Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-30
HIS VIVID MEMORIES

Tt had tucks running up and down and crosswise." enthusiastically re- ported the f1uffy@ little woman, "and the lace was put on"
 "Cease!" interrupted her husband, who was not supposed to be listening. He laid down his paper and shook his head. You remind me Of my Aunt Josie. Aunt Josie permeated my childhood days with an atmosphere or things sartorial until in my youthful cynicisn l was accustomed to wonder why women didn't dress in leaves, if clothes made them so much trouble and anguish!
 When Aunt Josie came to visit the family she brought ten trunks and 8 worried face and an ability to sniff and recognize the presence of any thing new in the way of Q waist or skirt pattern within Q radius of i've miles. Any woman resident of our town who deluded herself into the be- lief that she had something absolutely new and unique was forced shrieking s to surrender it's design at once to Aunt Josie. l know, because I had to run the errauds.
 {" Willie mother would say you run over to Mrs. Peppergun's and ask her please to let you take that bodice she has just had made. It's for Aunt Josie
 
 1t this a2ternOOnl Now, hurry
 Away I would go, knowing what was coming to me.
 My new bodicel' Mrs. PeDpergun would cry. Then she would snort in 0 iadylEle way. Well, I must say. Of course. I'd do anything to oblige your mother and I know that she isn't ask ing for herself. But that bodice de- sign is absolutely neW-and l must say
 "By this tir7e the bodice would be wrapped and delivered reluctantly in to my griny paws and I would depart feeling that l was a criminal and 6 robber and wishing Aunt Josie at the bottom of the sea.
 T always would find her either on the front porch or at the window anx- iou5iV awaiting my return, and she would snatch the parcel from me as a drowning sailor would grab at a life preserver. Aunt Josie's room and the family sitting room would be one flood i of I0Cdices. No, they didn't call them blOUseS then. I can rcmar7ber hearing my mother relate to q ncighbOr in aC- cents of nlinClcd pride and dismay thai Aunt Josie had dfty-fCur b0dices with her on this triD. With the fiftv-four sUrglng about her, Aunt Josie would eye the prey she had torn from Mrs. PeDpergun with the enthusiasm of the ] discorerer.
 T have absolutely nothing like i- Amanda. she would cry joyOusly to my mother. Sec. The tucks run crossWise as well as up and down and the lace is set in On the bias, Besides it is shiTred!' The shirring cIinched the matter and in q fever O9 excite ment Miss Simpkins. the seamstrass was g0U in and started copying Mrs PeDperSun's pet bodice to add to Aunt Josie's collection. It was the same way with hats.
 "'Ananda,' Aunt Josie vyo777d hraai. | out eXcitedly, did you notice the hat i Mrs. Yardstick had on today at the Aid society meeting? I couldn't quite decide how that ribbon was twisted. Do | you suppose that Willie could run over and borrow it for an hour or sop 1 would be nailed just as was sneakine hastily out of the back door and dis l patched to the YardsticE home, where l l was greeted with m n5 0 disaDDrOvlna 1 e7NItTs, but sUcceCded as usual in caD- ! turing my prey. ThcreupOn Aunt Josie 1 already owning two trunks full of hats 1 and bonnets. would SCOUT the town tc ] buy ma erlaI to make Q. hat like Mrs Yardstic-5s.