Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-11-24
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| three persons 70 pass eacn other. "A young man accompanied by a fashionably | dressed lady was going in the direction of | the opera house and had reached a point
 near the end of the Platt block when they
 met man coming in the opposite airec- | ton. Of course the young man and his
 fair companion thought they were en- titled to the whole walk and moved neither | to the right nor the left. The lonely in-
 dividual did not seem to share this opin-
 ion, but managed to give the couple as
 much space as possible by crowdipg him
 self against the side of the building. But
 this did not suit the fair lady. who evil dently thought that the man should have
 rushed into the middle of the street at | sight of her approach. She seized her
 train, gave her head and shoulders a twist
 that almost electrified her escort and
 blurted out: Gracious me. will some people ever know anything" At this her
 escort stopped and turning to the man
 said: Say. what kind of man are you
 anyway. don't you know enough to let people pass?' The fellow didn't seem to
 be the kind of a man to fool with and | throwing his cigar into the street he said: | "Who the blazes are you and whom or
 what do you take me for. Do you think
 have any right in this town or that must
 step in the mud in order that you and
 your friend might walk side by side on
 this narrow walk? If you knew anything you would have stepped in advance of your friend and then there would be room
 enough for us sll." "I know enough to
 make room for a young lady" said the young man calming down considerably "So do l, retorted the other, ''but don't
 think it necessary to walk in the mud
 when there is lots of room on the sidewalk
 and if a man should judge yourself and
 lady by this incident neither of you is en-
 titled to much courtesy from any gentle
 man." The fellow with the lady in tow
 didn't care to discuss the subject any fur
 ther and with the remark, .'Tn see you
 some other time" himself and his com.
 panion started of towards the opera house while the man wEo was the object of at | tack sauntered onto East Main street During the time the men were talking the girl was as silent as a statue and it was quite evident she was well satisfied that
 her beau escaped without getting a good | thrashing. for the man he encountered was
 just the right person for the business.
 WATERBURY girl who has a mania for
 chewing gum wrote to the editor of one of
 the New York magazines. asking if there
 was any impropriety in her doing so.
 She requested m answer by mail, and said
 she would like to know if the editor could
 judge of her character by her handwriting
 Almost month had elapsed before au an-
 swer came and she had decided that her
 letter had been consigned to the waste
 basket when to her surprise the much de-
 sired answer came. Something must have
 gone wrong with the editor the day it was
 written and he decided to have satisfac. tion out of some one who was not near
 enough 10 the office to pay him a visit.
 He said: Ut is extremely vulgar for a
 young woman to chew gum, and once she is seen at such business no one is obliged
 to offer her the respect due to a woman of
 refined tastes. Your handwriting betrays
 unmistakable evidence of woman of
 irascible temper. and We would not be surprised if you should some day grow
 tired of chewing gum and send us another
 communication asking if it was good form
 for woman to masticate human flesh.
 No book on etiquette contains rules suffi-
 cient to govern the every action of ones life. What the book omits must be SUD-
 piled in the home or by association with some one possessing better knowledge of
 what good form is and how to practice the art than the writer of the letter before us is ever likely to know" The answer was shown to one of the girls friends with a solemn injunction that she should never speak of it. But of course it was too good to keep. If the editor could have heard his correspondent when she read his an- swer he would say he was not far from being right about her temper, for she is said to have called down all sorts of male dictions on his head and declared that she knew he was drunk when he wrote it. She could smell rrm and tobacco of the letter. she said.
 THE fine weather of this week brought out an unusually large number of shoppers and the result must be most gratifying to the different storekeepers in the center At 2:3O o'clock Thursday afternoon it was almost impossible for one to pick one's way through the mage of baby carriages that stood on the sidewalk in Exchange place. There were seventeen push buggies. all loaded, within a space of one hundred feet. While it is but fair 10 assume that each had claimant in some of the differ ent stores yei the fact that the children seemed to be alone prompted bystander to remark that it wouldn't be much bother for someone in the kidnapping business to secure a handsome boy or girl without the slightest chance of detection Anyone who wished might come along and wheel of one of the carriages and onlookers would not know but the person was the rightful owner of the outfit. But the children were all happy. They cooed and laughed at pedestrians, kicked and NAuAShea hhNiA Iitlle uAuuS hI stray sunbeams and pointed exultantly at the gayly attired models in the show windows These with the large number of people seen in the stores evenings furnish un- mistakable evidence that business IS on the mend and that the dark cloud of hun ger and want which had hung over the country for the past two years has dis appeared and that the people are aware of the fact and are willing to forget the past and be happy with the prospect of better | times.
 A MAN engaged in business in the cen | ter says if the court of common council | does not shut down on the granting of li- | censes to conduct business on the public | streets some people who are paying taxes | will soon commence to think that they had | better close their stores and move onto | the sidewalk. He said that the granting of | such privileges was a gross injustice to | people who pay rent sssome of whom can | scarcely get permission to exhibit their | wares in front of their own doors. Sup | pose." he added, "a member of the court | of common council was engaged in the dry | goods or clothing business. what would he | say if man asked permission to sell such | articles on the public streets | What IS the difference in granting a h- cense to some men to sell hats. caps and | shirts in front of restaurant and giving a | man permission to keep a restaurant in front of a clothing store?" Of course they all have the permission of the abutting | property owners. but you can notice that | the people who grant such permission are not engaged in the same line of business as the men who are going to open up in front of their stores. If this thing con- tinues I'm going to get out of the res tsurant business and present a petition to