Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-28

Flows the new school coming?" they inquired as the Wednesday club ruStled into place around the luncheon table.
 "Its not coming, exactly" Marjorie answered bris1ly. "In fact, there are days when it seems to be going. But I've reached a point where I'm numb to all emotion about it. For the first few months murdered mason regularly the first thing after breakfast, did away with three plasterers before lunch, and laid out the architect and contractor during the afternoon. lost my temper seven times day. had nervous indigestion when the pump broke in the basement, and the week the carpenters struck lost no less than seven pounds.
 But that's ali over now. A brick layer sWore at me the other day, and never turned hair. He was q great exception, anyway. Most of 'em like me. call them Bill and John and Andy, and they call me she. Get busy and clean out this reont I heard the boss earpen- ter say to one of his men. She says there's going to- be forty kids in here this afterheen--and what she says goes ? never felt more complimented in my life.
 And I'm learning new things every Hngis day. Yesterday discovered what a deadly insult it is to call a steamftter plumber" "Just what is your official title on the school board, Marjorie?" somebody asked Officially, I'm clerk, but you spell il G o A q. There are three of us. But the other two, being men, go to town every day. They do the big important l part-letting contracts and such things check up on details, act as receiving bureau for complaints from parents 1 teachers and children, superintend epi. denies of measles and diphtheria, and discipline my best friends children when they're suspended from school. Oh, it's | gay life"
 Somebody said onee," Kate remem. bersd "that the ideal committee is com peee1 of three people, two of whom are sick in bed'.'
 Well, Peter and Jimmy aren't sick fir bed. Far from 1t! Believe me-they keer the telephone wires hot with suggestions But it takes 50 long to get action on any.
 thing! You know how a freight trair starte-a series of jolts, all along tn, line? That's the way on this new build ] ing. The boys bump me. I bump tht architect. He joits the contractor. H, | shoves the boss. He jounces the work HaR-aad 50 something gets done, o l doesn't get done. depending on how tn, workman happens to fell about it at tn, time. f
 "Hewever. it is going to be a corkin, school. And while we're on the subject
 wish you girls would spread the glat ttdings abroad that any parents, rela | tives and friends of school children wh have old vases. statuary or pictures the,
 would like to get rid of will please no donate them to the new school. Tell 'en
 I'm sef-appointed committee of one t burn or smash all such contributions Il
 the back yarii"
 You're so strenuous, MaEjer4er" pro
 tested Sallie Kendall.
 You'll get yourself disliked," warue Stella Van.
 'I am disliked," Marjorie rejoine
 cheerfully, 'sby ever so many people. Bu should worry. One of the steamf1tter
 Is devoted to me. He follows me al
 around the building like a lost pupps
 and this morning he told me the sntir
 story of his life while was superintend
 ing the bonfire. His wife has had seve operations" '"RonaFe?" asked Carrie, ''what di you buFn?"
 si "old maps. broken statuary, detunc
 text books; but chiefly pictures. Pix II lures of Abraham Lincoln, Whittie.
 Lowell. LengfeIiow and Walt Whitman
 Girls, I've decided why beaver has bee
 such a popular game. It's the final dil integration of the American inteHec begun in childhood by perpetualIy gazin on the portraits of bearded poets an 7 statesmen Remarkably hemely mel 3 most of them, too,'
 Great and good men, suggested Ca, , rie-but Marjorie was fairly started. an
 there was no stopping her. . And statuaryr' she walled. "Ths horrible dying lion! It poisoned m whole childhood. used to dream of 3 at night. smashed the lion with a hrie $ this moFning-and tried to give ths 3 classical group of the snake stFangiin 3 those three men to the janitor-but F wouldn't take it,"