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Show Editor Makes a Confession i i i Anticipated Joys to Do Indulged In During Wife's Absence Provo ll'usory. Our wlfo la gone. Gono to visit our mother-ln-lnw. Gono back to tho old homo nnd the ronl oroam. Pack to tho old oaken bucket nnd tho mud ploa of memory. We aro not saying thh to mako othor in on onvloua whoso wlvoa nro not gono. Put it Is a sort of whistle to koop our courage up. For a long tlmo tho opportunity to hang out all night and mako a monkey mon-key or ourselves has looked good Now, with no restraint on our conduct, no tearful wlfo waiting to throw her hooka Into our hair, no ono to llo to. nobody to pacify with artful invon tlons. no person to care a whoop whothor wo go to tho bu&houso or not. now that the very hour and moment Is pregnant with witchery and our horoscope Is psychologically corroot for a riotous porlod of dobauchory, we got sleepy at S:30 and mope off to bed llk a motlusk, . It's onough to drive nn ostentatious drunkard to tho Kocloy Institute. Solo has lost Its charms and highballs nro a mockory. Wo do not want to play poker or llok up suds or do any of the hundred disreputable things thnt n few days ago seemed so entrancing. If things hnd panned out as anticipated antici-pated wo would be an actor in the Jollification drama instead of Its playwright play-wright Kotchlkan Dally Minor. |