A SEASIDE VACATION.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 30 December 1921, Page 3

A SEASIDE VACATION.

.Human nature is a cut ions tiling, wines a roirespondenl. We always b,-c mtu want wnui we have not got at the m.jinenl. I was visiting some Luditts the other day, wau liave a most unarming home who me daintiest oi appommiems, a garden which is a delight, a coiiuonanie car, a competent servant, and everything in tue to make them nappy. run ineir whole talk was ot Uieir “shack’ - at mo seaside, and they ran me down io it lor a week-end. Mow they could pul up with it all was a uiyamry to me. The whole lamily cruwueu into .mee tiny looms, sleeping in hunks one above the other in close rooms, widened, uhcoiiuortable chans (nm an armchair in lire place wnere one could loll); coarse crockery, horrible knives and icrks; hare walls, cooking done under me gieatest udticulues; none ol the labour-saving devices ot the home. No pretty sixmos about the place, no garuen, no slreuer; ana yet the whole lamily so pleased .with mernselves and the place that you would have thought they had just come into a legacy. H they were iOiced to live in such a place their grievance would swell to heaven; hut mey do it oi othea own Itee will, and they adote it. llns perversity is one oi the very earnest nans we humans develop, thve the baby the costliest toy you can buy, and he will throw - it down ami scream lor some ugly image you have upon the mantelpiece. Make a i mg lisi ol forbidden dungs lor your ou.v, and he will sample them every c’jc. Tdl your gill exactly all the imugs she ought to do, and she wdh spend a good deal ui lime evading them. .We all waul to get out oi the rut and away Irom the beaten Hack, and want to throw oil the shackles tor at any rate loosen them) lor a hide while.

Few things look more absurd than ;he hare-legged, bald-headed, stoutish lamily man at the seaside; but h is the poor man’s yearly protest against the ever-increasing demands of an exacting civilisation. He can dely them for. a lew weeks, and approximate to the savage state.