Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1916-02-16

Don't talk to me-" said the girl with
| the wavy hair and the box of cara
melS, about the reward Of duty and
| inanitfes like thatI I started out the
new year with just one nice, neat lit
| tie resolve, which was to be kind to
my fellow men-and if, instead, it had
been to put poison in every ones
breakfast coffee 1 couldn't have had
| much more troubled
I've concluded that the average
| Fellow man can't stand kindness he
is constitutiona1ly untitled for it! Or
perhaps / was unfortunate in my Sc
lections; Anyhow. never dreamed
that Arthur would act so.
Arthur has been coming to see me
| off and on now for about three years.
He Is OF the upward and onward sort,
| who srits his teeth, and smiles brave
| ly on when you snub him. I am sure
| ne must have read a book somewhere
on the theory that If you make up
your mind hard enough about any
thing you want you are sure to sue
coed in getting it, because each time
have told him never, never would
marry him 1t hasn't made the slightest
bit of difference.
"1 have been consistently rude.
| Snappy and brutal to Arthur all these
years and my conscience sort of hurts
| me. Why, I asked myself, should !
treat man so cruelty when his only
fault was that he wouldn't stop liking
me? He really couldn't help it if
was so fascinating and alluring that
he was a helpless captive? So I be-
| gan being gentle and kind to Arthur.
II listened sweetly to all his remarks
in large eyed alteration and agreed
with him and mended ripped glove
and inquired after his cold in the
head and admired his necktie and in
| bread upon the waters, and what did I
get back? Arthur turned cocky, lord
ly and overbearing at once. Instead
of continuing a humble, patient slave
he burst into autocrattc power, and
while it had gone to his head COM
pletely he let another girl make him
think he was in love with her and
got engaged to her! The shock was
too much for him, you see, and his
temporary alteration resulted fatally,
because the other girl isn't nearly as
nice as 1 am-and what wouldn't l
give if I had continued to keep Ar
thur in misery, sane and sad, and
spared him what has befallen him!
Then, too, l have Jane on my con-
science. Jane is a girl who comes to
| visit me occasionally and who always
| has irritated me because she had such
possibilities and never lived up to
| them. Jane wasn't a particle popu-
| lar, and all the time 1 knew that it
was because she did her hair the
wrong way, didn't tilt her head so
that her profile was fetching, accented
| her sentences down instead of up and
never smiled at the psychological in
slant.
There she was, stumbling and
| plodding on her way, wondering what
on earth was the trouble with herself
and she always had bored me too
much or else 1 hadn't had the time to
| set her right. Well, I looked at Jane
| seriously this time and my heart re-
| preached me. 1t seemed a crime and
| sin and a shame that 1 hadn't done
it before. and I settled down to my
| task
81 talked to Jane like a Dutch uncle
and found her meek and tractabIe
| and then l put her through a course
| beginning with the correct corset and
| dressmaker, down through delsarte
and dancing classes, and you never
would have known the girl She was
| so pleased with herself when she found
| that she was really good looking and
| that the men were sitting up and
| taking notice that it was like getting
a sunstroke to have Jane beam on
youI
And she was so grateful! She said
| she realized that all she had needed
| was some one to set her straight, and
| she couldn't begin to thank me enough
| Whereupon she selected a shy, retir-
ing millionaire I had privately picked
out myself, beamed at him and they