Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, June 9, 1919, Page 8

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where Robert Hew- itt, the salesmanager,, sat, his morning mail m a2 neat plle before him, he moid‘ command a view. of" the spacious outer room, where a score of girls sat poumding at their machines, all part of the perfect machine of the Company. He Burlington Products stared moodity for a few moments at the brightest and prettiest of ' them, whose every vear of her twenty, bad'but served to enhance her natural lovelie- Pess, and bring eut the color and ewrves of her oval face and trim figure. As if sensing his stare, she looked up, then and hurried into fumped to er fest, 1 by bad to in ctory letter for her dicta she surgrise. finish of which locked ¢ admiring smile 1o vou get all that pep in the lara?” he asked, still emiling never get my eves open untif 127 “Indeed, T Mr. Hewitt,” she answered, laughing merrily. “T ought to be 2 wreck. Three dances this week or 1:30 rach T've had wonderf: oW, and not a wink nntit 1 times iy PRI emyne that sort of thigg ‘3o much?” he asked,’ regarding hex quizeically. “Yes™ she admitted, ber eyes faivly dancing. "1 love & There's 2 wonder- ful orchestra down-at the Criterion. We had, a lovely time there last night Mr. Parkins—yeu know—the ope in. the ad- vertising depariment—he . was with us fast night. He can say soch.cewer things. He's 3 regutar show himse!t™ Hewitt winced and Jooked away. “Nes, T guess 30.” he replied. absently. *1 wizh T could damee and say orwginal an old bear—an office drudze—a no- body.” “Ob. don cay thay” ham, gently Everybody And yon are reafly clever” “look here,. Clara.” he blurted out “I'm getfing stale. And there's no rea- son for it. I'm stll on the sunny side Y need a little change. How'd vou like to g0 ic 2 show—with me—to- night 2 “I—T'm sorry.” the ancwered. regret- fally, dropping her eves. “F--1 have an engagement already—ith Mr. Parkine We're gotug to 2 new cabaret.” Hewitt was silent for seweral minutes, so Clara rose from her chair, and, mak ing some remark 2hout “Marbe some she reproved Tikes you. of thirty lways Suff1c1ent e ROM his office desk, "Do mfihm and wit,.and all ether time” with 2 hugh, withdrew to the outer office. That langh grated on his ears, inno- ecent though it wag and as' the snowball gathers saow as it [rolls, the more Clarz's taughjechoed through his mind, the more sinister it secmed 1o become. Launghing atthim, was she. he bitterly mused. No wonder!* So Parkins was a regular show, eh? , That was what went with the.wemen,jeh?” Well, she had dvogped-aiword toatlre, wise. - He was . the twisefone. . He'd start. out—to- night—and learn; this' social game from -things and be 2 socia! ian. But I'm justrstem to stern..” He'd § master it—just then, his musings , were Jisterbed by a call from theipsesident’s office. With all the thoroughness of his vitile nature, Hewitt plunged into the whiripool of pleasure. He apprenticed Yimeelf to 3 famaos dancing instructor, andsworked havd and “late umtil he gain- ed the curt praise of “Monsicur is bet- taire—more graeeful” During his spare hours, he laid 3side. salesmen’s re- ports and “last words in. the psychology of seliing” for the current dry-fairy lit- erature of the day. . Aod, gritting his testh determinedly, he'learned the ropes of the cabaret, where 't go and what to do. Then came the rude: awakenimg, for, one morning, he:faced the presi- dent's frate conntenance, and heard fam that beat upon his brain Fke trip hammers. “We're going under, Hewitt,' he said, in a steely tone. “Something’s wrong We've got to pull oursclves together in a month or we'l all be lookifg for jode It lays between vour office and the ad- vertising end. Tighten up, man. A word to the wise. That's all. The news of the impending calamity spread Yke wildfire, caumsing genera! alarm. An hour later, as Hewitt fin- ished several smarting letters to his road men, his door opened and Chra Dem- ing came over and stood beside his desk. “Mr. Hewitt.” she began tremulons- ty. *Is it troe—we're In 2 tight phace? The girls are worrred—so am 1.7 Hewitt nodded his bead gloomily. “Then, I have sornething to say %o you,” she continued, and her tane seem- ed more vibrant in %s quietness. “The gitls wani me to appeal to you. They think the tronble lies in this depart- ment.” Hewitt started to exclaim angrily, but she put out 2 restraining hand. *Wait,” she pleaded, and Hewitt wajt- ed. “T mean no msnit. But veu ssem to be losing mterest, Mr. Hewitt, lately. You're looking a fittle worn, tes. It's such 2 eontrast to what vou were. But we know veu're the man to pull us through. Think—Mr. Hm'vttv-xf means a loss of position tn every girl out there. And we—need the money ’ to Parkins?” with a trace You g . petulantly, “He's dever. Why not de m 2" “Not at this time,” answered the 2 smply. “He’s very good in his place, but he's not the man fof anything per- manent. And you are.” Hewitt looked up sharply, then he rose to his feet and placed a respectful, yet firm, hand on the girl's shoulder "Thank you ame his brief answer “Clara, T7i'do my hest. Count on that.” They shook hands. For seme time he stared at the door through which she had left, then he bronght his fist down npon - his open palm - resoundingly and. snapping his jaws togeth plumped Mmself at his desk and was soon lost in a mass of papers For three wecks he human gristmill. Salesmen cowered un- der his whiplash, and went out still dumbfounded, but with determination in their hearts to “sell stuff or die.” New ideas, new methods kept him plodding long after the last man and woman had left the plant, and it was ne uncommon sight to sec t kept at it Fike a scrithwoman; teiling at midnight, give him a wide berth as he k to filing-cabinet, then ¢-cabinet to desk. The clouds of doult soon started to dissolve, one hte- ‘afternoon, as the pres t passed through his office, he paused at the voung . manager’s desk and smiling Iy extended his hand. “Go ou:poor slave,” cfficial, kindly, “and rake a week's rest Then come hack and see me. pulled us out of a tigh haven't overlooked it, either.” Hewitt, out of his tired . eye: 3t him unsees bat the president nnh cm ied :rd went ont. How long Hewitt sat there, his chin cupped m his hands, he didn't know, but he seased someone at his side and look=d up to find Clara, smiling and fresh-looking as ever. “T—we—want to thank you, 3 it!" she stammered blashingly I we're so grateful to you, Everybody Why don't you take now > Hewitt stared ‘at her 2 moment, woke up, "By George, yon're right” he excl ed. “Er—wonid vou like to go with m- tonight—te a dance ™ “To 2 dance? she echoed, astomched and me, You've Je and 1 some recrea then t* b “1 went out and fore that. straip The zirl frowned “Oh—bother Mr. Parki ped, with a little heat an; g better than he. You're perma- rent—he's only a makesmift.” Hewitt stared at her in astoni and che dropped her eyes and colored the roots of her hair. Then he jumped to his feet, and. puiting hishand under her chin, raised her face until her beautifal eves met his. “Do you mean that? to he asked hoarsa She nodded her frad. “Three weeks ago vou said something ut that ‘permanent’ business,” h= id, cagerly. “Now, you say it agam. (Clara, do you think vou could stand me permanentty—as 2 husband? T can dancs now, and—" “Oh, bother dancing,” she cried, im- patiently, but the soft light in her eves wiped out completely the sting of her words, and a minute later, her watm fips pressed close to told him—that 2 word to the wise—is not always: suffi- " crent. LEANOR hurst into the howse with 2 lightness and buoy- aney unlike her lag And then when she ame into the house that Saturday afternoon. “Ev- erviising ready, dear,” she caibed. “1 didn't get around to the voile dress Here was she, yommg and exuberant with only 2 couple of years' work be- hirtd her, while motirer had been at the same old job of housekeeping for neariv Dr. Roberts was over as quickly as his brand new machine (vet uneamned) would permit. much to Mrs. Myles meet new people azafn * and she hiusked out of jor. came ont. Roberts was saill waitemg when coming home along the roads as the sun wa astonishment and protestations. But Elraner “Oh,” exclaimed the girL “that's won- kills, he d very gentl ging steps of the I'm sorry, Eleanor, but—" 30 vears, with but few respites in be- He took ent his brand new statho- Pm goinz t» b kind of you—" f vou--—giv last few week< Tt “Oh, dear, and I wanted it <. e tween It had scesned to Eleanor that: scope from an By new hag, fistened garet's. - Apd, e smiled a little wistfully, sure you* sremed almost too swch 3 dainty thing, and—" another week at the office would have to the beating of her heart and ques- a couple of ho the thought, “I'm mot =0 busy vet that : wonderful to he Thew Eleanor goted the iired lmes in driven her mad, it 30 pears! tioned with afl the assurance of a mew the stores close e means doliars and cents to me. true | Her employer Ber mother’s face, noted the ‘Can’t I =l in Dr. Ryan, just te be man juet out of 2 graa: medica 1. moner on a new outh -and he threw up his hands had gwe ier an unexpected vacabon of the slender <houl sure:” she picaded At fast, “It’s jnst sheer house-weari “Good ! excl i physi herror—“this isn't the tired } w f pay. “Take off a couple of of wearimass i the pa “T den’t need 2 doctor. Dr n he said. “There isn’t a thing or- cfan, “and mayn't I take to tewn woman who looked o house weary 3 a downright 3 he had told ber. “You've worked “Tired, mother?” Ryan has gone away. His wi | wrong. Now ii vou could only 2 short hour ago? Why, she looks al nh\«' ections. *Do hard and faithfully on these govern “No. dear, 1 am all nght” aft what with the get anway for say even a week—" prote i Miles was as radiant and lovely as her 4 coniassed, “Pve heen ment contracts and von've earned the It had been that way for months ippe and pneumonia “Tust like thoee new doctors”: Mre sked into the and before she Eleanor eaught lenging for the moment when I eould Elearor thought, Her mother al g Myles thought to herself. “Tt's all very t Eleanor her an meat and smiled. say, ‘Two leanor had telephoned home v tired these days. She seemed 10 physician just settled well to sav ‘go away,” but where's the ming new “And she's. go: ke the 3‘(4\1'r» my s I hate to both- have lost intercst in everything and was wander if he's any good.” money coming from*for a vacation, and d gloves, and or Aunt Margaret's. Dor lonely at the t & but would y wst 30 uniike her old bri poy self. She ngled 10 is going to take care of the house - d- test now. It's bean mght,” and 1 in the three weeks T'yve heen here, aua > % coupbe of waicts for had refused to see eir old family W “That's jnst the thing 1or ex mir they're all nicely baked in the ovén, and if vou would 3 in to have soma of and ilr dress, and just physician, Dr. Ryan, faring that c<he Bt 2 new doc @ ‘Mother rre g puff, ial of per- 1 manage beautifuily, really.” haked b give my blue st a wee pressing? Mr w the family, ideas Sunmymead yonracii ! I My daughtar is very high-handed, Roherts and successfn! P rives me acation and I'r 1 the wav of families since than ake of stood off and surveved herseli in doctor,” the good lady protested, “but now, but he aiways declared S Mea ed i ] time immemarial, p sat hack and was the Jomg mi Vhy—why, 1 she means wall” that if his wife hadn’t brought him. his selieve T d <tand dié nothing d alied loak reall do 17" she gasped 1~ The ride to Aunt Margaret's was not patient there’s no teling where &a o A rusl: here But today Fléanor's heart smote her. the 'phone. I never expected to look ke that se very long, so the kindly young Dr. would have ended s That me; an ear of wheat will smother them, those in front be in fat or buuer anéd H g'f that the steamer! “Men have to plow and {ing burned by millions, and those in' Almost every animal devours sort of white el- f ground, for the locusts: even cameis appear to .like re | the rear pushing on and passing over | and | the hurned boddies of the leaders. eggs from ; will block and fill up a slugsg em & i'y@k stream, and the millions r will pass over unharmed. The government sends troons in the defense, for it means ruin & starvation to thousands of people. sides heavy money los: trenches are dug and the nymphs fall in. and when three-fourths full kero- They Afri- | in the em as \uud" Mszrgan ,whe? New York Por \.ub tel was to go Alnermzn rehase: Mayor OCEAN FL)GHT ENTRIEQ TO MAKE TRIAL FLIGHTS Johns, June 13.—Both the Vick- ers-Vimy and Handley-Page entries in tiie London Daily Mail’s $50,000 trane- Atlantic flight competition may make trial flishts tomorrow, o b compo © nymphs| I 1 | wl out|sene oil is poured on them and they R d ’.ULI‘:\ | flxh hand of | ar t afire,dor elhse fiarth in thrown on | FRENCH AVIATOR HAS - down to|man o The one to a dupth of about tiwo feet. 1 ihe lead, and the can crawl out of the earth if ASCENDED 31,168 FEET swarms mar a curious Paris, June $.—The French aviator, sale, yeslerday estabe orld’s record for height. feet . like only covered with a few inches, but when deeply covered they smother to death. 3 1 new ible that 12 so The young locusts are most destrue- | ended 9,300 metres (31,168 feé ! 1 tive, selecting the choicest vegetables 1% Was the ‘"'j‘d" of the previous ree- g : b »;-0 amount or iender shoots and green leaves. It; or ,000 feat. kgt The committee has already reported and modern ferrvboat. | fakes iweelis ffontheniito denelop o : Jind in s T it had | e i an ‘gk;, t!m;:i‘[ Vo Eh‘,kthn\m),\h into a m_l(l{I 1zed Editer's Joke. At anc i z o as aged as the Colonel Led- ut they increase rapidly in| " % ¢ i all the money and one can almost gee their| A Dudding author sent s her-em e i ¢ | whit better for “ferry and wings develop. ous paragraph to the editor of a dally “Saint John the -Baptist is.spoken waper. Not finding it printed withim court . of i - of as having lived on locusts ‘and! 5 ~eag i has | T e wild honey, IFrom the earliest time vd}t::il,'a:k fime o h;afing coem. (N8 hoar i ction. the tribes that dwelt on or near the| Clitorial department. he wrote te tn- Should the time come that military | % g will have a visitation of| great deserts of Persiafl Arabia, and| 4uire abemt it. “I sent veu a- joke ne a par urwn he;rj;lfls (:;5[ ear locusts this year. Fortunately Africa have eaten dri flddlocuzm as food, ‘ about ten deys age. 1 have hesvd aceom it wiil not| @ i1l prob- | the” plague will not be 2 s and they will keep on deing so-as‘lons | 2 e 2 § ¢ i a The police com- | scribed in the following commu Tabe eat the flesh of locusts when | Should be giad to hear whether you or m_mu that caused the charges to be|tion to the National Geographic Soe killed by themselves, but - refrain if| bave seen it.” The eoditor's reply was preferred re held a hearing on|ety: their death has.been caused by cold ' ag fellows: “Your joke = iyed sife 2 thats o acting as -prose- | “It s ‘impossible Zor’ any..ene . that or the hand of an infidel,,as they are | ST 3 b e dr 2 i 0 and found | has not seen a piague of locusts to then considered impure. Locusts are | Pefo the present we have et - same footing against thc- accused and so reporied | realize their size and numbers and eaten after the legs, wings and heads 25.€ w York department to the counecil. At the hearing he-|the horrors of living for wesks at a have been picked off. 5 ' | 2t body the present week, the ! time In a _country where locusts fly I el el er O Norsuten WP aps the police managers doj ony at the former hearing was |into your face, enter your house, and and . prepared. with native wheat.: Tf | e i3 too often but'a: tervid ) tae high standard in ln t allowed to be submitted. and t%e | even drop into your food. dried in the sun they are ground to [expectation of favers to come. J - nm;u _york s {membecs or a majority of them are| “A south wind blew, and the locusts p ) N sondon | sayron ,raad io accept the report and dis-|came. They were probably the same P e 7 Bea a o valtiation bfvreal estite An‘.xSf' the policeman, without hearing | sort as the days of Pharaoh and P i o increase in the rate As at|the plague. At first fhey came in k Hi ,’1,‘5‘:”7 d»}"a, 8 not deter ti mmit- { small swarms. Men, women, and t with the other members of the|children were impressed to help hattle er’ man_ than in judgment, urging the ac- |against this terrible, foe, for wherever o it is with the ceptance of the report. the Mcusts alight nothing green re- committee in compari- o Considerable missionary work has|mains when they pass on. There's Great i - | been. done ‘and the Tah »| “The fertile plain, rich vineyards, The = AEha oring ot the council Mon- | ooy Sone 20d the “commIssloneTs” | and verdure are i a few hours tarned | gy of the department while ordinance was [is to bo another act in the farce. ¢ |into a barren desert, with only stumps ' ISf deals every man on | creasing the the case is already prejodged. wmotn. |and tree trunks with the leaves gons 1 On the force and then srunts becsuse | the pol 7 valuable ‘member will ‘be dropped |and, {he bark all oft. X 2 he discipli s t = o o e s Yna. “It was a curious sight to see hun- M. Ege 58 "loo" s notis from the force withont any real jus- | It WS & chrlous gkt 1o ses hun: in kr\ownr\ the child- on the in New London and the that they are persecutors or even | OVerseas, and even wealthy French mupposed responsible heads must be ordinance | ors. but as matter of fact|l2nd-owners themselves, and = semi- Pens heal a]\d ens-= us pi able as putty to stand in with | wa: enting vote |t devoted more time to the | Naked Arab children walking abreast o e Trme ahowing that. thare mea. ag Shey | they have devoted more. time to the | TS Are) chliren, Taling abveast m:en't are beind “Pve got a politician's job,” was the nship in the ail other departmental work combin- | 1€ 2N old wooden pail an empty box, attshans of "Goorge 9 Bisenns the | creases:” ‘¥t 1y wout the |'ed. *They started oat to et Ciea.|® vegetable can, or a drum.and blow- fOf' when ou g’ . & ordinance to provide 5~ . ing a tin trumpet or twirling a police- y Bunday afternoon at the raitwayi beriih maugh and are out to -win. They| 'S i Each person or, child | etation, presumably when telling | ‘a0 "the city work | QUERE to be proud of the accomplish- | TINE%in "y furrow to himselt, and the | riend from some other place of his{poor, ¢ e waon ToE imeat. e Poning mte Seint Ve locauls Fore lucky sirike in New London. This|or the honor there is in i St raanedy iz the gentleman who landed the job of superintendent of the New Lon- gdon-Groion ferry line, in direct eharge of the operation of the steam- Ch11dren "ry' FOR FLETCHER’S CASTORIA They de not even receive general credit for what ther do, and some on the outside Kick because members of the police and fire committee style themselves as commissioners and buy for themselves with city coin badges which they claim as private property and take with them when they retire from office. Some even begrudge *these as souvenirs. badges of members of the police force and fire department are also The | The ferryboat Nemantic, of Long Tsland, that was leased for the New Londen-Graton run for four months while the newly purchased Hale was off the line for repai finally been returned to the owners. It is sald the charter price was $40 a day, which added to the cost of Nathan Hale and repairs to the same, makes the Hale a costly craft to the city of New London and after all she's an old craft. Still the com- misgioners say it was a saving to settling. Frequently the owners of the plantations build fires and make them smoke to keep away the swarms tof locusts. in the afternoon, nothing can dr hem off. They swing the followi morninz. shortly after sunrise, uniess the time has arrived for the locust to lay her ezes. “The female excavate holes earth two and three inches deep. to sixty-eight eggs, enveloped in female “When the locusts have alighted late | in the! in | Premier Delacroux, Prims -Min- ister of Balgrum, ~whdo s msfls some interesting stetements. 2275 1wt Balgiam wjflfbecm to retremch drasically inexpendl- ures beeaaze of the;pesce ierms | Premier Delswroux stated thetiziide | from the $596,000.000 gramnted Bwl- | gizm. she wonlid.receive avcthing at the present time and the country { was without resourses.

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