he says, | wisht
we was rich like them J. John
Goofnahs, and could be down to Palm
Beach, just laying around in the sun
shine, doing nothing but beach comb
ing and throwing dollar bills for the
bell-hops to dive for and such idle
sports, he says. Gee ii must be great
10 do absolutely nothing like them
millionaires do. or l should say, don't,
only think what a rest that must be.
Eut he says, do l get TO do 1t? No.
My dish is out of bed before it's light,
but not before it's cold, shake myself
into my pants, shake the furnace,
shake the snow off the door mat, shake
Il little coffee down my throat, and
beat it into the train for town. And
from then on, it's one long, restless
struggle, commencing with a free-for-
all to get a seat. to reach the subway
alive, at the other end, to get into it
without being squoZe fiat. TO suffer the
sings and arrows and elbows of the
mob, and then wreStle all day with my
Job at the office with the refreshing
prospect of making that trip in dupli-
cate when the days work is alleged to
he done.
| tell you what. Jennie. says George,
] amt got the strength for it, and I'm
about ready to cash my last cheque,
Heavens knows it don't seem right for
some fellers to have all the best of it,
leisure, sunshine, rest and enjoyment
the same as them GoofnahS, and |
have to work and live like do. There
amt no justice.
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HOT BOzO. says, why George Jules,
listening to your line, why any
person would think you had d corner
on all the hard luck in the world.
How about me? Maybe you think it
rests me TO get up and start your
coffee at seven GIN. and that the one
ambition l got is to live the miserable,
narrow life do, with only my Ladies'
Thursday Club for intellectual ac-
1ivity? I wouldn't very much care to
lead the life of Riley for a while. my
self, oh no! I don't need no rest. or
change or anything, not very much.
Big-hearted Luke. you are, think
ing only of yourself. but If you be-
lieve the clank of dirty dishes is music
10 my ears now, the way it admittedly
was the first week we was married,
we'll, If you believe that. you better
change. on account am fully as tired
cut as you are. When I think of
them Goofnahs basking idly in the
sun. being wheeled around Palm
Beach in OUTSIDE baby carriages. rest
ing and relaxing again and again in
the peaceful quiet, could bite nails.
Well. just as 1 got through saying
this, what would blow only the post
mans whistle, and l went and
answered, and Of all things. it was a
letter from Florida and the Goofnahs,
and for one awful second I had the
same feeling as when you have been
talking about a person and they sud
denly walk into the room. The letter
was addressed to / and Geo. both
and 1t run to this effect.
1.-The Breakus. Palm Beach, Fla. :.
Dear Jennie and George:
"Well dear friends. here we are
down in Florida, as you perhaps al
ready guess from the above address
Everything is lovely and we wish all
our friends could share it. especially
the expense. But dear friends, ow-
ing to the fact every time we turn
over, we also turn over a big profit
on real estate, we are writing to ask
will you both come down on a visit?
Now don't be offended, take it in the
spirit in which 1t is offered. we don't
want it to cost you one cent, we will
stand r. r. fare and all. So please
accept inclosed way tickets, wire us
what train to meet and come along