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Show "HUSBAND'S VACATION." 1 Being an Answer to Cynthia Grey's Advice to the Wife to Plan It. BY MR, HENRY PECK. can forget business and. can think - of '' things that refresh a tired brain an4 return to work braced for another siege of eleven months or eleven months and a half. But. can't the woman go there, too Yes. Cynthia, she can. If her husband . Is easy enough to take heiSonce. He never takes her twice; she wouldn't go twice, either. She can't stand it more than once, neither can he. She isn't built for that kind of a vacation. She doesn't like to sleep on a single blanket blan-ket under the trees, to eat off the tins and to fight ants and tramp in the rough places. Once in a while there may be an exception. ex-ception. Maybe you are one of the exceptions. ex-ceptions. Cynthia. But you can put it down as a truth that as a rule that when the wife of a hard-ground city man plans his vacations for him she is doing It because she thinks she can have more fun with him than without him, and the question of revivifying " him, which Is the one big thing con- . sldered by the man. has been forgotten. forgot-ten. ' And also put It down as a truth that the man who has 'not sense enough to plan a vacation for himself, as well as working for his wife to have one, doesn't deserve any help. . No, Cynthia, don't advise any woman to plan an. outing for her husband. Woman, the Lord bless her, la all right Don't let her become a peac You're not a bad sort of a fellow, Cynthia. Every once in a while you say something that tickles the men for instance, when you speak of husband as "a beast of burden." That pleases at least ninety-nine out of one hundred, hun-dred, because it's what they continually continual-ly call themselves. And generally they are, but that's all right. Nature Intended In-tended them to be, and not many ' of them find fault with nature's scheme. It Is when the wife adds excess baggage bag-gage that they complain. You're all right, Cynthia, so Is every other woman who tries to take a pound or two off the old man's back. . You're all right In spirit You mean well, and that Is a whole lot. But you are all wrong in your theories the-ories and in the methods you present You are trying to do something for the old man. but you are only stirring up trouble for him. The trouble is that you are trying to look at the vacation proposition from a man's viewpoint. I and being a woman, you are looking in the wrong direction. Cynthia, if you wish to help the average man In his vacation plans, DON'T BUTT IN. ' That is the greatest possible help you can give him. Do you know where the average woman wo-man wishes to spend a vacation, Cynthia? Cyn-thia? She prefers to go where the hotels ho-tels are tall and the bills taller and the gowns are low In front and back; where an orchestra plays at dinner and the openface shirt parades after 6 p. m.;: where it's."Slza, boom, bang, hurrah, hur-rah, boys, hurrah," with the corridors crowded ad every steamer packed. There's no fault to be found with her because she likes that sort of thing. Nature planned that she should - and those places exist because she does like them. - . t . . v ; . i - And where does the average, man with a month's vacation or more often only two weeks prefer-to go?. For him the tall timber, the high grass, tho gentle stream or the soothing mountain; the region that has not been defaced by clvlUiaUoa, And there he |