Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1916-01-27
ADVENTURES DARNING SOCKS

him to show pe some of the finest
photographs that ever did justice 10
the human face.
land I am sure we could do jus
tice to yours" he declared in the
softest and most irsinuating of ac-
cents.
Just let me show you few Of
our sample photographs, he begged,
and without waiting for my consent he
| proceeded to unveil some of the old
| est human countenances that l had
| ever beheld. We don't hatter our Gus
toners he said; and he certainly was
| telling the truth, but we try to bring
out their good points I looked again
at the pictures in a vain search Tor the
| good points. But then maybe the
plain truth in a photograph is good
/ point, especially If it operates as
| However 1 proceeded to cross the
abyss in the blue sock and gently as
| sured the young man that l hao no
good points that I cared to have
brought out but I had crossed over
many times before I could make him
understand that it was possible to en-
terrain such an unreasonable attitude
| toward ones own physiognomy, and he
left behind him no tangible proof OF
his visit that / could add to the tonic
and the cheese, except some advertis-
ing matter as kind of forlorn hope.
my next visitor was a woman sell
ing holders for hatirons. Her formula
killed in an accident, and five children
to support by making iron holders
won't you please buy one, lady? You
see that have made them the shape
of the human hand and of the best
felt in the market. This green one,
now, is a perfectly grand holder and
you could never burn your white
hands If you used this when you IRON
cit was with some mental difficulty
that 1 jumped from portraits to flat
iron holders, but then / told myself
that this was a morning of adventure
and an iron holder was something that
, one was always seeking and never
finding. 1 would rather have taken
mine without so much biography and
, personal anecdote, but still always
! like to have sentiment associated with
l my possessions and these iron holders
; reeked with sentiment.
! $50 I took the green one, the per-
fectly grand one and placed it on the
tea wagon beside the basket, the tonic
: the cheese and the tract and the pho
, tographic advertising matter and Their
1 looked for another pair of hose.
"And, 10! 1 had darned them ALL
There was not another pair in the
. basket and a row of five pairs of neat
ly, darned-for 1 am a neat darner
if do say it, and even if I don't like
the work besides-confronted me.
put them back in the basket, and
gathering up my new possessions re
Il turned to my sitting room with thu
feeling of gratitude toward the Jap
: anese peddler, the photographer, thu
cheese dealer, and the maker of hold
: ers, for they had helped me to perform
very distasteful task"
well" said the woman who wa
listening, you did your wifely duty t
, the heels and toes of the stocks, ant
q comforted the souls of the agents
a or most of them. But so far as econ
: omy is concerned Paul might hav
: bought new hosiery just as well an
you could have used the time practis
J, ing the new dance steps beside you
Il phonograph."
: Jobs comforter!" said the stay-at
home woman. 1.-The idean"-Chicag
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