Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-07-21
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 advertisement in the DEMOCRAT. As usual it had the desired effect. A woman called in the neighborhood in search of the rent. There are no numbers on the houses there and she found it necessary to inquire of the neighbors where the house advertised for rent was situated. The party she met happened to have rooms to rent and knowing what the stranger was after took her into her own apartments and closed the bargain in a short time. The man who paid for the advertisement heard of the trick and naturally enough is quite indignant over the affair. But the woman who profted by the advertisement and paid nothing for it is quite happy and evidently believes that in securing a tenant for her unoccupied rooms she has not ex- ceeded her rights.
 THERE is a good deal of talk going around among factory hands on the atti- tude of the foremen in some of the fac tories in relation to the manner of dealing out work among the employees As most of those who are said to he suffering from this petty business are women it cannot be charged that they are idlers or inferior workers. In fact it is sad that no such excuse is offered and it seems to be getting down to a point where the girls are laid of and others put in their places without any explanation whatever. The fact that all those whose services the bosses find it convenient to dispense with belong to one particular creed gives strength to the statement that a vigorous, but quietly or ganized movement is at work for the sole purpose of dispossessing as many as possi- ble of those people from their positions. It is hard for honest minds to believe that such a state of things could exist in a city like Waterbury, with its numerous mag niicent temples of worship and its great army f worshippers of him through whose infinite mercy we all hope to be admitted to the beatifc vision. Every prominent churchman in the city who has expressed an opinion on this business of singling out people for opposition on account of their faith has pronounced against it, in language which the dullest intellect conld no fail to understand, and yet notwithstanding all this. it seems that the nefarious work is being silently. but very effectively carried out. There is no place where the work can be carried on to | better adva ntage than in the factories, where for some reason or other quite a good many interruptions men have suc- ceeded in getting control over people who are infinitely superior to the bigots under whom they are employed. There are a thousand and one ways for the foreman of a room to carry out his designs of getting people out of their jobs, without his real purpose being known to the heads of the concern. As soon as his unmanly dealings with the help are discovered he is gener- ally discharged, but before this takes place the amount of injustice he does to inno- | cent people is astonishing. Concerns, too, | suffer severely on account of such work for the man who tries to run department with his own personal friends. too often | enders almost useless some of the best I help in the room in order to freeze them out to the end that they may be replaced by others no matter what the qualification of the new conner may be. The man who discharges an employe because she does not belong to his church or gives to one of his own friends the work that by right be longs to another person and the professes | to be christian and a chul chman must have qaite an elastic conscience.
 THEY were three old fellows. Perhaps they won't like to be called old, but al least they are no longer boys. They stood on the street corner the other day | talking politics and the weather, and sin gularly enough, none of them found faul with the heat and humidity. One of tht number. a fat fellow with baby face. said he liked warm weather best, and the other. agreed with him. that they did, too Then one of the number said that thos, things were fixed by the montt of birth and he'd warrant that al three had been born in the summer months. Upon this it developed that al | three of them were born in August anC then the latter again ventured the sag, remark that he had heard from those versed in astrology tha. the people born iu the month of August were the very bes fellows that there are. and upon that the three old fellows shook hands all around like a lot of school boys and went thei own way satisfied that three of August own children had been talking together that day. And yet when We see thre, men talking together seriously we are ap to think that it is a matter of great con cern that they are discussing. when it may be the sheerest nonsense. Men can tall nonsense as we'll as women, when you come right down to facts.
 "You'RE n remarkable woman to be abl, to keep your bills paid up these dul times" said n grocer to one of his custo mers the other day as she entered hi place of business and requested him tC make up her account. ''Oh," she said you need not thank me for tat. have good husband who. although he does mol earn much wages. manages to furnish m, with enough money to meet all our bills When married Linn all the girls in tn, shop thought I was foolish to trust my future with a man who worked out doors and said they would rather live single al their lives than marry man who could not give them better living than 1 evei could hope to have with the man whom had chosen. We'll. they kept their worG and l kept my promise and as you know } yourself never had any reason to regre it. Not so with my old shopmates. Some of them Dlarried mer who were reputed tC be we'll of. but they found out after while tEat they did not get all that the, aimed at. Others are in the market ye and are likely 10 be for some time to come Others got husbands who were supposed tc have fancy jobs and good wages. But 1T most cases these hopes were doomed tc defeat. As soon as the dull season set ir it found them without dollar ahead and when they were laid off in the shops as good many have been during the past few years, those men would walk the street, from the beginning to the end of the yeai before they would take pick or shovel ir their hands to earn a living. The result is that the wives of such men are ashamed to show their faces on the street. They owe house rent, meat and grocery bills and they haventa decent stitch of clothes on their backs. ''There," she said, a. she handed the grocer a ten dollar bill "iake your pay out of that, and now don't owe "A dollar to anyone in the world I tell you. when my girls grow up the fel low who wants one of them had better cal without his high standing collar and long cuffs" Just as she was making her exit { saucy looking little miss who was listening to the woman's remarks blurted out to tho groceryman. "that one's mad because sht could not catch a dude" The woman evi dently overheard the remark and sent thii parting shot back from the sidewalk. '.Th, half of the dandies thnt's going noHnfaY,