Waterbury Democrat., 1901-09-07
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Some Stray Leaves from Reporters i Note Book.

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 The local board of education was not 10 generous in dealing with the school children as was the New Haven Doafu- The latter extended the date or open ing the schools for a week or two, oW- ing to the warmness of the weather Judging from the past two or three days thev made no mistake in regard to the weather being warm. The IocaI schools, however, have reopened TOT the fall term and everything is now m smooth working order The majority of people do not know how much work has to be performed with the reopenlng of schools. Of a difficult nature in- deed is the making of a schedule Tor 600 pupils of the High school. It Is no easy task to divide 600 pupils, who have to recite at least four periods each, into six periods and do 1t prop erly. Principal Wilby had charge or the schedule and he did it with a finesse Idat commands respect. The schedule was made before the opening of school and was in working order on the second day of school.
 Bass ale, as most people know, espe- cially adherents of temperance, does not come under the category of tenn
 
 temperance young man in the Brook lyn district has been led to believe that it does during the past two weeks. Though strictly temperate, the young man In question is affiliated with no temperance society. 4 short time since several of his friends, who are not noted as total abstainers, paid him a friendly visit and incidentally re marked that they were somewhat thirsty. The host proclaimed that he was not fond of soda water. ginger ale, etc, and as to strong drinks he drew the line. Well. his friends did not wish to enjoy the social glass without his company. Accordingly they per euaded his that bass ale was a tenn perance drink Deceived. the young temperance advocate sent after some of the ale, and the trio drowned their sorrows in the social glass. The young man does not as yet know why smile adorns the faces of his fellow mem bers in a popular athletic club when ever bass ale is mentioned.
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 NIs there really any. connection be- tween the cast of q writer's mind and his handwritingT" asks an exchange. s-Thackeray was one of the neatest of writers, and boasted that if other trades failed he could get his living by writing the Lords Prayer on a shil- ling. Keats wrote like a clerk, and Gray, Tom Moore. Leigh Hunt and Sir Walter Scott all used running hands which were legibIe without any marked characteristics. The same may be said of the writing of Anthony TrollOpe and Professor Tyndall, none, perhaps, of these writers being much given to subtlety of expression Car lyle. on the other hand. is said to have produced the most untidy and awful Ecribble that ever puzzled a compost tor, and Victor Hugo, Browning and Tennyson were nearly as bad. Yet, al- though this looks as if there might be some sort of a rule in such matters, we find Napoleon. who certainly never failed in directness of expression. writ ing a hand that he could not read himself, and Macready the actor, whose order for the theater was once taken for a prescription for a cough mixture. One thing seems pretty cer- tain-that the mere size of the letters has little to do with the character. Nearly all people who write much get into the habit of using very sAlall characters, but this is probably due to the same cause as the corresponding peculiarfty in Meissonier's pictures. Such writers nearly all wear specta- cles to relieve the eyesight, blinded by boring over miserable books.'