an embarrassing weakness of lock, a total absence of key and a scarcity of strap. How often in real life has one been obliged to trans-for one's belongings to a larger trunk or else to leave behind many valued but unpackable articles!
In projecting a holiday, one naturally desires to' miss as little as possible. and it is most annoying to find after reservations have been irrevocably made, that one is doomed to miss an enjoyable week-end trip or some amusing parties. Then, too, there is always that feeling of indispens ability to be downed, the sneaking suspicion that the house, not to mention the husband, will go to racksand ruin without you. Life being still an imperfectly managed affair, there are certain to be many irritating contretemps at the last moment, so that not infrequently one sets out on a pleasure excursion with a bitter resentment at ever having been persuaded to leave one's happy home and a firm determination to be unhappy throughout the vacation period.
Happily this mood does not' persist. The left-behinds are seldom so indispensable as one thinks at first, responsibilities
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