Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-24

Hyde Park to his friend from Wood lawn. T am opposed to higher euuca-
 sweet, trusting little creatures, con tent to nnbiba their wisdom at our hands and"
 T take it that your wife has put one over on youI" said the Woodlawn man, with disagreeable cIeverness.
 Huh" replied the Hyde Park man. "Of course there are many different
 points of view and all sorts of people to pick them outi Be that as it may, don't think any married wonar should take up astronomy for a Ight occupation!
 That was what I told Imogene whel
 she expressed her shame for knowiTl7
 nothing about the stars and vowed that she should repair the omission at once. I begged her in deep, rich tones to go in for botany or tatting or some other interesting subject that could be tracked on it's lair in the daytime, but she paid just about as much at tention to me as a woman married ten years usually pays to her husbands advice.
 When we were coming home from the movies that night Inogene had her head bent backward trying to de- eide whether Cassiopeia's chair wasn't the Big Dipper and she walked right into a. young man whose attention was completely absorbed by the girl at his side. I hadn't seen him, either, be- cause I was accompanying Imogene in her search of the heavens, and I step ped on the young lady'S ankle.
 Judging from her walls her leg must have been broken in sixteen places, but Imogene assured me that she did that merely to arouse fse young mans tender sympathy and it served her right for wearing such tight shoes The young man said after the collision that of course Inn ogene couldn't be expected to know that he had five ? cent cigars in the pocket against which she had hurI- ed herself and luckily his employment did not demand the use of his left arm, which seemed completely par alyzed. They were really a most dis agreeable couple, because even when I1nogene had explained to them that she was a student of astronomy they expressed no satisfaction whatever.
 T woke up in the middle of 3ha night and saw Imogene piunging headforemost through a bedroom win dow. At least when I saw her most of her was gone. Drugged with sleep as I was I made one spring and grab ping her around her demented ankles attempted to drag her back from her strange attempt at eif-destruction. S'us'V and tLr people below us @tiN look at Gueerly as though wondering why the divorce hasn't come off.
 When I did get ImOgene inside the room again and turned on the light 1 never saw naddeT woman. She said that she had just succeeded iI getting the magazine chart-Which which she still held firmly in one fist turned so that the light from the corner street lamp struck it right and was about to locate Capella when l spoiled i- all. She was terribly wor- Ia 1.1rft7 11xr hY.iCr I,t star in the east was not Capella after all-Wasn't there a blazing star call- ed Alderbau or som mething-or maybe 1t was Venus that was so bright. What did I think?
 T don't know anything more pleas ing than being awakened from sound sleep in the middle of the night to decide whether or not a star is Ca pela and I told Irnogene eso. L ex- plained that behind all the reckless gayety and cheerful abandon of my long life there always had lain a gnawing unrest and now Ial1new what it was-it was the worry over whether or not that bright eastern star was Capel!a!
 T dashed to the window and had a look and then waved my arms and danced madlY all over the room, cry ing with great joy that it was. it must be, it was indeed Capclla' Nothing mattered since I was assured of that fact-I didn't care whether the gro- cery bill ever got paid or whether the taxes were foroclosed now that the vii tai question of this being Capella was finally settled.
 T dashed to the window and had a look and then waved my arms and-I danced madly all over the room, cry ing with great joy that it, was, it must be, it was indeed Capella! Moth ing mattered since I was assured of that fact didn't care whether the grocery bill ever got paid or whether the taxes were foreclosed now that the vital question of this being CapeIla was finally settled.
 And Imogene said cuttingly that I needn't stay up just to show what perfect idiot I could be when I put my mind upon it. And as for herself she would go into the spare room where she might pursue her studies