Norwich bulletin., 1916-01-20
LITTLE SISTER HELPS

old ties. I've got list already yard
 long. I'll be ever so much obliged,
 LiL I've an engagement or I'd stay
 home and help you"
 T don't believe you'd help much,
 Judging from your vague ideas about Aunt Flossie.g ansWeren Ltlnan. good naturedly, as she switched on the light beside her desk, and began to study her address book.
 She was occupied the greater part of the evening copying names and ad- dresses, for some of which she had to search in the telephone directory. It was late when the last one was writ ten. She had hestitated several min utes before writing it and then after 1t had been slowly penned she read it aloud. It had always seemed an un- usually attractive name to her and she enjoyed repeating It.. But if did not really belong on the list. She an ink eraser. and painstahingly rub bed it out, and then she put the list into an envelope. and resumed the book which she had been reading when her brother interrupted her with his request.
 "Oh, Lil," called Hiram the next
 morning as he was leaving the house, -did you get those names written down for me?"
 Yes. here's the list" You're trump, sisl Sure you've got everybody" ?"
 'Yes-oh, no--there is one more" She took the envelope from his hand, and. opening it, hastily scribbled on the margin of the paper. There. now, I've done it--all.'' she remarked, a bit
 You're getting too stout to run downstairs the way you do. Lib teased Hiram. looking at his slip of a sister amusedly.
 That evening Lillian inquired wheth- CT the cards has been sent and Hiram ! told her that his stenographer and office boy were working overtime on I them.
 T addressed a few dozen myself,
 but long before got to your list my enthusiasm waned,', he explained. There's such a confounded number of them that Pm giving the office
 force a bonus for getting them out to night"
 One day, soon after New Years, he came home from a rubber of bridge 1 at this club in order to take his sister out to dinner. She noticed an un- wonted air of excitement in Hiram's l demeanor.
 l I'll wager you'l never guess who spoke to me at the club a little while ago. he remarked.
 | T have no directory of your club and if I had I daresay I shouldn't
 know" answered Lillian laughing. l NO, of course, and you'l never guess. But just imagine how amazed was when Gerald Amber came uI l to me in the eoatroom and held out his hand and wished me happy New I Year. You could have knocked ma
 down, Lil. Why, you know that he and I have not spoken for years, not 1 since the day we had that awful TOW on the football field before we got oui sheepskins. Good old Jerryl Hon estly, sis, I've thought hundreds oi l times that it was wretchedly stupid l yes worse than stupid, really wrong i for us to let that one fierce quarre had from the time when our nurses used to take us to play in the park | But, somehow, I never could brins
 myself to make the first advance. l guess Jerry's got more sand than have. He came up to me with suci thought he had had too much egg nogg, but not a bit of 1t. His hanC was as steady as mine. He told mt afterward that he doesn't drink {
 drop. might have known it from | the old days.
 I He said with little catch in hi. voice. Hiram. old fellow, it's great great to repair a friendship-great Hi And we shook hands so hard i I hurt.
 l It was a funny coincidence, wasn' 1 it, LII, that he should use so nearl. the same words that I quoted iron Dr. Johnson on my New Year cards
 A man, sire, should keep his friend ship in constant repair You remem I ber?''
 "Yes, I remember" answered Lillian softly.-Chicago News.