Norwich bulletin., 1915-09-01

--@ w Gil, W6It, WO11. SKOWAC0 SA4G A&S@A~A
Of the family, in mingled reproof and
relief. as his 10 year old daughter
dragged herself limpingly up the front
steps at 10: 30 in the evening. Seeing
that you left the house at 1880 this
morning to go to the picnic, why dtd
act of looking for a handy messenger
to send telling you to remain as long
as you likedi"
I'm just about deadi" gasped his
offspring g, obviously. sinking into the
basket. umbrella and pocket book with
a clatter. "My, but we had grand
time!"
i've been worried to DEATH" de-
clared her mother. IL you tell me
what on earth you could do to kill time
from 10 a. m. till this time OF night
in st. Charles I wish you would! i
never heard of such lateness"
."Oh,' explained her child kindly, we
weren't there all that time! You see,
when Bertha and left here to catch
didn't catch 1t because the clock was
slow or something. Anyhow, I had to
stop in the corner store to buy some
chocolate. You never can tell when
you go on picnic what will happen
and chocolate is very nourishing.
"of course, the other girls and the
chaperon were on the 1880. but they
waited for us. That Is, Elsie and Nellie
went on to buy paper napkins and
Mrs. White had to order groceries, but
we got over to the interurban at ten
minutes to 9. We had a time card and
| it said that the car left at 9:05. 1t
was o'clock when we discovered that
! Harriet hadn't come. She's moved out
to Oak Park, you know, but she still
belongs to the club. So we phoned
her-and what do you think? Are you
really going? says she. Tt looks like
rain out here and I haven't made my
sandwiches or anything!' So we told
her never mind, but to hurry up and
| we'd wait-and two couldn't come so
that made it all right about the four
dozen sandwiches she was to bring"
Two dozen for each of you?" gasped
| her mother
| We'll, we were going to have lunch
and supper BOTH" said her daughter.
| "and you do get awfully hungry on
| picnics. Besides, the sandwiches were
most all we had planned for-we didn't
have anything else but Bertha's and
my salad and some pickles and candy
| and deviled eggs and cake and fruit
and cookies. Anyhow, we couldn't have
| taken that car. for it really left at g.
There was a speck over one zero on the
time card and that made it look like
as.
We'll, when Harriet got there we
had missed another car and the next
1 one wasn't I'LL IL. so we O1QnC go &c
| st. Charles. but went to Elgin. And
it rained and we couldn't get off and
pick flowers or anything. We were
just starved when we got there and II
was stuffy in the station and Elsie and
Jane. who had been there before. SAID
they knew a lovely park where we
could eat our lunch. So we started.
First we stopped and got a soda
It's best to drink sodas instead o;
water because you might get typhoid
you know. ! guess Elsie and Jane
must have been to some other towr
and thought 1t was Elgin,, because We
walked miles looking for the park and
Mrs. White said. Girls! This is really
| anr1oyfng!'
well. finally we got to a park and
had everything spread out-and 4
turned out to be somebody's yard, 81
we had to pack things up and wall
some more and finally we found tre'
in vacant lot. It wasn't raining a
all then and we were mad because W.
hadn't got away and gone to the Fo1
! river as we had intended. Then w,
had another soda and somebody won
dered whether we could go through tn,
watch works. So we went back t
| the railway station to ask"
Why not direct to the watch fac
, tory?"
''Why, I don't know" said the youn,
person. you always ask about things
in railway stations. don't you? Thu
man said We couldn't without a permi
and then he started selling tickets. S,
we went to the carnival. 1t was ad
vertised in wonderful posters, but whel
we got there all we could do was rid,
| on the merry-go-round, because moth
ing else was running.
Then We had another soda and /
was most supper time and we went OF
to Aurora and ate supper in the station
there because it had started to rail-