Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-07

Jangwell was the richest man in ] the town. There had been times when | half the farmers throughout the country dreaded the sight of Jang- well, because he had mortgages on the | possessions of all of them, and they hated to gaze upon so much prosperi- | ty especially when 1t took such unat- | tractiye form. For Jangweu was lank | and hatchet-faced and his expression was far from benign.
 In his youth Jangwell had married a pretty girl who accepted nm ID a moment of abstraction and, being nat urally meek, had not had the courage | to withdraw from her bad bargain. However, in time one gets used to all l things, though one needed a long lile | to grow resigned to JangWell. The house he lived in actively re- fected his character and the unfortu- nate human beings who at times could not avoid going thither usually went home and chatteringly demand ed quinine and hot water poultices, so dispirited were they. It was the big gest house in town and about as att tractive looking for residence as would have been a cross between states prison and an orphan asylum. It was built of uncompromising red brick with staring windows that look ed as though they had lost their eye lashes.
 When one got inside this house the impression one received was that Jangwell had shaved the interior as he was reputed to shave notes. Once in the dim past when Mrs. Jangwell had timidly urged buying some covet- ed hanging or article of furniture, her husband had sniffed scornfully and then had inquired if she had lost her mind.
 What, he had asked heatedly, was the economy of spending money on house when the family consisted of twelve children rampaging around without an idea of the value of money For there were twelve little Jangwells and in spite of the rerressing infiu- ence of their father they got away with an astonishing amount of food and clothes.
 Jangwell, after wrestling a few years with the problem of keeping down family expenses, hit upon a plan which the town still talks about.
 T want a box of shoes" he told the owner of the footgear store. AS sorted sizes-and give me a discount for cashi"
 Out of the box of assorted sizes the JangWsll children, with some trouble, were fitted. Some of the children drew shoes of the proper size and some didn't; but that did not bother their father, for they did not complain in his presence. They knew better.
 When they needed hats the same method was followed. A box of as- sorted headgear was ordered and the unfortunate offspring of the house of Jangwell were extinguished under the contents of the box. Jangwell did not purchase Mrs. Jangwelps wearing ap- parel by the gross, there being but one of her, but he never failed to make her feel that she was an expensive proposition when she bought a $3.S5 hat and paid 50 cents yard for her best dress.
 When the money that Jangwell had boarded and guarded through a long spoke about in awed whispers, and when his family were stupefiedly re- signed to unhappiness, he accommo- datingly died so suddenly that he had no time to put restrictions on their inheritance. All the money was theirs, with no string to it.
 The town women began running in to see Mrs. Jangwell then, and after each visit they excitedly reported that she was spending more money. All those long years she had made mental notes of what she would like to buy for her house and now she was going painstakingly through the list. Some of the furnishings had fallen out of date ten years before. but she bought thorn DaunTfhaInGa