Norwich bulletin., 1917-02-01

'T thought you were going to move" Simmons said to the man at the club, You said something about it the last time I saw you"
 We haven't given it up yet" the man said. My wife is looking for a near town. not cold in the winter nor hot in the summer, not among the fashiona;bles and yet with congenial neighbors, with enough rooms so that we can entertain our married children when they come to town and yet small enough so that it won't be Q care to her, and as yet we haven't found such one"
 .It's rather late in the season. isn't | it ?'
 My wife says it isn't really late enough, the man laughed. She says the longer you wait the better bargain you get. She contends that real es- tate man will rent you a palace for next to nothing if you just wait till the moment when he despairs of sell ing or renting to anybody. She pie day after day for some one to come in and rent the place and she Is ab- solutely sure that he learns to hate the very sight of it when he can't get rid of 1t.
 'The other day her imagination scared as high as romance and she said that she was going to pick out some young real estate man who was
  that he would persuade the owner to rent at a very low figure, because he was anxious to get the commission to marry on. She has a high idea of the sale commissions and rental percent ages. As yet she hasn't found one"
 If hear of an engaged real estate man I'll call you up and tell you about him." said Simmons.
 Thanks, awfully!'' the other men said, grinning. T shall not expect to hear from you. One thing that makes that my wife wants an entirely new house. She says 1t saves her so much money in the cleaning of 1t, because there is so little to do. She hates to and curtain poles in unexpected places are a horror. We want to see one house where we found an old shoe ly- ing in the middle of the dining room, stairs to look at these rooms. I tried to persuade her there had been wedding, but she did not believe me.
 Personally I like to look at houses in which people are still living, be- cause it is nice to see how the place will furnish up and then, too, you get tips on the thing unless the occupant happens to be the owner. In one house the tenant was so sore at the landlord that he couldn't say enough against the heating of it. As 1t was on the lake shore it got all the breeze there was. and he had great tales to tell. His wife had had pneumonia there and all of them had suffered from colds. He said that he went out doors to get warm in winter and he sat in the sun to cool off in summer. He added that he had told all the neighbors about it and he hoped the owner would never rent the place. Needless to say, we did not take it"
 "If I had a tenant like that I'd let him off a months rent to get rid of him. Simmons laughed. Maybe then he wouldn't go!"
 Like the man who had our flat when we took it,'' the other said. "He had two months rent free on the south side and he wouldn't give up day of April. That's another advan- tage of waiting till late in the winter -or early. as you please. You don't have to stand around for somebody else"
 'Yes, but don't delay too long," Sim mons warned him. When Mrs. Sim mons and I first went to housekeep- ing it was in February and the snow was deep. You know how it used to be in old days ?''
 Don't I,'' thought ESleighing and snowshoeing and a1l."
 Well" Simmons continued, "there had been one of those storms. We had been boarding and we were anx- ious to have a home of our own, so we went out to Evanston to look at available property there. It wasn't so easy to get around in those days and it took us a good while to get out there. However, when we saw the place that we afterward took we were