Waterbury Democrat., 1902-05-31
AS YOU LIKE IT
Some Stray Leaves From q Reporters
 Note Book.

shop windows with pipes. These are also the predominating features or the interior of their stores. The req son for this is odd. After Easter ana in June many of the years marriages occur, and bridegrooms, for the sake of economy, forsake the expensive cigar and Turkish cigarette and in lieu thereof take up the pipe. To meet the demand of these prudent young men, pipes of all kinds are displayed conspicuously by tobacco dealers, who sell, they say, more pipes in April and June than in all other ten months Of the year.
 There was quite q scramble at the town clerks office this morning for the first copy of the proposed new consti- tuition of Connecticut distributed in Waterbury While Janitor Loughlin was picking nails out of the lid of the box several prominent citizens gather ed around, each anxious to get hold of the first copy. There were 4.SO0 copies in the box. done up in bundles of 100 each. After the clerk had counted them he said he thought he had as good a right to the first one himself as anyone else. Thomas F.. McMahon, clerk of heNboard of chari- ties, tried to get ahead of MT Brett, and while the two men were grabbing for the same pamphlet it fell to the hoor and was picked up by the ianitor who settled the question by putting it i'll his own pocket with the remark that he guessed one of the 4.S00 copies be- longed to him. Mir Loughlin says he will put it away as souvenir.
 The As You Like It man read with interest the interview which his friend the reporter had with q Baltimore man the other day i'll regard to trolley fran chises and what the trolley companies ill Baltimore pay into the treasuries of that city. It reminded him of an ex- perience of his now and then. Did you ever board a trolley car. outside the ball grounds after q game? The car is run at fairly good rate until it reaches the switch on West Main street. All the fares have been col lected by the time the switch is reached. There the passengers are given plenty of time to view the sur rounding neighborhood, to say their prayers Ghere are two kinds of pray ers1 and to fall asleep. When the car from the center finally arrives at the switch, those; who did not fall to sleep, have expressed their opinion in no gentle manner, of the trolley ser vice. When they arrive at the center, they sometimes find their friends, who walked, standing in Exchange place waiting to sympathize with them.
 Owing to the high price of meat, many persons are not eating as much meat as formerly and a few persons have ceased to eat it at all, not be- cause they cannot afford to pay for it, but because of their hatred for the beef trust. A young married couple friends of the As You Like It Man. had read much in the papers of meat being used too much. that people were using more meat than they should. That they derived no benefit by so do- ing. It is always easy to give advice but He's a wise divine who follows his own teaching.''. The young mar ried couple, induced by this advice, thought that they would practice econ- omy and also take better care of their health by eating less meat They de- cfded to try health food They tried one kind. They used it once, didn't use any more They tried another kind, it did not suit them any better than the first. They tried six differ ent kinds and all seemed alike to them. They were thrown away. The couple are still eating meat.
 
 Madame Modjeska's view of human nature runs something like this: The public is so fckle. The idol it sets up today, tomorrow lies in atoms un- der its feet. Here is where the heart break often comes to an actress. Fame, money, everything the world counts as success. cannot atone for the inevi- table end. when theatergoers seek out new faces and forget the old ones. A writer sends out his books as long as he is able to hold a pen The public cares nothing for his gray hair or stopped shoulders. People look at the pictures painted by an artist, not at his personality. The actor is him. self the picture, which cannot in too great a degree depart from his phy- sique. There are exceptions to this the truly great people of the stage who hold the esteem and love of their au- diences to the very end. These, how ever, are not the people in the ranks, but the great officers. One cannot judge the profession by their success. The girl who wishes to go on the stage must ask herself whether she has the courage and the will to meet the ob- stacles Then, too, she should be sure there is the little lamp burning inside. Finally, what is it all worth2
 John Mitchell, like so many other labor leaders in this country, is still q young man. He is thirty-three years of age. He went into the coal mines as a boy of thirteen. His school educa- ton was supplemented by night studies chiefly upon economic questions, and especially those relating to the organi- zation of labor. He joined the Knights of Labor in 1885, and ten years later, when he was twenty-five years old, he was elected secretary treasurer of a district organization of the United Mine workers. His subsequent rise in bower within the organization was ex- fre1neIy rapid In 1897 he was elected