Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-29

q know what was the trouble" in- terrupted the woman in the starfish shaped hat. 'Why didn't you arrange to have-'
 "Oh, I did!" broke in the haggard one. T arranged it just as those ar ticles on efficiency in housekeeping in the magazines tell you to! I arranged that while we were living in peace and order downstairs they should do the upstairs sitting room and part of the bedrooms! Then when the family, looking like the beautifully tailored scene around the library table in the back page magazine 'ad, removed it. self to the fresh upstairs sitting room, the men could do the other bedrooms and the front rooms downstairs, and after that the dining room and kitchen. There would then be no confusion and discomfort to the family.
 John is fine man, but he never can comprehend why it is not possible to houseclean and paper eight hours a day, having the house in perfect order before and after each eight hours when he is home. So I wanted to spare his nerves as much as possible. Did they follow my schedule? Why, woman, ] went out of the house for a couple of hours or so on the first day they were there, having packed away the up- stairs sitting room and three bedrooms for them to work in. And when I got back there wasn't spot from attic to the coalbin in the basement with an
 unoccupied place where one could sit down.
 T don't know how they managed il in that short time. Every wall was l stripped and everything else emptied I beheld the hem of my best ball gown sticking out from under pile oi dusty portieres atop the piano and 8 new case of canned goods from the
 kitchen pantry was upstairs in the bathroom with the umbrellas and my l best table doilies, which had been or the top of the sideboard.
 "The laundress was drinking herself
 to death on tea in the kitchen de- manding to know how a hard working woman could wash in a laundry filled | with millions of pails and buckets oi calcimine, paint, varnish remover 1 shellac and paste and few dozeT stepladders, to say nothing of smal
 lumber yard of blanks! The answer | was eaSy-she couldn't.
 'sWhen John came home at night he gave low moan at the front door anG
 in his agitation dropped his hat into z | bucket of ca1cimine. He waded ankle l deep through the wall paper they hat been scraping off and every time ht tried to sit down he couldn't because 1 there was always a lamp or a picture | or a vase in the chair he headed for He 1eaped like chamois over the par, | Tor couch and landed in my pet Bosto1 | fern and when he found the kitcher I full of the library books he brilliantly
 suggested that we had better gt around the corner to restaurant.
 We had breakfast off the piano
 bench and when John wanted a neck 1 tie the cook said he would find his tie,
 in the jardiniere on the bread box, fo. l she had seen one of the workmen care
 fully put them there. By the nex night it was worse, because there wal l varnish and enamel in unexpectet spots and when you finally located a1 article of furniture, such as you
 workhox, they had moved it somewher, else when you went back to it.
 1 'tMargery wore one patent 1eathe
 and one plain shoe to school becaus, she couldn't swim a sea of varnish tt
 her closet to get the mates.