Norwich bulletin., 1922-09-01
WASTED BAIT.

T had the 1oveliest visit today with my old friend, Alberta Peech, began the young woman who would have looked her years if she had been caught with her hair brushed back off her forehead. Alberta is so happy r
 .Is she?'' politely asked the serious young man who was good catch and didn't know it. That is nicer,
 'sYes. isn't it !' g1rgled the young wem- an. You, and always seem to agree on most things-have you noticed it, Mir, Bangle? Alberta has at last met the right man and is engaged to be married this winter!''
 Well, well P the serious young man murmured. sThat's fne!'
 Isn't 1t" agreed his hostess. "But any really thoughtful perscn feels, am sure, just as ycu and do. that a happy marriage always is a. fine thing. Of course when girl is as attractive and popular as Albekta she takes it as matter of course, and I fear she really does not appreciate Horace. I expect 1t is be- cause I am naturally serious minded that am able to realize a person s fine points | did you know was a great reader of character2 For instance, the minute I met you, MT. Bangle. could tell the sort
 of man you were!' !''
 "oh, come now!" said the serious l young man, somewhat embarrassed at be- 1 ing dragged into such prominence.
 Yes could" said the young woman | who was not so young. archly noddins her head at him "I felt immediately that
 you were a man of power and mental brillfance and that beneath 1t all you
 were extremely tender hearted and af. fectionate! Home loving you know-tht sort of man who would make woman's
 life happy and-and everything Really
 wasn't right? Aren't you awfully do
 mestic in your tastes, MT. Bangle?"
 "Why-why," stammered the seriou. T young man, considerably fiustered q
 don't know. Miss Clutch! You see, have boarded 50 long-'
 I You poor child !" sympathized tn, young woman. T can just imagine how it is-you go home to cold. dismal room ,l and have soggy things to eat and "O41, really, no!' protested the seriou young man. T have a most comfortabl suite in the Zackus hotel and the tabl they set is considered-'
 "Oh, is it?" almost snapped the younl
 woman. T expect when man ha boarded so many years he actuall | doesn't know whether food is good o not often think, when our cook is ou | and I am broiling a thick. juicy stea, with chopped chives' on it and maxim < puffy French fried potatoes and creaT lemon pie that people who live in hotei . are just to be pitied-"
 T haven't had a good lemon pie fo
 centuries" the serious young man saf 3 with some interest '.And how I did wad 3 into French fried when mother made lem
 didn't know that you could cook, Mis
 Clutch r'
 sI Well, you are invited right now t
 come to dinner tomorrow night" tn
 not-so-young woman informed him. sti
 more archly. Its time you learned wha good cook can dol The idea! How yo have stood your life all these years is g mystery to me-
 : Why. I've got along very comfort T ably" he told her. I've been so busy 8 haven't really noticed-'
 l. Well, there are other things in If + than business and you should realize th : facti" she scoIded him. regarding hir
 with mock severity You just need f
 be taken in hand! Wasting all thes
 years when you might have been con
 fortable in your own home iNAead ( i. floating around the world as you hay ,t done! I expect you're a. woman hater- V that's the secret. isn't it?"
 Dear me, no !" the serious young ma