Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-16

The one who was initiating & towel agreed empha ticaily when something was said concerning the general hs.p- 1essness of men.
 T firmly believe" she remarked that if I were to 50 away and abandon my home, not only friend husband but all the family Wcliid starVe to. death, perish of haat or cold or come to some horrible end just because nobody Tn my household ever knows where anything isl If weren't there to tell 'em, they couldn't t locate even the telephone to send for help!
 As for me I am the finest living example of the human encyclopedia Long service has trained my brain in to noting automatically the exact To- cation of any and all objects. After 8, woman has grown used to being asked in the middle of July where is the left ear huff worn last December she de- velops remarkably along those lines. me up in the magazines together with the human rnarvels who can multiply millions instantly and relate on the spot the dates of the Roman wars and inform you how many times round the earth 1t is to the planet Mars!
 Somehow the family always gets more feeble minded in the summer just when l want to recuperate and have a good time They drive me to the edge of insa nity when I get them all together at the summer cottage. It begins in the morning by my husband s demanding his cap. You would think we were in the arctic regions and he expected frcst bite if he Yentured out into the perfect July day without it. I tell him he dropped it into the wa stebasllet when n came home the evening previous. And then my sis ter walls and wants to know who on earth has taken her tennis racket and buried it
 - On top of the piano. AdeIine.' tell her And EtheI-that is my daughteT-''if you are looking for your embroidery, you dropped it in the pansy bed when the girls called you and I picked it up and put it on the table in your room.
 Then I settle down on the porch to read and the cook appears. She says she has always put the rolling pin on the shelf in its proper place, but for the life of her 1t is missing, and she hasn't the vagGeSt idea where it is, and Before I know it my subconscious brain Is prompting my tongue to mur- mur that she will find the rolling pin on the floor under the icebox. l re- member having seen It lying on top, and thinking that when the iceman raised the cover it would undoubtedly roll off back of the refrigerator.
 While Mary is scrambling for the rolling pin my husband bangs in through the screen door looking around in a vague sort of way in the fright ened manner men have when they have lost something.
 My cap!" he exclaims fretfully T took it off a minute while I was spad- ing mp that bed and for the life of me-
 "I think I saw it hansing on one of the rosebush stakes. I tell him, and off he goes tickled to pieces at finding his cherished pet. Then Ethel tears through the house like 3, young cyclone disrupting and scattering everything she passes. and talking ten miles to the second to the effect that if she can lay hands on the individual who has absracted her new book
 Ethel say 1, your book is on top of the laundry hamper in the stairway. I am sure l don't know how it got there unless you put it there Vow ing that she has not been within a mile of the hamper for .. year. Ethel