Norwich bulletin., 1914-04-01

q am sad" began the girl who likes to talk. "because l have diA~vered one of my friends growing old. It's such a wretched mistake on his part! You begin to grow old, yoH know, when you consider creature comfo=t before TO- nance"
 Is this to be high STOW lecture ?" inquired the very young man, in con- siderable alarm
 Never" declared the girl who likes to talk Iris but the outpourings or broken heart, and you can safely stay Tom always has been ore Of these bltheSome men that one wants around when one Is blue, you know. His chief charm was that he was always game for anything. He was never 100 tired or too bored or too disinterested to join in and he always enjoyed him. self
 Why, Tom could travel eight miles to the north side to get d girl and bring her back eight miles to party on the south side and then repeat the trip to take her home and turn in at his own house at f a m. and get up at and still keep on liking the glrl and the partyi That's the sort he was, He was young in spite of the birthdays that kept coming! Imagine then my surprise.
 Tell me the worst" begged the very young man.
 i will,' promised the girl who likes to talk. T simply must connde m some one-and besides, it may serve as a warning.
 Just the other night I had some friends in and invited a charming new girl for Toms special benefit. We've been trying to marry off Tom Tor years. you understand, and this time l had great hopes. l told him before hand that 1 expected him to take Miss BendIer home, quite distance, bul she was charming enough to make II worth the trip. Tom beamed as usual In the middle of the evening I caught him yawning and he excused himself 1 by saying that he had been up nVt nights running and was dead for sleep
 "'Y ou used to say 1 accused him l that Napoleon was the only sensible man on earth because he got along with three hours slumber a night 1 Whats come over your Tom fatlI ! declared he had never made such z 1 fool remark-and he meant it. It Wa l then I noticed the little wrinkles abou 1 his eyes. Oh, he seemed to like Mis- ! Bender well enough.
 At 10.30 I caught him surreptiousl. ! looking at his watch. He did have tn ! grace to blush. You sec he explained I've got to get up at 6: 30 to-morroV | and I was utterly stern l toll | him that if he expected to get out o l escorting Miss Bendler home he wa 1 exceedingly mistaken and that l va
 ashamed of him on general principles | What about the time he was so craz
 about the Smith girl, who lived i Evanston. and made the trip out ther from the south side four times
 week and wished he dared make l seven? What about the time he sraye up all night to get the broken dow 1 automobile party home Just becaus Avis Greer was one of 'en?
 Tom looked quite cross. He re quested me to take my memory ou
 and see what chloroform would do 10 it. Then he grumpily went back |
 Miss Bendler. When somebody polite ly murmured that it must be gettin
 late Tom whipped out his watch in
 stantly. and, in a penetratinsly lou
 voice, said, ''Yes, it is twenty minute
 to eleven'-but Miss Bendler jus
 smiled sweetly at him and neve
 stirred.
 When she remarked five minute
 later that it was still showing, Tor
 spoke emphatically. He said that i
 a very short time all the car line
 might be blockaded and people wh