Waterbury Democrat., 1902-11-01
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Some Stray Leaves From Reporters
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Some Stray Leaves From a Reporters
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always heard that Scotchmen were
very proud of their country and never
hesitated to own It when the occasion
called Tor such conduct, but / never
had a practical illustration Of ii until
few days ago when l called upon the
foreman of the METROPOLITAN Fire
Proof co Of New York to inform MIN
OF the sad accident that happened a
couple OF his men who were asphyxi-
ated by Illuminating gas In their room
on Cottage place. / found the fore
man quite gentleman and after re-
celvlng such information as l desired
about the unfortunate men, one Of
whom was dead at the time and the
other passed away later inquired his
name. my name, sir" he replied.
sis Laurie "The same name az
Annie Laurier 1 said taking this
means of finding out what way to
spell it. Eyes" he replied. 'sand the
same country, too, sir" The gentle
man had already won my admiration
BY the interest he had shown in the
two men who had met with such pit-
iful fate, but / think he advanced a
step higher in my estimation when I
saw the graceful manner in which he
acknowledged his nationality. 1t Is
not prudent for man to make q BUSH
ness of parading his nationality, but
there are times when to do 50 looks
well and have a notion that Mr. Lau-
RE hit upon q most opportune moment
to do it.
A local young man. who is student
at the Yale Medical school, has been
receiving during the past week many
unique packages OF rice from his
friends in this city. Packages Of rice
may seem rather peculiar gifts. but
Tor the young man in question they
signify much. Every married couple
know how embarrassing 1t is to receive
shower of rice ut railroad station,
preparatory to starting out on hon
eymoon. How much more embarrass-
ing it must be for young man and a
/ young lady who are not newly mar
ried couple to be loaded down with rice
at the railroad station and to be taken
for bridal pair by the people in the
! station. Well. that is what happened
! to the local medical student and a par
ticular lady friend of his who lives in
4 another part Of the state. OF course
/ 1t was all a joke but the victims Of it
/ did not relish It,. The young lady had
been visiting her sister in New Haven
for few days and on last Sunday
night she started for home. Several
! Waterbury young ladies who were ac-
quainted witt her had been visiting at
the same place with this young lady.
who lives somewhere near Greenwich.
and they started home at the same
time. Of course the party would not
1 be complete without few gentlemen,
one of whom was the medical student,
who walked with his Greenwich friend.
4 On the way down to the station two
/ of the young ladies planned to perpe-
i trate q joke upon the student and his
friend. They went into Chinese res
j taurant. bought several bags or rice,
and Informed some of the members Of
the party of the scheme. AS the sup
posed bridal pair was entering the de-
i pot they were completely smothered
with shower of rice. All the people
in the depot witnessed the serenade
and made full inspection Of the sup
! posed bridal pair. The young man
blushed. stammered something 1ncoher-
ent. and the young lady's face grew
\ crimson and she was unable to speak.
! After a few minutes of utter embar-
rassment the young couple made a
hasty exit from the station. but their
friends were after them and every
body was consequently numbering" the
newly married pair As they started
i for the train the remainder Of the
4 partv began to sing bridal chorus and
to throw more rice 1t is safe to say
that both the young man and Young
lady were glad when the train pulled
\ ont Tho uoI1np man UOIyc ypnUnapon