Waterbury Democrat., 1901-04-06
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Some Stray Leaves from a Reporters Note Book.

Some Stray Leaves from Reporter 5
 Note Book.
 It is hoped that tomorrow will be good day overhead. If not the ladles who have been preparing during the past few weeks to don their sprlhg bonnets will be sOrely disappointed, and the men folks will feel it, too, for the latter take great pride in looking at their wives and daughters and best girls arrayed in Easter costumes.
 A short time ago small fire oc- cured In a private residence i'll this city, and while the damage to the building was slight, the loss in other ways was considerable. One article disappeared, and although it would not bring cents at public auction, still the lady of the house feels worse over it than she would if the building had been reduced to ashes, provided this was spared. 1t was a tallyiron that had been an heirloom in the family for the past 15O years, and was greatly prized by the old lady, who would not part with it for it's weight in gold. She never used 1t herself, but she says she often took look at it, and when ever she did it invariably brought to her mind the dear dead days of long ago. when she stood by the hreside and watched her grandmother. and Inter her own mother. fixing the border of their nice, white linen caps with 1t. She brought it to this country fifty years ago and kept it ever since. After the fire the family ripped up carpets and threw out a lot of rubbish, which was carted away and thrown in the dump. and she is of the opinion that the tallyiron went out with the debris. If any one should find such an article he will confer great favor upon a very fine old woman by returning It to the Democrat office. 1t is a small affair, but the owner would gladly pay handsomely for it's return if she had the means.
 ReruenIber we are what we are. let us find out what we are adapted fn and then work hard along that line. says Boyce's Hustler. A woman call'f educate herself to be a blonde if she is a brunette. She may simulate blondness, but inspection will show she fs a 75-bottle blonde. You can imi- tate the literature and plans of q sue cessfu1 man, but you can't initiate his inner soul or brain. 1t is the Hidden force in a man that cuts the tce--he irnparts his very self to his work, his individuality shows in everything he does. Minds. like tools, neest rest oc- casfonalIy. and while at rest mind, like a magnet. takes on more force. A magnet continuously used loses its pow CT like a bright mind. When you feel your efforts are heavy and your work dragging. then it is time to s'go-a-iish. ing a few days. One of the most sue cessful aivertisess We know of takes a day off every few weeks and gees to the country md be does five times as much real work in day as he would if he kept up high tension all f.1e time. This same man we speak of has built up business in less than seven years that now amounts 10 ter million dollars annually. all through the mails. The man who does the work he is born to iio makes srcc ass and never becomes q has-been. We hear a great deal about ''has-becns'' hut our investigation shows us they are ssneyer-was 'esp They are like the 75-cent-a-bottle blohdes; they passed for something they were not and found out afterward.
 1t is doubtful whether the city fath CTS acted wisely in refusing to gran the Hellmann Brewing Go permission to swing a book beer banner to thu breeze during the holidays. If bocl possesses all the medicinal qualities those who make 1t claim for it, to- many people cannot be informed tea 1t Is out and con be had almost every where at a small cost It is said tha the doctors, druggists and undertaken fr. f1r.fr- .1o f1,r,f Io of book being kept in the shade t some extent on account of the banne not being out, because they believ that ft will help their business. The. say that there are many people wh would hear of it in this way that neve read a paper and that for this reasol old book will not have chance to ton up the systems of all the residents O the town and thus rob them of goo share of their business. But we thin the doctors and others are greatly mis taken about this. The newspaper have heralded the advent of boo much better than 1t could have bee done in any other way so that if it b a good spring tonic all who have fait in it have been duly warned that 1t here, and If they fail to take advaI take of 1t they will have no one t blame but themselves. It might nc be amiss- to state. however, that neitl CT the doctors. druggists nor undertal CTS had anything to do with the actio taken on the banner question by tn board of public works. The board ac ed In good faith on the matter and " think we do no member of that bod any injustice when we state that h has no prejudice against old book c those who use 1t. that is, provided tn laws of quantity are observed.