Norwich bulletin., 1921-09-12
4 Country Girl Visits the City.
Norwich.

Dear Uncle Jed: A girl like Jane who ! has always lived in the country just outside a quiet little village, meets with many puzzlins and Humorous experi- enees when she comes to such hust- ling, bustlinS city as Boston.
 In the country she could walk leis- urely along the sidewalks of the village chat as long as she wished with the proprietors of the little stores, examine atl the new goods in those stores, and then walk out. wishing the proprietor good morning or a good afternoon. Then she would stroll home, meeting either a farmer driving to "town,r to carry his butter and eggs and get his grain, or perhaps a stray COW which had, in her attempt to reach a tempting bit of clover broken down the fence and wandered out into the road.
 In the city she found things were very different. When she went down town shopping, she was jostled and hus- tied along by the hurrying crowd, Which sped along as if their lives de- pended on their getting to a certain place at certain time. She eraned her neck, looking at the lofty sign boards and strained her eyes gazing at the beautiful and costly hats and gowns 1 Tn the store windows
 One day she desired to see a dentist whose room number was sixty-six in | the Central Exchange building oa the first floor a gTinning negro boy neered 1 out at her from sort of cage. which 1 she recognized as one of those elevators l which l had told her about He in l quired in his deep voice: Going up" 1 She said nothing but began climbing l the first flight of stairs. After staring i at all the rooms on this floor, she climb
 ed the next long flight of stairs and wandered over the third floor still gag | ing at the numbers over the doors But 1 alas! The numbers were all mixed up and, try hard as she could, she was
 not able to find the room she wanted
 Reluctantly, she trudged down the three flights of stairs to the first floor. There ! she saw the negro boy still peering out
 from his cage and t1lfs time she asked
 him if he would please tell her where
 room sixty-six was. He said: 'Why.
 yes, l could have told you that long
 ago" He asked her to step into the
 elevator, which she did, mechanically | although the shivers were still playing tag up and down her back. He banged Che door together and up they went. With a jolt, they stopped at the sec- ond floor, but her stomach had dronped to the first. Then up they went again with another jolt; and with the feel | tng that she had lost some other part of her anatomy, they arrived at the third floor. Then the elevator boy pointed out the room which she had been looking for.
 She got out of this building by means of the stairs. The next pace which she visited was the moving picture show en Fremont street. At home she had often attended entertainments for the benefit of the church or some other
 worthy organization and when she saw
 the ushers neatly clad in uniforms she
 nudged an acquaintance nearby and
 asked her If the show was for the
 benefit of the Salvation Army. She said
 eNo," with twinkle in her eye that
 told Jane that she was laughing at
 her. So she said no more. She saw
 the pictures through and enjoyed them
 very much.
 Jane's next trouble was in crossfns
 the street. Oh. how she dreaded to
 cross that busy thoroughfare when cars, automobiles and bicycles were
 passing in rapfd succession. But with her heart in her mouth she picked ur
 her skirts and ran as fast as she could
 and finally got safely across. With a
 breath of relief, she turned around and
 saw me walking slowly across. She go,
 really provoked because I did not hur- " when an automobile was almost up on me. Tt is remarkable how city peo- l ple manage to get across the street fl t a walk without getting killed" Jant } said to me when I reached her. When she was ready to go home, sh, , got beside one of those black and whit, ] posts and began waving her handker chief frantically at a car. But she wa 5 On the wrone side of the street-a fac I which she did not know, and the con
 ductor paid no heed whatsoever to her
 The car whizzed by, leaving 2 swirlin, 1 cloud of dust to settle on her mois
 and excited face. She trudged alnaos
 all the way home, cursing conductors a l l every step.
 ,, She is gradually getting accustome, e to city life and she hopes that at th