Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-06

about my cfeverness to other mothers when I would find them fraptically alarming or flending with one eye on the clock and theif distracted minds on the mending at which they were due at that minute or the pie they should be baking. told them that they were exceedingly foolish and what they needed was to give their offspring sense of responsibility Whenever I took care to survey Marguerite minutely she appeared to be quite all right and properly garbed. You are attending to mending the ! things as they come up from the laun- 1 dry each week?' I would inquire, and l oh, yes, mother!' my child would re- 1 spond sweetly and promptly. l was amazed to find how easy it was. And then I started to pack her trunk the | day before she was going on a weeks i house party
 You aren't going to faint or any
 thing, are you?" inquired the au- dience
 Whats the use now it's over?" de- nanhed She tired looking lady. T
 give you my word that as l dragged 1 things out from bureau drawers and
 from hangers in Elosets I became
 more and more shocked and feeble.
 Incidentally, did not know that there
 were so many safety pins in the world
 or of such infinite size and variety.
 When l finished extracting them | had several bushels strewn around and the apparel they had adorned was lying much apart, sad and buttonless. Every loose button which had shank | was pinned on with a safety pin. The
 ends of coat pockets which had ripped loose were fastened with safety pins. A troublesome coat sleeve lining that being loose let ones hand slide be-
 tween it and the sleeve itself was
 neatly pinned with a row of 'em. All
 the buttons and tabs on her knitted sweater were pinned from the inside Lace ruffles were pinned up in fes- toons on her best petticoats. Georg-
 cite blouses with nonpinnable buttons
 were buttonless and showed signs ot
 being pinned together on the outside with fancy dress pins
 One thing which baffled her genius
 was stockings. Nobody no matter
 how willy, can pin holes in hosiery to- gether and the result was that the
 holes fourished extensively.
 Safety pins took the place of al hooks and eyes, long vanished from in side belts of dresses and Things. Well, started in. I used needles
 thread, scissors, sewing machine anC |
 ands of buttons, papers and papers l of hooks and eyes and snappers, miles i of rents. darned till I was pale purple i in the face. If she was content t l be dressed that way, the proper theOr! | was to let her alone till she woke III | to her iniqUity. but I simply couldn'
 have her appearing at a house part.
 in that state.
 T ate no dinner because I had nt
 time and when Marguerite hersel s strolled in at o'clock, having dinet l at friends and sweetly inquiret 7 whether 1 had got her trunk packed r and, oh, yes, was there anything sh ;. could do? 1 exploded and blew up. V When I was through she couldn'
 see why pins didn't do just as well in [ asmuch as I had never known she wa e pinned together until I investigated : and, oh, yes, if she washed that ros I sweater now wouldn't it be dry whe |. the trunk went at | in the morning : And a sweater in damp weather take . a week to dry out.
 T went to bed with an ice bag O
 my throbbing brow and Marguerit
 got off the next day perfectly happ = because I was downtown that minut e buying whole hosiery and things | t mail her to save her from disgrac y But I don't believe in fairies or theo It ries any more!'
 0 silly" said her audience "Yo1 7. own child has proved your theor e beautifully-she didn't do what sE :; should and somebody else, being yor . did do it.''
 :" "oh. my goodness!" moaned tf d tired lady, 50 she has."-Exchange