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Show ON THE AMERICAN PLAN Abo Morlnbaum was a patriot, but now? , Iiotwoon vacations Abo holds down a desk in tho Uconso bureau in tho city hull. In vacation times ho and Mrs. Abe sffo tho "sights. Ono yoar thoy see Lincoln Park. Tho noxt thoy go to Jackson Park. A third flnUs thorn taking in tho stockyards. stock-yards. Anothor thoy may visit Whlto (jay, and noxt they go to nivorvlow. Then $jips Souct may claim their attontion, qjtd again it may bo Forest Park. Por thirty yoars Mr and Mrs.. Abo hud boon soolng tho sights or Chicago, and rlnally thoy decidod thoy had soon them all. So this yoar thoy made up their rnhuis to mako a real splurgo and go to rfiFlflen lands. rtI don't think much or thoso rorolgnors," said Abo to his wiro, "hut a roller might as woll see how tho rest or tho world , lives. Lot's go abroad this year, and thon whon wo got back to Chicago we'll appro- ! elate ta. good thing." Many railroad and stoomship roldors I woio colloctcd, and finally Montreal was decided on as the roreign land to bo visited on the groat trip. Abo decided ho was going to do things right, and whon h reached tho "foreign" city ho went at zo to ono or the big hotels. "American or European plan?" askod tho clerk, as the Morlnhaums registered. "Atnorlcan, or courso," loplled Abo. "What do you tako us ror?" "Tho prico will bo 4 a day, oach," said tho clork. Abe never batted an eye, but whon ho and his wiro reached thoir apartmonts ho unburd'mod hlmsoir or a row thoughts. "I a' ways know thorn roroigrtors was all iohhors," ho confided, "but I guess wo can stick It out a row days, ovon ir thoy aro sotlin' us back ?8 per Tor tho two or us. Dut we've got to economise on oats ir it costs $8 a aay ror us to Just sloop and sit around." So day by day Mr. and Mrs. Abo walked right past tho big dining-room, whonco camo appetizing odors and sights, and tho sound or gay music. Such luxuries woro not Tor them. Thoy carcrully picked out tho dairy lunchrooms, and regaled them- U selves with sandwiches and coiToc. i fl rinully, oh tho laBt day or their stay! H Abo told an acquaintance ho had made of B the oxtortlon which he had surfeied 1 "Dut Amorlcan plan means meals in- eluded," his friend told him. "What's that?" exclaimed Abo. "Meals jH included, and mo catln' dairy lunches all H this tlmo!" H Thon ho calod his wife and they had lf ono moal in the hotel heroic train time. H "And, bollovo mo," said Alio on his re- fl turn to Chicago yostordny, "It was some moal." Chicago Rocoid-IIorald. IH |