Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1901-02-14
Bellows Falls Times
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY IA, 1901.
CURRENT EVENTS.

I'LL SONNLl<l L I'm -.
Mrs E. B. Lund of Burlington, presi-
dent of the w. c. T. U in that city, is Of
the opinion that Mrs, Carrie Nations
methods would not accomplish much good
in Vermont. What we want, she says, is
a persistent and impartial enforcement Of
the present prohibitory law
Evidently the plate glass mirrors in the
Burlington drug stores are in no immedi-
ate danger from the local organization Of
w. G, L. U.
The Countess de Castellane (nee Could
is allowed by the courts 100000 a year
for the support of herself and children,
while the rest of her annual income Of
100000 is to be applied on the $4,000
900 worth OF debts contracted by her noble
husband in France and England.
On beggarly pittance of 100000 a
year the Castellanes will probably have to
give up keeping a girl though they may
put the washing out.
An Ashtabula minister has discovered
that it pays to advertise, and now runs in
the newspapers large display advertise
ments of the services in his church
His first announcement doubled the size
OF the congregation, and the second IN
creased the attendance Sunday evening
from $50 to 400
This Ashtabula clergyman is evidently
one of those ecclesiastical hustlers who
keep their brother pastors on the qui vive
by startling and up-to-date schemes of
church expansion and oblige them to ex-
ercise constant watchfulness over the stray
Cling members Of their focks, lest they,
too, swell the congregation, which the
hustler obviously takes the opportunity to
count during the singing of the first hymn.
Since in the present divided state OF
Christendom, there is no more rivalry be-
tween department stores than there is be-
tween churches, why shouldn't they all adj
vertise?
A boarder in New York has left al his
money to the landlady in whose house he
had lived for fifteen years.
A landady who could keep boarder
for fifteen years deserves all the fortune
that is coming to her, no matter how large
it is; for, even with the most considerable
of boarders, it cannot be an unalloyed
pleasure to receive stranger into ones
house and cater to his likes and dislikes for
that length of time.
The successful landlady has to be an ex-
ceptional person, of an unvarying even
ness of disposition and of uncommonly
robust health; for the boarders much pre-
fer to do all the complaining themselves.
She must have an unfailing fund of SYM
pathy for all the headaches, neuralgia,
nervousness and WEAKNESS of body and
mind with which other people are afflicted,
and no ailments of her own to distract her
attention or prevent her furnishing catnip
tea and Cruel at all hours of the day and
night.
1t is amazing what general feebleness
there seems to be and how few there
are who do not feel obliged to take a
tablet or tablespoonful of something be-
fore and after each meal So marked has
this habit become that occasionally one sees
In hotels, whose propretors are unfeeling
monsters with an aversion to tonics,
printed request that the guests leave their
in their own rooms and do not
carry them to the dining room.
Everybody who boards imagines that he
or'she is model boarder who makes no
trouble worth speaking Of and whose wants
are easily supplied.
They only expect to have the run of the
entire house and be as much at home and
as continually underfoot as parlor cat
Breakfast, dinner and supper are to be
ready when they are ready, if that is never
twice at the same time, and their dyspeptic
appetites must be carefully pampered de-
spite the financial foolishness of such
policy.
In fact all they ask is for home where
they can be treated like company No
boarder of any experience ever wanted to
to be considered as one of the family with
all the warmed-over food, wash day lunch
es and other economical devices which that
relationship implies; what is wanted is
company pie and company cake, but none
of those one-egg affairs that are plenty
good enough for the family"