Norwich bulletin., 1916-06-13

Some time when an automobile has run over me and ! am laia ID in the hospital with nothing to do but eat jelly and think" said the girl who likes to talk, q am going to trace out the mysterious connection between certain circumstances and certain eff fecte. For one, shall discover why 1t Is that every human woman, the instant she sets foot in beauty shop, is inspired to boast and to tell her troub1esi'
 s'Why, how silIy.'' objected the pa- tient listener. T am sure I-''
 T expect you're as bad as all the rest of emi" ruthlessIy asserted the girl who likes to talk. T should think the proprietors of the places and the want to go away and die when the end of the week comesi Inasmuch as they themselves are earth creAtures, no dcubt they have troubles of their own, so what do they care about yours
 Mo- said the customers voice in the booth next to mine the other day. no, Hattie, nothing but a shampoo to- day! Yes, the hot oil treatments did seem to do my hair good, but What's s the use of spending money for no pllr- poser If anybody cared how l look oh, Hattie. never marry a man whose soul is wrapped up in business ?'
 Soothing n1urmurs from Hattie sNo,' persisted the sad voice, you don't know anything about it! I can spend hours fixing myself up and my hus- band comes home and buries himself in the newspapers He wouldn't mo- tice if I had on a Fiji nose ring and my head shaved!
 If were like some women but thank heaven, I'm not! Attention from other men doesn't fiatter me-Pm above that! Ouch! ouch-h-h! Doni let the water run down my face, be- cause this powder have on is expen- sive. I suppose I ought to be thank full my husband isn't like my sisters he ran off with another woman anC cur family never had anything hap. pen like that before.
 Of course the time the bank di fectors put the blame for the failurt on my uncle and he got a five yea l sentence we bore it bravely, becaus, live knew he had done nothing wrong a Musaling never would soil his hand l that way-ouch! Goodness, Hattie but you pull, todayi While think o it, don't put bFilliantine on my hair it soiled the white lining of a hat l intended to take back after tn | Whites reception, because I don think such expensive things are suit able. hate to sp1urge, but had t keep it.
 1 That was one time my husban really dropped his newspaper and pal attention-when the bill came in! O. l the whole, I guess life is easier whe husbands don't notice one much. S far as hats go, anywayi
 Hurry up, Hattie, because I've go to be at committee meeting woul not miss for worlds-alI the mos fashionable women in town are on i and can't miss the chance to get m name in the papers with theirs!
 think a woman owes it to herself t l progTeSs-and besides there are a fer persons I'd like to have read 1t! Nc that I care at all for the society gam'
 Hattie-it is beneath me. But I hay my feelings."
 Meanwhile and in addition I've bee getting much of the procedure in tn
 booth on the other side and when th
 shampooed lady departs receive 1t i fuli force. And so I always go straigf
 to the most expensive dressmakers she says plaintively, because it \. cheaper in the end. I must hay
 things just right. What is a hundre
 dollars extra if you are getting wTaa
 you want? I never could understan
 why women haggle over such triflin
 amount! think it shows a small na turei T expect some people would sa
 was extravagant to pay four hun
 dred for my last evening wrap, but
 has style to iL-and that is what yo
 pay for.
 ''T always have my shoes made t
 order, too-New York. Nobody ca