The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-01-19
A Story About Wall. Paper.

| At the time of the building of one ofthe
hnest residences in Hartford, which is
still very new house, local firm sup
piled the wall paper for certain rooms,
contracting both to furnish and to put
on the paper 1t happened. that they
did not calculate the size of one room
exactly right, and the paper of the de-
sign selected for it fell short just half a.
roll. They asked for delay enough to
send on to the manufacturers for what
was needed and was told that there was
no especial hurry. 1t happened that the
manufacturers had none on hand and
had destroyed the blocks from which it
was printed. They wrote that they had
a full list of the dealers to whom they
had sold that paper and that they would
write to each. of them and get from some
of them roll. 1t might involve a de-
lay of a couple of weeks but they would
surely get it.cs4 esx..s 80
/ In the course of time came a letter to
their great surprise they could not find
a single roll. Such a thing was very
unusual, but in this case it had so hap
Hpened. Accordingly the local firm asked
for further time, saying they would
write to their own customers who had
bought of that pattern and would get
the piece for them. But, to their sur
prise, this effort also. failed. A long
time had now elapsed and there was no
use of delaying any longer. They had
contracted to paper the room and their
only course was to take off that which
was insufficient and put on some other
OF which there was enough to go around.
Accordingly, at length man was sent
out to remove the paper. He got his
apparatus ready and was about to be-
gin work under the direction Of the
owner of the building when the latter
was for the moment called away The
house was large and very interesting,
and SO many people had rambled about
it that finally admission had been re-
fused by a sign at the door, On the
occasion, however, when a gentleman
had knocked and asked for leave to
look about, the owner being on the
premises, had been sent for to reply to
the request in person. That was the
call that for the moment DELAYED the
final preparations. The gentleman went
to the door and admitted the stranger,
saying he would show him about the
house but first must return to that room
to finish his directions there, and he told
the curious story about the paper as
they went on. They entered the room
and the first thing the stranger,
who lived fifty miles away, said ON hook
ing about, was: why. / .have that
very paper ON room in my house, and
| have an extra roll Of it laid away
which is at your service.'' In a. few
days the wall was papered according to
the original contract. Had not the
owner been at the house the stranger
would not have been admitted; had he /
called later he would have been too late, /
had not the facts been almost accident I
ally told. to him, he would probably /
have said nothing about the paper, and
SO on. The exact fitting of all the cir
cumstances is something very remark
able, and makes one of those stories that
seem hardly accidental in their nature
Hartford Courant.
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quite deep and inviting. How Cool and
Pleasantit must be in the Mud Hole. Good
little Boys and Girls can Play in the Mud
Hole and Make Lots of Nice Patty Cakes.
Tell the Baby to come, too, and then you
can Put Mud in his Ears and he viii Shiash
the pretty Black Water all over Susie,s |