Waterbury Democrat., 1901-08-10
AS you LIKE IT
Some Stray Leaves from a Reporters
 Note Book.

Note DOOh-
 Speaking of the women of the pres ent day and those who have gone De- fore, a writer says that women of live ly. sensitive minds will go through hardships unutterable without break ing down, where a cOmmOn-minded fe- male is crushed. Witness Mrs John Adams in the days of the Revolution, her husband away. children and family falling i'll from smallpox and fever, in dread of British invasion of their pleasant Weymouth Landing. scarcely less to be dreaded than an Indian sur prise. the cares of the farm and hay crop on her hands. living in want Of every feminine necessity. not only of dress, but such things as tea, sugar and writing paper, yet she went through those wearing seasons of sep aratiOn and shone beautiful and witty at the court of St James.
 Sometimes a general advertiser wno has plOdded along i'm modest way for years will suddenly break away from his traditions and begin to plunge. Heretofore he has been prudent and conservative. satisfied with the returns from small advertisements in limit ed number of newspapers. Without ap- parent reason. he increases his orders right and left. and does not trouble himself to dicker over rates before closing a contract. Publishers, who are a cynical lot. wonder if the plunger means to pay his bills Speaking of such an advertiser few days ago. a New York special agent said the cir cumstances recalled the story of a deacon with a welI-earned reputation for probity, whom his pastor surprised one day in a state of advanced, almost inarticuIate. inebriety. ..Why. deacon, I am amazedr' exclaimed the clergy man. ..Sho m L. was the answer. punctuated with many a hiccough. "What'z more. I reck'n I'm full. But yer zee. I've sherved the Lord steady forty years. an I thought s bout time to have day off"
 sswhen Having Time Is Over is the title of a song written by bright school girl, and dedicated to Thomas Kelly, the baker, who spends the great CT part Of the summer months on his farm at Quassapaug. A few days ago the author of the poem asked the As You Like It man if Mir Kelly had left town for good, adding that she thought so on account of not seeing him quoted in the news columns of the papers on current topics for q long time. On learning that the wealthy baker was having and would show up about town in the fall chock full of interesting stories for the reporters, she expressed some surprise at the idea of the baker working on farm. and while she did not say anything, still there was some thing in her demeanor that would lead one to believe that she did not take much stock in the statement. A few days after the verses were forwarded to the AS You Like It. man. accom- panied by q request that they should not be published without the consent of Mir Kelly. It is nice song. and when MT Kelly sees it he will want if set to music besides having it printed in the papers, And then we'll all be hummIng: When the having time is over and Kelly's back in town"
 Automatically worked phonographs imprisoned in pagOdas are the latest in yentiOns in the way of advertisements fin London. says a trade paper. From the small structure proceeds a strong masculine voice, describing a dinner tC be had at such-and-such a restaurant for such-and-such a price, and from another most gentlemanly accent anG well-bred voice announces that I alway: get my hats at so-and-so's. and my tail or always turns out first-rate ''togs.' CCof and GanHrrx-x4 I0nf ago there was an exceedingly interest ing story by Wells. running in tn, Weekly Graphic. describing sort O Rip Van Wrinkle. who awakens in tn, twenty-sixth century If I am not mis taaen in the datel and finds London most marvellous city, with tiers O streets stretching up to the sky. an, great phOnOgraphs 'babbling' out tn news of the moment to passers-by. an, to-day the idea has taken hold of tn enterprIsing merchants of the twen tieth century, and the babbling ma chimes are actually in use in the Strand such is the progress of this extraordl nary age. In a little while prime min isters and political magnates will cor duct their political campaigns by mean of this wonderful invention, and prin will become obsolete in a measure"
 It is hard to please everybody, ant probably no class of people find tha more difficult than do the trolley con ductors. They are under instruction to reach certain switches on schedul time. In fact. they must do that o the whole line will be disarranged To do that they have to leave certain switches just on the moment in orde to make the next stop or switch. Tn general run of conductors in Water bury are pretty we'll acquainted wit the various passengers who ride ol the cars, and many times they hay waited a half minute to allow passen gers to get out of their homes an catch the car One such passenger ha been known to ask the conductor t hold the car while he finished hi breakfast and arranged his necktit This has been done on one occasion so they say, and yet this same pas sengef complains if the car leaves O schedule time and he was comDelIe to do his dressing and get ready fo the next car. Perhaps the next re quest will be for the conductor to sen on ahead to his house and have hiT awakened: they might. too. prepar his breakfast on the cars and furnis
 him with a valet. He does not realiz H< n III a4