Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-02-16
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 A prominent Catholic woman who came to Waterbury over forty years ago and did house work for the late Israel Holmes, said the other day that she regretted that her health would not permit her to attend his funeral. "I did my first days work in Ameri- ca in his kitchen" she said, ''and a better man girl never worked for. The first wages I received he called on me and asked me what intended to do with it. He ad- vised me to put as much of it as l could spare in the bank. and cautioned me about being always prepared for rainy day handed him as much of the money as I did not want to use at the time, and he placed it in the bank and brought me bank book which he gave me with the ad- monition to never let a pay day go by without adding little to my bank account took his advice, and from that day to this have never known the want of a dollar. At that time there were not many Catholic girls in Waterbury, and the few of us who were here used to make ocoa- sional calls on each other. Mir Holmes liked the idea and would speak to the girls who called to see me with the same courtesy that he would to the visitor to his own family. He laid great stress on girls keeping good hours and often used to say that it was the best pos sible proof of good girl to find her in her own home at a seasonable houl" think, she added. "the well to do people of to-day don't take the game interest in the well fare of the working people as the men of | those times used to do. The girls get bet ter wages now than We used to, but where | does it all go? Very few of them have a dollar when they get chance to settle down and have often thought that this is due to the fact that they are not taught | the value of money at the proper time and go on earning good money and spending it foolishly so that after years of toll very | few Of them can afford to live idle for a month no more than many of the spend thrift men whose wastful habits are the constant theme of women who cannot un- | derstand why men don't take better care | of their earnings and never give A thought to their own silly habits" She held that Mir Holmes did not leave many of his equals behind him.
 KELLY, the fisherman, as everybody knows, is theorist, and a good one, too. It remained for him to discover why the pickerel in the East Mountain reservoir have not been biting. The other day, while hoping against hope for a bite tha, never came. it dawned upon him that the | wind was blowing from the northW est. That settles it. said Kelly, I'm going home. 1 When pressed for an explanation the genial baker said that in summer the time to | catch pickerel Is when the wind is from the | west, but leave hope behind when you go | after pickerel through the ice and have | the breeze from the west in your face. Seems funny, too. when you come to think of it, that with foot or two of ice bet V cen them and tho outside world, the point from which the wind is blowing should make any difference to pickerel about taking or not taking bait. cant be- gin, to tell you why this is so, because don't know, but time and again when I have been fishing in strong east wind and hauling in pickerel the wind has shifted around to the west. As the wind changes the pickerel began gradually to leave my bait until by the time the gale was sweep ing over the ice from the west not tip-uI would tip, and it was time for Kelly to gc home.
 THE Traction Co let slip chance tt make few dollars last night. and fully one hundred people who wanted to rid,
 
 performance at the opera house. Accord ing to schedule the last cars leave the cen ter at 10:42. It was l045 when the per formance was over last night, and thos, who rushed out to catch a car were just 1T time to be too late. The same is true af ter nearly every performance at the oper, house. A wait of not more than ten minutes would make everybody happy.
 l OCCASIONALLY we meet merchant who declares that advertising does not pay What a convincing argument there IS now for the advertising man to aim at such Last night standing room only was th' word passed along the line at the opers house. It was a very creditable perform ance, to be sure. But let 1t be remembeTed that many of the very finest companies or the road have played to almost empty benches in Waterbury. and for that matter all over the country, since the dull timet came. What, then. filled the house las night and will do it again tonight. Tn, magic word advertising tells the whole story. For nearly a month every issue O the daily papers have told of petite Lillian kennedys inability to marry three" Al first people paid but littl. attention to th, announcement. After few days they be- came interested, then anxious. The! watched for the announcement each day and when the sale of tickets began thert Vas rush for seats that was gratifyin! alike to the showmen and the newspapers For the first named it meant dollars while the daily papers had the pleasure O knowing that the advertising brought re suits. The moral is so plain that h. who runs may read "She Couldn't Marr. Three" paid the DEMOCRAT a good rounC sum for extra advertising It was bread cast upon the waters.