Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-04-17
DIARY OF A COMMUTER

get my thoughts down. to business!
Here's hoping that nobody comes to
interrupt me!
Let's see, what was it I had to re-
member to bring out tonight? A new
nozzle for the hose, g. couple of screens
this is the time to head off the flies
-wtcks for the blue flame stove, that
bottle Of spring tonic for Grandma,
one, two, three, four; there was some
thing else! Now WHAT was it Maria
said be sure not to for get? Nothing
for the sewing machine, nothing to
eat; no bird seed for the canary, nor
polish for the silver-Mm! Nm! Mn!
Oh, know! Something for curtains
for the dining room! Now what did
she say to get at Spooler & Needles?
was to bring enough for three win
dows-drat it! WHAT was the name?
A yard and half for each window; and
I was to get it of Mr.. Spence, with
whom Maria always trades! Eureka!
l remember! 1t was buff, she saidi
Four yards and a half of buff! Well,
I've remembered it; but if here isn't
the station! Too bad!
THURSDAY sure thought I'd get
a few free minutes to jot down my
ideas on the trip today; but Blank has
just left me at the last station and
all the way out he has been giving
me points about the profit of having
ones own garden, in a suburban place
like Newlotshurst. Claims his family
raises enough vegetables and fruit to
e'ena' most keep their table through
out the year! Pll stop and get some
vegetable catalogues on my way homei
dressing, / had a real Inspiration
about my eurbing device! But who
could think straight, with my neigh
bors, Mrs. jerks and Mrs. Jellaby ex-
changing across the aisle such fash
ion notes as, TT really looks as
coming. back, this season! Frills,
laces, full skirts, hats with dropping
| brinaE and ribbon streamers!
Il know it! Doesn't it make you
think of Dolly Warden times?"
| MY rich cousin Adeline's dress
! maker has just finished for her to take
to California ruffled skirt and point
| ed bodice exactly like one Grandma
Bates wore, when she sat for that old
portrait in mothers room!''
| "Well, you know they say fashions
come back every seven years! Look
at the little hats, and the colonial
| pumps, and the sashesi" etc, ETC., etc
| My ride is wasted Oh, for a lodge
in some vast wilderness, or a seat in
a freight car!
| SATURDAY-Som | don't ap.
pear to be making much headwaS
| with my inventions, clever as they
| seem-to myself!
Yesterday, I had occasion to go in,
| to the Skyscraper Building and il
! occurred to me to just ask Hobbs, the
| patent lawyer, if there was anything
/ to the notion of putting wires in 6
| tube which might at the same timt
| form g, sidewalk CURLING. BY good
luck, was cautious; and merely sale
| to Hobbs that a friend of mine hat
such scheme and I wondered il
there might be anything to it.
By great control, kept from show.
ing disappointment, when he assured
me carelessly that about twenty five
men all over the country had already
/ patented that ideal Well, at any rate
I've saved money, by not going into i
any further
/ guess I'm not cut out for a grea
genius, to make the world gasp anC
| incidentally make millions! It's bacl
to the regulation hard old grind TO,
mel
I wish I hadn't been bannboozlet
into the belief that it is Spring, ant
left off my heavy coat! The jay il