Norwich bulletin., 1915-07-20

ii thought you were going east to
visit your cousin or some one" the
your mind?n
The caller laughed. Z had an OBJ
ject lesson she said "Or, rather, 4
had an entire series of lessons, in
consequence OF which ] have come to
the conclusion that II takes an almost
perfect person to be good visitor"
For goodness salSel What on earth
happened to discourage your"
We'll. You see, my husband and /
have no end of relatives the caller
explained, mot to mention our friends
We made in our youth whom we see
occasionally. and we are exactly on the
grand central highway that leads to
the California celebrations, and you
know how easy it is to say to people,
Come and visit US some time. Well
as result of a number of such reck-
less Invitations that we had scattered
about during the last years, never
dreaming they would be accepted. we
have been reaping our logical harvest
and pretty nearly everybody we are
acquainted with has dropped in to
make us a visit"
Il know" sighed the hostess, sym
pathy in her voice. We have had
some visitors ourselves"
'fYeu mustn't think me inhospitable,"
the caller fastened to say. Indeed,
We are not. 064I1y lOh6 ~ S4AlCA SrAAA1
my friends at any time 1t is only
that have in a way been taking notes
lately, that's all.
The first few who came to our
house were a joy because we really
did think 1t fun to run all over town
and show off our city, especially when
it was such splendidly cool weather.
OF course. Dot never was on time for
anything and this popularity was a
little annoying, but we got used to
standing around waiting for her and
being late to everything and missing
trains and things like that. finally
learned wisdom and told her to be
ready good half hour before we really
expected to start, and the scheme
worked well until she got the idea that
we were getting to things too early,
when she fell back into her evil ways.
Nothing said the hostess, lis more
annoying
$50 I thought at the time, but ]
| learned better" laughed the caller
| Probably I became more critical as
1 grew more tired of sightseeing and
| going to the shows. When Name came
I thought should scream at her habit
of running things. She made all the
plans. directed all the tramping around
announced the hours at which we
should be at certain places and chose
| what plays and what people SHE
| wanted to see. She had loads of shop.
ping to do and she had it all arranged
just when, where and how it should b.
done. 1 felt like cipher and had tt
pinch myself to make sure I WASH
the visitor instead of the hostess.
Then there was Lucy" the Gale
went on, "She borrowed everything
owned-stamps, scissors, gloves, hat
pins, handkerchiefs, rubbers and good
ness knows what else. She went ava.
owing me $40 and carried off tw,
pairs of white gloves besides"
Sounds like kleptomania-''
at wasn't. Lucy was merely forget
full. Alice was a good deal like her
She didn't stop to think and her hus
band was one of the worst trainet
men I ever saw. They never closet
anything and the dresser drawers wer
always gaping open to match tn
closet door and the trunk lid. The.
took maps with their shoes on, LYNN
on my clean, new spread or the bes
white blankets, and the room wa
strewn with matches and cigar ashes
after them came Adele and her lit
tie boy. / adore them both, but GER