Norwich bulletin., 1916-01-22

Mrs. Curtis stood by the window looking out on the icy street where her nine-year- boy was selling pa- pers: The room was poorly furnish- | of the day in a mall il-order house for I the small sum of six dollars a week. which with the small earnings of the little boy furnished the necessities of life.
 1 Her husband seldom contributed d dollar but managed to earn enough to keep himself drunk and to make her life miserable.
 She was thinking of the bright hopes with which she closed up the old death of her mother. twelve years be- fore and went to the city. Two years after she met and married Dan Cur tis and all too soon found that life for her would be hard struggle. She had never been back home and had never spoken of 1t to anyone since she left it in. charge Of neighbor. l A few months before a well known magazine had offered a prize of one I hundred dollars and today the money came. Her employer had cashed the check fc% her in small bills and she had come home to think of the fu- lure.
 Dan staggered in soon after. too drunk to think of supper, and after a few oaths he threw himself on the t5SCQ III LH1o DSQIOOI4 anu slept
 She made cup of tea. sliced and I buttered loaf of bread and packed fl Il in a pasteboard box, brought out a | good sized canvas extension case and a travelling bag, and put on her one decent dress-a dark gray-with coat land hat to match.
 When Arthur came in she washed him and made him eat a lunch and they began their journey.
 Down town she stopped in a store land bought him shoes and stockings I underclOthes, a suit, cap. coat and nit Items, and underclothes for herself She put on his coat and cap and packed the other things in her travelling bag and went to the depot where she bought a ticket for the city nearest home"
 It was late in the evening and she made Arthur comfortable on a turned seat and got little rest herself. On the second morning she left the train and went to grocery store where she filled the extension case the first few days before taking ths electrics for a three hours ride thai ended at cross-road half mile from home
 As she approached the house for tht first time in twelve long years, shs which had furnished feed for the cowl in the past, and which had sincepaiC the neighbor for his care of the place
 the tiny house with slopling roof the tiny COW shed; hen house ant
 the woodshed by the door near thu
 we'll.
 I Back of the house was the garde1
 with it's row of currant bushes anC
 rhubarb. There were a few appl
 trees scattered around. while a cher ry tree shared the front yard with lilacc and some old fashioned roses Ol
 theopposite side of the road was tn
 tangled wood lot that had been cu
 to furnish money for her mother sickness and death. and the little fam
 fly cemetery where slept her parent and grandparents, and two or thre little ones.
 She unlocked the front door an, ! went into the tiny hall with straight narrow stairs leading to- the loft, an,
 a door on the right opening with tn T living room There was the rag car CTS, with calico cushions and backs
 a fall-leaf table with a red felt GOV
 CT and a lamp in the center, an air
 tight stove, a calico covered home
 made couch and an old-time desk. OI
 the wall was a set of book-shelves ant
 pictures of Washington and Lincoln
 On a little stand was the family Bibl
 and work basket, and on the marrow
 shelf stood the old clock and a pal
 of china vases: Everything showed | l1tLL 1NG1SnDOT BTOWn ana ms ROGt
 wife had been faithful to their trust.
 Back of this room was the bed
 room, also carpeted with rag carpet
 with four-foot bedstead with strav and feather ticks( pillow; an old-tim
 bureau; wash stand with bowl ant
 pitcher: and a little stand and a split
 bottomed chair.
 Beside the bedroom door was tn kitchen with an old-fashioned cook
 stove square table covered with oi Il cloth and four split chairs. On tn Il high shelf was a small lamp. In tn
 corner cupboard was the dishes an.
 in the small '1ean-to" at the bacl
 was the little sink room and a pan try.
 Up stairs was a space filled witl
 chests and boxes and a small room with homemade rugs. a--bed. wash