Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-21
THEY USED THEIR BRAIN

"Well!" said the father of the fam l fly. hanging up the telephone receiver just as Caroline entered the room | that person certainly was insisted. Wanted to speak to the lady who had
 lost her pocket book, and she acted as | the old aaken chest when I told her that she mad the wrong numberi
 Funny how mad they. get when it's
 their own fault"
 "O-o-ohn cried Caroline. congeaied | into statue in the center of the
 room. That must have been Jessie's pocket book! And TOW you've gone and lost it again."
 'sWho the"
 Why" Caroline explained glib1y ''the girls were over here last Sat- urday and Jessie lost her poclset book
 and there wasn't a place she could have lost it except getting out of El- sie's machine here in front of the house. So suppose somebody has Sound iti"
 The head Of the family sat down
 heavily. Wait" he ordered. 'In
 that case how would any one who found 1t known our connection with the affair or our telephone number?" Why, I don't know" said Caroline. Isn't it funny and who do you sup pose it is could have found 1t? Elsie left her machine around the corner at the candy store, too, and Jessie might have dropped it there before she walk ed over here-"
 Lock the doors and wire Sherlock" :" said the father of the family, flor this looks like real mystery! Unless the telephone person is professional mind reader I can't see why she should have connected us with a casually found pocket book. Maybe she took random and drew us. Still"
 How silly!" cried Caroline. Why, s-poee--naybe somebody on the train heard Jessie talking about it and she mentioned our name and"
 "Oh quite sol" agreed her father. "Alniust any resident of Chicago hear ing our name-tnere are fif.y-five of us in the directory-wor1ld at once clap a hand to his brow and with il- iumination bursting forth from every feature mechanically shout cut that we must be the very persons who re- sided at such and such a number in that gorgeous house two stories high and by jove, our telephone numper was so-and-so. Pll let that's the way it happened! It's the most natural, convincing explanation one could ask" |, Well, it might have happened sol" Caroline insisted, indignantly.
 Yes" said the father of the family.
 y diamonds in the breakfast oatmeal. No longer ago than to-day I read of a man who was skin aing dead mule and discovered a two-carat diamond imbedded in the hide, You never can tell What Pm trying to get at Is the rattle -breinedness of you kids! Why shouldn't Jessie have mentioned her own name and address instead of yours?"
 Well" defended Caroline, "you see. she lives way out in Riverside and I suppose she thought 1t would be cas- fer if any one found it to call us up! So@ ! 's>.s l.1zfi' eff
 'fThen." pursued her relentless par ent wearily, eff she did that, why un- der creation didn't she let you know and why didn't you spread the glad news among your family so that tele- phone calls might be answered cor rectly? Was there much in the pocket book?" 7s%--"- -s'.7
 "Oh. heapse"s Caroline said ssJessie was just wild! And she does use her head and so do I and it seems to me when you answered that phone yoil might have thought that maybe some one had lost her pocket book here in- stead of shutting her off and-''
 T suppose sol" said her father. "If some one called up and asked me to tell the king of Zanzibar, who is play ing pinochle in our coal cellar, that stocks are down I presume I should