VACATIONS APART.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 612, 15 September 1909, Page 3

VACATIONS APART.

■-."Ben'and I start for our holiday.next week,'" said the .woman' who had been married; ten■years. "Ben's going to the Adrondacks to. hunt and fish'for a '-iriodthj and'l'm going; to > the sea? shore.".>•■-'/■ i'';.":;,- V .' ■:.' . i; ( : : ii/^ "You're going to. spend youv vacation -in; dit:ferent.: .tne';.:\VOuianT/:who> had '■■bcenWrried'.-.two years. ." /. . '.'•' ; ' '■ . %%"Yes;whyinot?.:t'BoniiSiOrazy.i .about ; cainps arid hunting. I woods is . the-height Aot. dfscpmf ort v and,;thb : sight, .of, a gun /spoilsvuiy-vncatibn.- 'I'love tha'seashotoi the seaahoro ..bores Ben,, Why ehould'ligive, tip; what ; I like and -pretend -to en joy-things I"doii't eujov,'or Avhy-sKould'he* eacriftce his one an .the , .year/ altar, of'devbtionr lo me?- continued ..the.,:ten jyiv,.;'/ wife,;• tranquilly,-.•"after being.,'Tiway : ;froui:.uy)", for, a -month'Beniappreciates .nie better-.";.; -..-,;: «.:'Tll;wager you;don't'make him.writeHo you. bftener-'• than, once a week, then,"-eaid. c the. novelist,, who .had dropped .in for-tea. i - "No' man's, love .will, the'test,'of .to write a daily.letter,/except, of:'course;:-when, he's:in ; .-the sweeth'earting;stage.". ''■ «:'■ ■ '■'■■ i - /.'- ■■ ' l "When<r "Si' ;was'.--a'- young. ( wife,".. laughed i the • : white-haired woman,:"l went : to/stay with' my parents :fqr a fortnight, and got a "most.- affecl.tionate letter" from Toin "bvefy ""dayViy'l/re-; ■ turned' on 'SatiirdayJ'and-;fo'uiid , .'T6m''laid t up. ! with - a : sprained ' ankle,- received the '.before..'. His■iThursday/:letter, , dated at-mid-night of, that, (layj' began.'this way. -D/arlirig, I'm; 1 very well, but so lonely without you that I had;to;t'ake"a teri-raile.: tramp.this :e.veninß,. just'io shake, off .'the; longing for you;' v TKp' rascal, had. tP /confess;', that 'he .wrote ;th«,'letters for the;> - eek on Sunday, and gavp them to-his : clerk'.to-be'mailed as: the dates.came." . .. "pidn't;'you\feel .dreadfully?" .asked the two jeats' jvife. , j'. . ' ■://'..'.. ;■/ .- ■'■'.•.;■■:■■■■. }',•,.,: '■■;■'■ ... "I cried/then;. but I've learned '.now ''.that men' aren't' tb j be.judged by .little things like that. , .Tom's/ turned out',' a/ good husband," said tae'white-haired woman N with -a 'peaceful .smile.;-:-:::;,•.■/■ .vv'V /■■■;!.,■.- -■ ■'•-' '"■• '*■'":'■■'■'./ -i'.--. • "rtell.Ben.towrito'.to'me'just when He feels like-it," said ■'■ Ben's-iyifo. •; ■■ .-■'.; ,', / .'•■ ."And, are mad :-as a> hornet, if ho doesn't write every day," chnokled the: college graduate.; ,"I went down to Boston 'with my aunt one,day,-,arid the'lost thing she said-.'far my-uncle;,*as,.'Now, don't bother to write. I knpw/you'ro so -busy'.' /Then when/no'letter] came.next: day, she was hopping;.- telegraphed to kno\v:.what.the; matter was.". : ■;,:■.■ ■■--.■'-.' /."But'l dori't-seo," said the two years'-wife ;to/:the.' ten -wife, "how youi/and 'Ben "can enjoy.your'vacation opart, Why, half our fun— doing things r "tb-' gether. vEyen'ar'ive 'didn't oare ; for-the same ' things;originally,- ; we'd ■ grow, to like'' them, -because- of likings to .be'with-each other." - ■'• been married a long time," .said>the.'Unmarried>misirathrope.' "Anybody's ;a.bore;if.he,or she/is with;.you all the time. "Husbands/; and ; iwiyes ought; to: separate every now and-, then' for'- a: little while on-principle;. Then married -people wouldn't\pall on each' .other-so , j! ,-) -:;:'■-■- -■■■:■. ... J ■■;■-.-■.,■ / :/"My/husband's, such : a baby", he's "helpless' without'.me.vvThat'swhyl never leave him", said.the:little'woman : in pink. ■ ■■!'■ '"■■'.-. . /::;"My husband gets' along beautifully without me,:■ said.,the : big woman, in' bltio.. "That's why.'l never ,i -.;■•■. '/Dp ; you:really;believe husbands and wives : can't|6tand being together all Ihe time—that they grow \&. bore each other?" asked'the on-" gaged /girl,", wistfully; '■• ; / ■ ' ;■';'- v.'.'My.-ohild,-" said the spinster in'the corner Vloye...that; .won't.'stand- the 'test] of constant companionship isn't love. -And lovje that won't stand; the ■ test of absence isn't love. -But it's my. belief that when.-two-people 'are Tightlymated -each enjoys '■ a. thing more for tho other's-, being.Uhere and they - aren't really content .apart." ■ -'■'■■ .•.-■■.-. ■ ! ■/ - "Clinging:-; vine,"; said V.Ben's I.wife."—"New York , Tribune. 1 ? . •" : ' , . ■ .•'-•;...- -