Norwich bulletin., 1920-10-06

I'm sure I don't know what variety | of mind I have" sighed Loretta. There must be some sort of technical name for it, but I don't know what it is"
 "I should think you'd be glad to sus- pect you have any kind" her brother said, "and not worry over it's name in Latin. Whats the trouble with your al- legged mind, anyhow?"
 Its what I call place mind,' you know" Loretta told him dolefully. You see, I do things all the while mechanical ly. I hang my coat on the same hook every time and if somebody else gets ahead of me and hangs something ehere I am all upset. It's the same way when they move the furniture I've been sleeping all summer on the third floor, you know, and now that I have moved down I am lost
 '"The other morning I heard the tele- phone ring and I jumped out Of bed to answer it. It was still quite dark and bumped my head on the bookcase just because I have the kind of mind that re- membered there wasn't any bookcase in the room I've been sleeping in. It was not impressed on my inner consciousness that I had to dodge any furniture when I bounced up in the dark"
 After all, it was probably the wrong ] number" said her brother, cheerfully. What did it to to the beekcase?' Tt hurt my head in three places" Lo- retta told him severely. T don't think | you are very sympathetic. It took a 1 piece off the fancy edge three inches | long-off the bookcase"
 "I thought it was a snaH matter at
 first" her brother said solemnly, "bu'
 now I am really worried.'' T wondered if you had no heart. |
 hurt "Oh, I wasn't worried about you" ht said calmly Your head will get oxel it, but mahogany cases cost money 1 "Heartless wretch" cried Loretta throwing sofa pollow his way and hit ting the lamp. However, that tale wa only to illustrate that peculiar brain 0 mine that gets accustomed to hapin
 things to a certain place and can't chang
 easily. It's the same way with tn
 faucets. In that room upstairs the ho
 water faucet is the right hand one, an
 I've burned myself any number of time just because all the other hot water fau cets are the left hand ones"
 , You should take cold baths like me, Don't get started on that hobby, [ Loretta pleaded. Well, anyhow, to g. ! to the LOUll-
 "Oh, there is one. then T'
 'I bought an alarm clock last wee ? and when I got it home it wouldn't go. Would that we had cook to match : T tried everything under the sun Loretta went on unheeding. T shook 3 I put it in warm room, I moved it n Q cool one,-I oiled it. I read the diree e tions. which simply said, Set and win
 and still it wouldn't so much as tick"
 'Why didn't you get the clerk to e7 l. plain it's mysteries?" her brother aske f That's what I do when I buy toy" e You pick out the prettiest salesms : for the task laughed Loretta, land the
 when you set it home you can't make
 go yourself. So you mail it to vol
 1 nephews and say you should worry. I a
 ] quite accustomed to clocks and I thoug A I could wheedle this one into doing som .o thing if I tried long enough"
 You certainly had plenty of time e your hands,
 u q even tried to shame it into going y Loretta chuckled 'T went and got tn ls little clock from my room that cost abo Id half as much, and set it down by t D. new one just to see if it wouldn't n ashamed enough to go.''
 = "It couldn't blush, so all it did vas
 holds it's hands before its face, su e. pose?" asked her brother Its a VIC 1e der you didn't kill it's engine" ne Well, I gave up finally" Lore' r. acknowledged, And I took it back
 the store It seems I hadn't been ve careful when I oiled it. so they would