Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-10-27

I'm awfully sorry, Mrs Pickiegate,"
explained the woman with the worried
expression, hut, mnch as would like
TO oblige you, I'm afraid I can't let
you leave your canary with me while
you are away! 1 simply couldn't risk
II after my experiences last year with
the sewing machtnei If Mr.. Dubbs
came home and found that had al
lowed anyoAe else,s property, to say
nothing or something alive, to join
our family. I'd hate to think OF the
consSQuencesi
IT felt sorry for her when Mrs.
SharpIes told me about her machine.
We were all living in q small family
pathetic when she asked II wouldn't
like TO take her perfectly lovely, 10
horse power, silver plated machine for
a. while. She said she had to so to
a hospital for time. and that Mr..
Sharpfes was going to take a room
store their furniture In the hotel
| storeroom., but as the machine was
such an elegant thing she was afraid
| It would get dusty ana moth eaten
Il never do a stitch of sewing but
assured her I'd be delighted to have
| III and she was so grateful that she
| said to use 1t twelve hours a day II I
wanted to. II put a cover ever II to
disguise 1t and stood II in a dark COR
ner and the Sharples, departed.
4
4 'Tt was two weeks later" continued
the woman with the worried express
sion, that the hotel management
served notice that they had failed. and
/ the place would be closed IN one week.
i In the agony of finding a new abid-
ing place forgot the machine TIL !
began to pack up Then a.d,t. rssalle 90
Il hospital that Mrs. Sharples was go
ing to.
aFrantically searched the tele-
i phone directory. Oscar A. Sharples
was not among those present.
asked the hotel management and they
were just as much IN the dark. 1t was
then that Mr.. Dubbs suggested call
ing up the various hospitals. spent
half day doing this and gained the
undying enmity of every clerk in ev-
cry hospital in Cook county. while
myself had to go to bed with ice cloths
on my throbbfng forehead when i I'm
. ished. There was no trace of Mrs
Sharples.
81 had a dim recollection that hei
husband had said something about
starting up in wall paper manufactur.
. ing, so next spent six valuable hour.
/ in heart to heart talks with wall papel
. people. The populace must eat wal
E paper, otherwise, so many factories
I'll could never exist.
"Of course, / could have sent tn,
machine to storage, but was afrait
that they would sell ii for charges ant
1t really was a nice machine and
have q tender heart. / paid larg
n money to have II expressed with gu
3 own things and thepclumsy men nick
ed the mahogany batlisters in ST.
!, places getting It up to our rooms-be
lieve me. nicking the banisters Is n
way to gain the affection of a ney
. landlord.
s Mr.. Dubbs suggested that tn
e Sharples who were merely chance &C
: quaintances Of ours, might have m
:, arrested for running off with the ma
!. chine. After that turned cold at tn
IA sight OF a policeman Besides, ther
= was no place for the machine to stan
d except where Mr.. Dubbs banged HI
IL shins every time he opened his close
door.
: Then 1 remembered that Mr.
~ Sharples had spoken Of knowing I'll
Detmores over on >Drexel Avenue ar
- sent the landlady's little girl pos
IL haste to ask the Sharples' address
s. She came back and reported that Mr.
y Detmore was extremely sorry, but 81
- had had a falling out with Mrs Shai
lg pies which was so serious that 1t pre-
~ vented her having the slightest inteI
~ est in her movements and she didr
:. know where she was. Thereupon
" telephoned five times, but Mrs. De
m more never was home
s. Mr.. Dubbs' shins and his vocabl
e. larry were by this time deep. RID