Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-05-20
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 "HAvE you noticed" remarked a dentist to me yesterday, "that whenever a lady of fashion smiles nowadays, she invariably discloses set of teeth plenti- fully besprinkled with gold filings p It's fact, assure you. But the funny part of it is that many of the filings are wholly unnecessary. It is all the rage among Waterbury women just now to the more prominent the filings the better the women are pleased. The fad has gone to such extremes that never make @ set of false teeth any more, without putting in gold filling or two.
 THE announcement that one fire com- pany has tabled the new rules adopted by the commissioners for the govern ment of tine d. partment, indicates that the men are ill "state of mind" over the abridgement of their liberties and the seemingly unnecessary requirements to be a fireman. As the members of the company referred to have no voice or vote in regard to the rules of the de- partment the action taken was entirely unnecessary, and is of no importance except inasmuch as it will direct public attention to the matter. It seems to be
 
 sioners adopted the obnoxious rules fol purpose, and firemen openly aver that that purpose is to make the volunteer companies chafe under the restrictions eventually lose interest in their work and finally disSand. The commits sioners may have the peoples best inter. ests at heart, but judging from the summary manner in which their recon. mendation to have paid department was disposed of the other evening by the council, the time for the change they desire is not yet. and they should abrogate any of the new rules that may interfere with the efficiency of the volunteer department.
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 FATHER TREANoR could not have meant exactly what he said when he told his people last Sunday that he dl6 family reading. If he did, the 1ne oi demarkation that he draws is obscure Because the papers published the ad vertisement of a quack who, Father Treanor had learned, is engaged in g practice that is contrary to the laws oi God and man, the reverend gentleman at once jumped at the conclusion that the press was to blame for the evil He convicted without giving the ac cused an opportunity for defense, o1 the assumption that the newspaper men. who are accredited with knowing more of the days doings than people il other walks of life, must have heard al least as much as he had, concerning tht ! evil of which he spoke. Right here ii where Father Treanor made a mistake | At least one newspaper man that l know of confesses to having been bliss fully ignorant of the facts which Fathe Treanor supposed we all had in ou possession. The writer may have fel reasonably certain that such a condition of affairs existed here, but no specifi, case had ever come to his knowIedee and the divine precept, Judge not : was a barrier that prevented genera charges from being made in thes, columns.
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 PEOPLE are warned against the al turing free portrait offices of tn, | National Portrait company of Brooklyn One man sent in a coupon with picture, and few days later was asked to send $1.50 to cover the cost of pack ing and shipping. He sent the none, | and received another letter saying thu portrait would be shipped in twenty days. The other day the portrait came It was simply an enlarged tin-type colored by hand, with an inch and half frame.
 HUGH CoYLE, special press represent ative of the Barnum 6 Bailey greatest show on earth, was in town to-day While here he called upon members ot the press and asked their assistance in trying to impress upon the owners anG users of horses the necessity of keeping off the route of the parade on Saturday This is absolutely the only safe course to follow, as horses, unless trained, in. Varlably object to the presence of ele. plants, and when this objection takes place on a street crowded with specta. tors. someone generally gets hurt. MT Coyle suggests that the only safe plan is to have the horses in their stables on that day between the hours of 9:9O and 11:30.