Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-22
WHAT'S THE USE

tell her all about her girlhood days in New Hampshire or something else interesting.
 T never neglected Harrietts com fort, so she never had anything to complain about Aunt Susan is con- an enduring taIker--when she gets started slfe doesn't stop so long as the oxygen in the air holds out. Harrlett was not at all the sort of girl whom George Brighter would have liked and really considered that l was doing him a good turn and earn ing his eternal gratitude by rescuing him from her constant society. played fair with her-I did not drag in a lot of girls to confuse George and utterly distract him. There was just myself, and Harriet certainly could not have objected to hat, because she had plenty of time with him by her self-breakfasts and such opportuni- ties.
 Anyhow, every one has to take her chance in this world. I think and it is such mistake not to realize it! If l md another girl is heaps more attractive than I am and some man likes her better than he does me why l take it philosophicalIy instead p of cherishing a. grudge!
 She really became quite catty to- ward the end of Georges visit, but bore it all and never relaxed my ef- forts to give him a good time.
 I'm sure I don't know what liar riett told him to stop his writing, but I am certain that she got in some deep work there, because when he left I told him that I did so want to know how his new work in the east came out and that I'd always be delighted to hear from him. He seemed grate- ful and was just going to promise to write when Harriett interrupted. She always was interrupting-it was the best thing she did!
 She and I hadn't seen much of each other since then until last week when l was surprised to death to have her come up, all smiles and tell me quite cordially, that George Brighter was coming again to visit them. I wss glad to see that she had realized how silly she had been the other time to try and keep us apart. 1 had prom ised to go out to the JOneSses at the lake last week, but I cancelei that. thought it my duty as a Chicagoan to try and see that George had a good time. l knew he must have enjoyed the previous visit or he never would have come again.
 Luckily my rose silk jersey suit was just home from the cleaners and I wore that, and the hat to match the morning of his arrival. I really had to return a book of Harriett's anyway It was one I had borrowed ages ago and so 1t was quite natural for me to drop in. George was sitting alone on the yeranda and I thought it really most cOnsiderate of Harriet to let us greet each other without outsiders near.
 George seemed awfully glad to see me and I was just telling him how glad I was to see him and how I'd been practicing up my tennis stroke, when a perfectly strange new girl walked out on the porch and George, still beanling in that idiotic way in troduced his wife to me.
 He was on his wedding tripi What ever he could see in her.
 "Of course. after that I wired the Joneses right away, but they had filled my place and I've had perfect ly wasted week! You can better be- lieve after that trick of hers I wasn't going to help Harriett do any enter taining during the Blighters' stayI She can take care of her own com pany!"
 Well, should say sol" agreed the girl with the ring. T suppose now that he's married she didn't want to bother with him!''-Exehanre