Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-05

The Wednesday club had finished th' fruit cocktail when Marjorie Davis slip ped into the vacant chair and smile, apologetieally at her hostess.
 You're fifteen minutes late, my dear that lady announced with the freedom of lifelong friend. You'll be fined 2, cents and go without your dessert. This club meets at 1.30, and I wouldn't keer cheese souffle waiting for any woman living"
 There's no such thing as positive time," said Marjorie, dreaningly. Its only relative-like notion
 Don't you feel well, Mariorie?'' so- licitously inquired Carrie Burke.
 Pay no attention to her, Carrie" ad ] yised Stella Van Smelt. She has these unbalanced times, but she comes to her self again if you let her alone"
 tits that Einstein book, told her no good would come of her reading it." the hostess declared. 'It's an unstable and upsetting philosophy
 well, I don't know about motion" said Mrs. Jim Pratt decidedly. Tt may be relative, as you say. But If there isn't such a thing as positive time there ought | to be. Just try going without it for | whole day, the day our family did when Ys stopped saving daylight on the last Sunday in October and see how you like it."
 ''That didn't bother us a bit,' said Carrie Burke. i've just stopped the clock for an hour and started it again. "Very simple and efficient. But it didn't work out that way with us. Our intentions were good, but we had too many helpers. Jim and I came home at 10 o'clock that Saturday night, set the hall clock and his watch back an hour and went to bed congratulating ourselves on sixty minutes of extra sleep. Then my brother, Herbert, slip ped in at 12, remembered about the change in time and set it back anoth- CT hour. Some time in the early morn ing Katy let herself in at the back door and found that her alarm clock in the kitchen had run down. She had the new schedule on her mind, too, so she turned the hall clock back another hour and set the alarm clock by it."
 The Wednesday club looked skeptical
 "Didnt you notice that 1t was two hours slower than anything else, then :? asked Carrie Burke.
 "She had been out with her young man, and at such times the hours art said to pass swiftly.
 "The next morning was dark ana cloudy, but nothing could keep Jim Pfat from his Sunday golf. He hoped ou of bed at 6 o'clock and got himself a little breakfast. As he was leaving he noticed that the hall clock was twt hours behind his watch, Now Jimt
 watch has never gained or lost fvt minutes since his father gave it to
 him, so he knew it was all right HI turned the clock ahead two hours ant
 pinned a note on it that said, "Thi clock is running slow I must hav
 broken it when I turned it back bu
 he neglected to mention the fact that h had just turned it ahead.
 Herbert had planned to meet the Par
 kins boy at and go over west for day of fishing. His watch was out o e6mmission-it always is-but he go up soon after Jim left and went dow !. to look at the clock. He found Jim fi6te, realized that his efforts on tn clocks behalf the previous evening ha been superhuous and set it ahead an . other hour to correct his mistake. The he. thought he was going to be late fo his engagement and rushed off for hi , hike without any breakfast, taking Jim note with him.
 l 'sKaEy then arrived on the scene wit