Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1916-06-23

sPrstky easy for you complained
the man who had been telling his
Troubles 'sAli you've got to do is
hold ont your hand the drst Of the
month and let the grateful tenants
drop III their wadsl II owned e.
building IKE yours. now, tHhere'd be
some sense toa it"
sT7uh!" said the fiat owner sarcas-
ffca1ly ~ love to listen to your chat
teri 1t gives me a melancholy sort OF
pleasure very haRpTul just now wnen
! am fat elevenl Fiat elaven, I'd
have you know, Is a perfectly good
apartment. exactly ais stllfry end
steaun-pipey as a Fat renting for
twice the money, with art glass hx-
lures and shower in both bath
rooms ana real closets.
Yet fer some reason 1t has stood
vacant Tor nearly q year. anything
else in the building has rented. but
people have avoided number eleven
as though 1t had smallpox sign on
tie door. have soaobed ON the
shoulder Of the agent with biighting
scorn. have argued with him to
take on the jinx because needed that
fifty month to buy cigars-al1 to no
purpose. It got on my nerves and
didn't sleep nights and discharged
one janftor because he did not come
running with q Persian rug to lay
from the carriage entrance to the
front door when some prospective
tenants drove up ON a rainy day.
@And finally I hung around that
building like beggar with q tin cup
waiting for a thandout, so afraid was
that a tenant would get away
argued that if anybody did come to
lock at the fat nobody could speak
of it's virtues as feeliugiy as myself
and the janitor, being a smart man.
Was wont to come gallopdng across
L.
patrol was after him, shouting from
the middle of the street that / was
to coom-auick - Somebody-waE-
hooking -at-theZdat! The neigh
bors got used TO IL after a while and
did not rush to their front windows
suppose that only an owner could con-
tinue to thrill at the news.
"Owgust came running as usual a
while ago and he was so excited that
he could hardly talk. I gathered that
q lot of somebcdies were looking al
had already moved in from his dis
| jointed sentences. Grabbing my hat
and pausing only to tell my wife that
she could have the first fifty TO buy q
new dress, | rushed to The happy spot
| Opening the door decided that the
| for q party, for q perfectly babel o.
voices greeted me. I learned Iatel
that it was class in domestic ny
4 giene from the University High schoo
being led through in order to learr
what to avoid in apartments Al
first I supposed they had picked our
my fiat because it was such a perfec'
fiat and a lovely example for bud
| ding minds, hut as l supported my
/ lettering frame against the door
l,Iearned better.
How the teacher in charge of MI
expedition demanded. how does tht
living room affect you, Miss Dinks?'
Miss Drinks was aged Is, had {
| baby stare and a triple plated col1al
| effect that she was continually strug,
| Cling to rise above. Oh said Mis-
j Drinks Immediately, Il think it's per,
fectly awful It's only got four win
dows in front when it should havl
light on three sides, with the sun par
lor opening of the fourth! The cell
ings are six indies too high for com
/ plete harmony and the radiator Is il
the wrong spot, and there isn't an
| place for a grand piano! think
/ family that doesn't have a grand pi
ano is perfectly awful! And I dom
like the woodwork nor the electric
/ f1xtures!"
1--WE Just looked over the dining
| room chinned in another young per
son who moved with oriental 1anguor
It faces west when it should fac,
east, because nothing so puts a fam