Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-14

Saw Susan and that young Bingham start out to the movies a while ago. said the woman from across the hall, who had run in to call on Susan's mother. ''She did look so pretty! And that young Bingham"
 "Oh, my!" said Susan's mother dis consolately. That wasn't Art1e Bing- ham with her! It's a new beau Lionel Daggins!"
 "You don't say!" cried the woman from across the hall. Another onel
 .so did l." confded susan's mother. "It doesn't do to think where Susan IS concerned! Its waste of time: Seems to me I've done nothing put think ever since Susan began having beaus, which has been about always: Why I'll never forget the shock had when she was 16 and her hair still in curls down her back! She and the Smith hoy who played tennis with her and took her to dancing school an nounced that they thought they'd get marrted-and 1t took college in the far cast for the Smith boy, and long visit to her aunt in Wyoming for Susan, to head that off"
 She was dreadfully bored when talked grocery bills to her, and said the Smith boy and she had minds above mere materialism!"
 Just as I was getting my nerve set tied from that, Susan arrived back home." continued Susan's mother. Her aunt wrote that two of the cowboys were so crazy about Susan that she feared an elopement and declined the responsibility. Susan did not pine very much about this second blight on her romance. She said they were perfectly gorgeous cowboys, but ne1th- CT of them had eyes like the young {INO cn her on the train, attending to trunks and porters and things. The young southerner stayed month in Chicago and he and Susan built at least six ideal southern homes with three-hun dred foot vines twining over their noble fronts and retinues of colored people lining the lawns-til1 I guess his money gave out and he had to leave amid tears and promises of things everlasting.
 q was so afraid that she really would marry the lackadaisica1 creature that I was actually relieved when she said she thought she'd do some charity work-untiI that young reformer, Ed wards, began bringing her home. There is nothing more terrible than reformer when he makes up his mind and Susan's father and I nearly died. The only thing that saved us was that Susan decided that she could never really love a man who clung to frock coats and drowned on the theater.
 ''She came to this decision after that college friend of Milly Jones' brother came on for visit. He lasted so long and really was such a nice boy that had resigned myself gracefully. And then all of a sudden I discovered he and Susan had ceased to correspond. demonstrated with Susan in this case because he had seemed very devoted to her and was sure she had treated him badly.
 Susan merely turned her reproach- ful eyes upon me in a pained surprise and said that surely I did not want her to marry a man whom she had de- cided she could not love. She said that while he was good looking and of fine character and with plenty of money and certainly fond of her, somehow their souls were not mates. There were times when they did not would I very much mind if she asked Artie Bingham to dinner, inasmuch as he had been so nice to her lately? ~ -. ..-
 Thus began the Bingham reign, and I thought that this time 1t was a fatal attack. I really was considerably worn out readjusting Susan in my mind all these years. A girl never stops to think how hard it is on a parent to be eternal1y transposing her from one matrimonial setting into another, from trees and Spanish moss