Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-31

"She certainly had some system" related Miss Pearlie Fattershall, ad- dressing the stenographer from across the hall as they ate their luncheon II take off my hat to that grill"
 Why" she explained, when saw her getting out of the stage that brought the visitors to the farm all l felt was a great emotion of sorrow for herl You poor, fat. helpless thing!' I said. Coming way out here for vacation and a good time and not knowing you're going to get 1t Tn the neck! I know your sort! You'll turn purple when you walk a block and you'll scream at a toad and faint urally will shake you! They like a girl to be active and athletic and ready for anything!'
 'Tt was even worse than I predicted. They guyed her when they weren't letting her alone. She had little thin sister along about as big as a minute, one of the kind made of wires and fiddle strings, who could swim a mile in the morning, walk ten, play tennis in the afternoon and turn up for supper as cool as a daessy, without a bead of precipitation on her nose during the whole series. ,=e .s
 At the same time Evelyn-the fat, lazy one = just sat around looking helpless. Her big. cowlike eyes look ed wiStful over the tennis players and she said that somehow she never could learn to swim. She wouldn't even come down to the beach to watch the rest of us. She explained that the hot sun affected her heart, and any, how, she didn't want to get Sunburned +think of itl When the rest of us were actually jealous of any extra men sort of raised their eyebrows when she said. it and they took to brining her sample tubes of cold cream from the drug store every time they went to the village.
 "Oscar-the one I told you was al- ways doing Stunts-would rush and get an umbrella and hold it over her when she was sitting on the porch in the shade behind the vines. He said he couldn't bear to have a fieck on Evelyn's perfect check. Instead of getting mad and sassing him, she just smiled her slow, cowlille smile with her eyes all round and soft, just as though she thought he was being kind to her.
 And LaffIin. the man who had his fivver with him, took Evelyn riding the day after she had declined to walk to the spring with him on the ground that walking exhausted her, and let his car get stuck four miles from the farm. 1 wish you could have seen Evelyn when she came home from that return tramp. She was purple and magenta and gasping for breath with every step and as wet as though she had fallen in the lake. I'll bet that four miles was more than she had done since she was a wee child! Lafflin was just calm and grim and never even said ne was sorry when she fell up the steps and was led away by her wisp of a sister, who danced around frantically and said she knew Evelyn would simply die and would somebody get some ice quickly?
 '"The other fellows clapped Lafflin on the back and said it was a great ioke-and then he snapped out that it wasn't joke at all, but a deed of charity. He said he was going to transform that girl into 2 real hu- man being.
 "I don't know why she consented to go out in a rowboat with him after the fivv7r episode, except that he had a compelling way, but she went and he managed to tip the boat over and ducll her good and plenty. Being a good swimmer, it was no trick at all for him to bring her ashore. while the rest of us in swimming shriekcd with joy as Eveiyn sort of foPped up the bank like drowned fish, with her hair all streaming and her eyes sort of wild.
 We didn't blame Lafflin at all for