Waterbury Democrat., 1901-06-22
AS you LIKE IT
Some Stray Leaves from Reporters
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Note Book.
 Speaking of newspaper errors, friend of the As You Like It man writes as follows: It must have been the printers devil himself who rep resented very worthy advocate or the cause of female suffrage as e1- horting her hearers to maintain their tights" What the bridesmaids at a recent wedding must have thought when they read that they all had worn Handsome brooches, the gift of the bridegroom," one can only guess. But whatever their thoughts may have been at seeing their pretty brooches thus transformed their Ian guage at any rate cannot, we may as sume. have matched that of the poli7 tician who read the following com ment of one of his speeches, 'Them asses believed him." On another oc-- casion a reporter wrote, At these words the entire audience arose and rent the air with shouts" The con- positor had set up shouts correctly. but had not observed that the. top Of the was broken of.
 Now that confirmation day and com mencement day are past for this sea- son it will do no harm to say a word about the dresses and other things that should be worn on such occasions It may be useful another time. One who has given it much study says that dresses should not be too fussy for either confirmation or commencement. Mothers should remember that. confir- nation is a sacrament and should be happy when her child is deemed wor- thy to be permitted to receive it, and that the dress, while it should be ap- propriate for the occasion, is the least to be thought of. By that mean the child should not be worried about dress, and will not if the parents are not. Commencement frocks should be simple and white, ribbons and gloves also white. Silk gloves are best, as the hand is not pinched and the fin gers can be moved with ease; besides they are cooler Girls, even If tall, can wear white bow ribbon in the hair. School girls should eschew jewelry, particularly when dressed in white. Nothing is more vulgar than the freaks that are used as s"good luck" tokens. Blue eyes must not wear purple or blue with a purple tinge. Irish lace is the newest. Thread gloves can ha worn on dressy occasions for outdoor affairs.
 On1y 10000 whites in Pretoria to- day as against 250, 900 before the war; 22.000 women shut up in camps and the death rate for May among the children S1S- This is the latest from South Africa. and people read it over with as little concern as. if they felt like saying, Good enough for them.v Aye, that's it.. What business had they to take up arms in defense of. their country. Although we don't hear much these days about South Af- riean affairs. yet the work of killing on the people by starvation and other methods is going merrily on under the fostering hand of s'the mother coun- try" and bold indeed would be the man. who would dare say that what is being done there is not for the good of man. kind. It is the most brutal war of modern times; as a matter of fact 1t isn't war at all, but a wholesale mas sacre of a brave race of people, and in consequence 1t is no wonder that the best blood of England is crying out against it; but of course the big fellows who have fheirseyes on theifer-' tile fields of the 9ransvaal and Orange Free State take no stock in the. pro- tests entered by the "plain people.- Most of the nobles and all the serfs are in favor of wiping out the Boers, and so long as this is so the work will be pushed to completion, unless the men folks, whose wives and children. mothers, sisters and sweethearts are being systematically murdered should succeed in turning the tables upon the enemy.
 l had a long chat with the superin- tendent of one of the local factories this week and during the conversation the subject drifted onto the business of stealing brass and copper, a rare thing twenty-five or thirty years ago, but al. most an everyday occurrence at the present time. The boss said he often wishes for return of the men and tbe times when everything about a<6lilI was as safe in the hands of 1xhe en- ployes as if 1t were stowea away in safe. He thought there Is q tendency to steal in this age and stated that no matter how much wages some men might receive they would not feel sat isfied unless they picked up anything of value that they can get hold of. I asked if he did not think that much of this dishonesty was due to the fact that the shops do not pay living wages and he replied very sharply as fol- lows: Not q bit of it. The rolling mills give all their help $1.50 day now and some receive more than that and that's as high as they ever paid for that class of labor. The trouble is tue re- suit of desire to get something for nothing. l remember when shop hands who had families used to rent patches of land if they did not own places themselves, and plant them be- fore and after working hours and by this means they succeeded in. getting almost everything they wanted for the table the year around. There is mighty little of this done now and If you ask man why he'm tell you he can buy such things cheaper than he could raise them. People are not willing to work as they used to and besides they make no effort to have their children help them. When was . youngster father often had half a days work done before starting for the shop and boys at that tipe had chores to at- tend to that turned their attention <1,c rrfoforIu 1,oJ.f&- k11o& ,... a