Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-21

that he would have to give up his lit- tie treat and let me give him lamb en casserole. That's one of his favorite dishes.
 "Yes, indeed! It's just a postponed pleasure. We don't believe in getting humdrum- We are always thinking of gay little outings.
 When the opera was here Billy in- vited me to it every week. We're both devoted to music and we like the best.
 Well, no, we didn't go every week. In fact, we didn't go at all. You see, l thought it would be better to familiar lze ourselves with the operas more be- fore hearing them. So I borrowed a splendid book that told all about them and we read that aloud and I played over some of the scores of the old operas happened to have, and we feel now ~that we are really prepared to enjoy and appreciate almost every thing that Is likely to be sung here next year. We expect to get season | tickets, and I think I shall have an opera cloak. I may as well use my Consolidated Investments dividends for for some elegant clothes as for any thing else.
 No, I don't own the stock myself, but Billy does, and the dear old gen. erous boy gives me the dividend ev- cry quarter.
 Well, you see, thers only been | one ulN1OenO yet, ne mas owned Ine stock only little while.
 NO, didn't buy a rug. You see the dividend came just before Billy's | birthday, so I gave 1t back to him for a birthday present. l told him he | must buy a new overcoat, but when he
 went to his tailor he discovered that | his old coat could be made to look | like a this years model, as the tailor said with a fresh collar and the but | tonholes worked over. So what was | the use of spending all that dividend | for a new coat that he didn't really 1 need? He said he could get lots more
 real fun out of it by paying for his life | insurance.
 Sometimes, Cousin Alice, detest
 that old life insurance, because
 know I couldn't live a single day il
 Billy were gone, so what's the use oi
 thing we'll neither of us ever need But Billy's actually stern sometimes!
 'Yes. this is a sweet little flat. think it's about the coziest nest in thu world! Billy says we must have ; | grander one soon, but I tell you
 Cousin Alice, I'm in no hurry to move It's child play to do the work here and if we had a large apartment w,
 should have to have so many elegan
 things, which I should have to talk
 care of. for, of course, if Billy bough me mahogany and fine china 1 should
 not think of leaving them to a maid
 No. indeed, And, if I were keeping
 house every minute I wouldn't hav
 time for music and my dressmaking.
 Yes. I make everything I wear
 Billy wished me to have a tailored sui
 this spring, but I said to him that
 couldn't see, when he always says Tn the most tastefully dressed little wo
 man he knows, why I should employ tailor, who might not understand m, own particular style at all perhaps So I'm going to make my spring sui myself, and when we drive out to SC , you in June you'll agree that I'm pretty clever mOdiste. Come to thin } of it, however, if I have on my bes } suit we may not motor out to you place after all, because I shouldn'
 wish to get it all dust. We can go O. | the train just as well, and then we1 l be perfectly independent. I hate | ! feel that anybody, even a paid chauf
 feur is waiting for me.
 5 ''Oh. dear! Must you really go2 did wish to tell you a lot about Billy It seems so queer to think that yo
 never saw him except at the wedding ? Doesn't 1t seem as if had been mar ried longer than six months? I don see how l ever existed without Bill, 5 If I shoud get started to talking aboJ s him I'd go on for hours. He's reall l quite a complex character. Now yo 5 know ordinary men don't l ''Wenl, if you really must go, good
 by! It's been perfectly lovely to SC Q youI Shall I give your love to Billy l He'll be so glad to hear all about vol g dear Cousin Alice."-Chicago News.