The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-03-02
4 NEEDED REFoRM.

The air is heavy with reform. Able
 editorSand able gentlemen who are not
 editors are demanding the abolition of
 the lobby, purity in elections and a few
 other things which are very desirable
 and which badly need demanding. But
 they are so busy in this noble and use
 full work that they do not notice some of
 the Reforms that are most needed.
 Somebody must notice them if they are
 to be noticed at all, and we therefore
 take it upon ourselves to notice one of them. The other day there was an oc-
 currence in East Haddam which made
 more trouble and more Encouragement
 in that town than the lobby has ever
 done, and 1t is probable that even the
 defects in the constitution have not so
 disturbed the people of East Haddam
 as did the event of which we write
 It appears that last Saturday MT. N. R.
 Stark sold fifteen dozen of doughnuts
 in East Haddam, but did not have
 enough to supply his customers. Happy
 were they who shared in the distribu-
 ton of the fifteen dozen. And miser-
 able they who did not. When the peo-
 pie of East Haddam want doughnuts
 they want them, as is shown by the fact
 that fifteen dozen are not enough to go around. It is pleasing to contemplate
 the good fortune of those who got their
 doughnuts. How they enjoyed them at
 Saturdays "tea" or at the great or
 minor Sunday meal. But 1t is sad to contemplate the disappointment of those who expected doughnuts and were compelled, by the failure of the supply, to gnash their teeth in cake or some- thing else. Picture the thoughtful wife calculating that she will make her home pleasant with some of N. R. Stark's doughnuts As the time draws nigh for the expected coming of N. R. Stark the little boy or girl is sent out to the gate to watch, dish or pail in hand, for the welcome appearance of him. The watcher keeps both eager eyes on the road so as to get the first possible sight of N R. Stark's doughnut chariot and holds both ears erect to catch the first possible sound of N. R. Stark's cheer bringing | bell. The minutes drag wearily on and | N. R. Stark cometh not He has found ! that he has underestimated the capac- 1 ity of his fellow beings for doughnuts | and has gone sadly home filled with | gloomy thoughts of what might have | been. The little watchers are called | into the houses and where doughnuts | were expected there are dumps. As | the fact that there will be no dough- | nuts is fully realized desire increases and woe deepens in the luckless house. holds The week ends in disappoint- ment and begins in a Sunday without Only those who have had their mouths made up for some of N. R. 5tark's doughnuts can really appreciate what lack of them means but to them it means much. Several families in East Haddam did not have a very im- proving Sunday last Sunday.
 There must be some Reform in East Haddam. If Mir. N. R. Stark cannot arrange so that all the people of East Iaddam who want doughnuts can have hem when they want them he must dismount from his dough- lut chariot and give up the doughnut business to somebody who is capable If dealing with the situation It will lot do to have any of the good people # East Haddam disturbed by a def-