Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-17
TOO MUCH CHEERFULNESS

need to travel quickly. I'll never con- sent to buying anything but the very latest improvement in automobile am- balances. The best or nothing!'
 "Of course that settled it, and we went on with our ticket selling, cake baking, begging activities until, oh, joyi last week the ambulance arrived with a receipted bill from the makers. The hospital board rendered Aunt Mary a reception in her own home. She had her hour of triumph and she gloried in it. Nearly every contributor to the fund shook her hand and congratula- tions were heaped upon her. Pleasure and excitement kept her up during the early part of the evening, but by 10 o'clock she began to show the long strain she had been under. I was alarmed when I saw how haggard she was, for I had thought for some time that she wasn't looking well and l quietly besought her to leave the re- ceiving line, but she scorned the idea.
 "'What, after two years hard work, she exclaimed, do you think I'm going to desert now? Of COurseI couldn't really blame her for desiring to be in at the finish. as it were after the long fight she had won. and I said no more. was sorry later that I hadn't, for after the departure of the last guest she crumpled up and fell to the floor in a dead faint. I rushed to the door and called back a neighbor, who was also a doctor He returned, saying, when he looked at her, that he wasn't in the least surprised, that it was just exactly what might have been expect ed after her incorporate labors. When she came out of the faint she was weak as kitten and he declared that sine must have absolute rest. |.
 If we can get her to the hospital immediately and make her relax com pletely I think she will be saved a long, serious illness,' he said.
 "'Call the ambulance,' murmured Aunt Mary with just the shadow of a smile on her pale lips. There was something really touching in the gentle air of pride with which, when it came, Aunt Mary allowed herself to be car her and held her hand all the way to the hospital. I felt so sorry for the poor dear.
 Of course I went to the hospital again the following morning and when felt how dreadfully wrong it was that she should have worked herself into such exhaustion.
 "'Oh, Aunt Mary, dear I said as calmly as I could, I can't begin to tell you how sorry I am that you are i'll. "'Why, Lucy, my dear child, YOU mustn't feel so had,' she replied. He1 voice was reduced to a broken whisper but her face was brave with smiles
 T think it was beautiful that I was the very first patient ever to ride ir our splendid ambulance. It will be sometime nice to remember always won't it?'
 q was relieved to have the nurse come by just then and forbid my talk ing to Aunt Mary any more, for I never could have agreed to that. She's i'm proving steadily and l go to see he, every day and she never fails each time to congratulate herself on the privilege she had of being the first passenger il the new ambulance. Did you ever heal of anything more absurd to be gla6 about ?"
 NO, I don't believe I ever did, but
 honestly now, aren't you glad she is i glad?" Why, yes, suppose I am. How ever, it does make me tired, if youI pardon the slang!"-Chicago News.