Waterbury Democrat., 1901-07-27
AS YOU LIKE IT
Some Stray Leaves from a Reporters
 Note Book.

life. Tell them that if their clothing takes fire they should not run from one room to another. or out of doors, so that the draft fans the flames to great CT ferceness, but lie down on the floor and roll over and over to crush them; or better, roll themselves in heavy rug or blanket, a woolen shawl or something which will exclude air ana thus deaden the flames. In case the clothes of another take fire, they are to pursue the same tactics. l recall a case where a little toddler, left alone in a room with an open fire, thrust newspaper into it. The flames seized it instantly and the child. too frightened to let go, held the burning fragment till its light muslin dress caught, and but for the prompt act of her eight year-old brother. who entered just as she put the paper on the grate and who was quick enough to drag Heavy woolen spread from a table and throw 1t entirely over her, would have burn- ed to death. As it was, she escaped with severe burns. the marks of which she carried for years.
 Apropos of the tune, "The Wearing of the Green" which was played recently at the presentation of an honorary de gree to Dr Traill at Glasgow univer- sity, several papers have yentured on assigning a date to this well-knOwn air, says the Freeman's Journal of Dublin. OEe organ of public opinion says that it was composed in 1757, another in 1765, and a third in 179S. Even Dr Pc trie was inclined to regard the 'rebel- lious" song as having been composed in 1T9S. The fact is that the tune to which Boucicault set his fine song, in 1850. was an old Irish air dating from 1715. which passed over to Scotland in 1925, and was stolen by an unscfupu- Ions Scotch musician, James Oswald. and published by him as 'The Tn'ip' in 1856. Oswald himself was q little nervous about issuing the fine old Irish air as hIs awl, for. though he got the work Iicens,sl in 1747. he did not ven- ture to print T. till 1856. The usually well informed musical critic of Truth tells us that "The Wearin' O the Green'' was partly rewritten toward the end of the eighteenth century to words associated with a certain now forgotten individual named Napper Tandy" The '.now forgotten indiyid- ual." Napper Handy, was a very iin- portant parsonage in 1792. and was made a general of division by Bona parte in 179S. The Anglo-Irish song which has handed down his name was written in 1796. and ar English setting of the air appeared .n 1880. as 'Tile Captain with His Whiskers." described as "an enormously successful ballad, sung by Madame Ycstris."
 The art of window advertising is thus discussed by one who takes pleas ure in looking at the display. The pc culiar forms that advertising takes fur nish a source of amusement to the stroller He comes upon a crowd laughing before the show windows of a drug store, and investigation, which means some elbowing and good-natured jostling, reveals a boy eating soapsuds from pile which he has worked up be- fore him in large tub. The soap that is eatable is for sale within the store. and the fact that boy can dispose of soapsuds with apparent relish leads the stroller to believe that the soap must be harmless when applied to fab- rics. which it is guaranteed to cleanse without destroying. Farther along the street is a window where a girl sits with her back to the populace, display ing a glorious length of hair that somebody's tonic induced to attain such great luxuriance A man sits in the window of another shop busily en- gagged in rolling pills. This he does with such a nicety as to make one long for taste. as if the bitter pei lets were choice bonbons. The pill man never smiles, nor does he appear at all conscious of the crowd before the window. The athlete who adyer- tfses the latest contrivance for muscu- lar development is usually an attractive man physically, so 1.-the and yet so full of strength is he. A young woman who went through a<series of exercises in a show window once upon time was not nearly so good to look upon, for she had neither the abandon nor the lack of self-consciouSness with which men do such things.
 That the shirt waist is the most sensible fad ever adopted by man in historic or prehistoric times, is ad- mitted even by the most fastidiouS. indeed, so essential part of mans at tire has it become and so various and pleasing are the colors used, that the fair sex are beginning to think that it's own especial Kingdom has been in- vaded by those horrible men," We all know that since the days of Eve vanity has been virtue applied chiefly to women, It is mans most powerful weapon against her. To her joy, if we may believe the shirt waist mans sis ter, this quality now exists in the high est degree in the male sex, as the fol lowing story will illustrate. Within the last two weeks a lawn party has been held i'll this city for which vari- ous young men around town had in- yitations, which clearly stated that it would be shirt waist affair. One Of the As You Like It mans friends was among the lucky number. Now, the latter Is a regular Beau Brummel in the matter of dress, indeed, so many of his shirt waists have been copied that he has been thinking strongly of having Waterbury youths restrained from making "goO-goO eyes" at his waists. On the night in question he was attired in a white and blue striped one for a two-fold reason. It not only suited his style, but had often been ad- mired by the lady friend whom Ie was to honor that evening. So far so ,f<x1 I,