Norwich bulletin., 1914-11-28

Henry is one of the most prosperous merchants of his city, having inherit ed the solid business of his well-to-do father.
 I cannot estimate how many times have heard Sallie give him points re- garding how to run his store!
 She never goes there to buy any thing without returning. worried by the insolence or inattention or untidy appearance of some clerk, although to be "a clerk at Loornis'" carries with It a recommendation good as a certtned check in Newtown, and some of Hen rvs men learned the business under his father.
 Sallie is never too busy to clip from the newspapers items about the duli- ness of trade, the alarming increase of failures during the year, the predicted advance in prices in one commodity or another which Henry sells.
 Then there is the awful burden of the
 neighbors!
 The Blank children are ill-mannered. the Snow children swear while at their
 play, the Bond boy is rude and. saucy,
 the Williams girls wear such expen-' sive, Showy clothes that Sallies daughters are quite dissatisfied with the plainer garb which their mother selects for them.
 The mother of the Bonds comes of
 a wealthy family and 1t is really a
 
 limousines outside the Bonds door, to glimpse Mrs. Bond, radiant and sty- lishly gowned, being whirled off to some dinner or tea or matinee, in a set
 to which Sallie can never claim en- 1 tree.
 Mrs. Williams is one of those women prone to "neighboring;" just as likely
 as not to drop in before the breakfast dishes are washed, the beds made, the kitchen tidied up. She feels priv fI1- ;~r@ ,A.-rv 1 1 help herself to a cooky, or a tart, and l nibb1e while retailing all the gossip of | the town.
 SaIlie would like to be a bit excIu- 1 sive-or rather seclusive-Eut the eld- est Williams son is rather. sweet on | Sallie's second daughter Jean-and 1 there you are! q don't want to pose as the ugly mother-in law electi" the
 good woman grumbles to poor Henry, bors always to be reeEoned with in the
 matter of having the proper curtains | and furniture, getting ones spring and 1 fall housekeeping done in time, keep | ing the children suitably and hand | sonely dressed, not having it known | that ones jelly-making and preserving
 are delayed or neglected, or that one | depends upon the baker or delicatessen | for what Sallie calls with acrimony 1 ''vittles!"
 For SaIIie would not be true New Enclander did she not carry the bur l den of cooking!
 The triumph of having a new recipe 1 for sponge cake which will cause a | thrill of envy to run through the
 neighborhood, the discovery of T way | to cook carrots by not peeling but | brushing them-which means a saving | of the real flavor of the vegetable | how to always have light dumplings I a.zIr -.gr ., | ing and jelly that will jell, all these l trifies make up the sum total of an-
 other sort of burden with which Sallie 1 is oppressed.
 Then there is the burden of her 1 figure!
 With pride Sallie recalls the days | of their courting, when Henry was not ] the only young man who paid her com | pliments for her sylph-like form. She | has a way of displaying to her grow | ing daughters-slab-s sided and lank af- i ter the most approved fashion plate | models-the tiny belt she used to wear when Pa was O young Sprig shinin' | round; the No. glove of her wedding day. and the slim, dainty slipper which went with it.
 | SalIie would still be fine looking | woman if she had not acquired those | little wrinkles about the eyes and mouth from worrying about everything I l waist is still trim, her carriage grace | full, her complexion clear and healthy. | But Sallie is always dwelling in fu-
 ture when things will be wholly wrong 1 and unsatisfactory; and so she wor- ries, worries--bears the household l jibes when she diets, fearing she may l grow too stout, secretly bathes her | face in morning dew and in buttermiIk, | rolls" to reduce her hips, walks to l keep herself in trim. Of course, SaiIie bears the burden of | the church and the town and the po-
 liticai party to which Henry belongs.
 In the church the choir may sing
 not encourage Sallie-hers is Q re- | ligion of worry, of a gloom which noth- l ing will dispel.
 Naturally, SaIIie feels heavily the | burden of ciothes-for herself and the | children. If told that her hat is un- l becoming. she weeps. In ease the tail- | or sends home her coat which wrinkles i ever so little, she goes to bed with a
 nervous headache. l am wieke denough to plan what | am going to do when in the nature of l things Sallie wears herself out, after 1 her alarm clock life. I am going to l send to her funeral comfy looking
 floral pillow bearing the motto in pur- I | the first time that Sallie will ever rest, | within her friends knowledge of heri 1 And in case she survive poor, pttient | Henry. think shall suggest that she | copy for his tombstone the significant | inscription from the rural headstone: 1 Rest in Peace-Until Comet" for I
 somehow feel that even in Paradise | Sallie would hecl1e the good man who
 has borne her fTetting and fuming over | trif1eS all these years!
 1 Fancy pictures Henry's second wife l "a young. careless person, with silk 1 hose and a blouse collar turned low, | towsled yellow hair and a fondness for | travel and tennis; one whom her step
 children will worship, for the reason 1 that she is their cllum and lets them | go about at their own sweet will. Who, | when the roast is burned or the roof | leaks. will murrnur indifferently, as l she returns to her novel or candy
 munching, T should worry!" which
 means that she never does and never 1 will
 And, oh! I can see how radiantIy l happy Henry will be, as a reaction | from his present state of probationl
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