Waterbury Democrat., 1902-07-05
AS YOU LIKE IT
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 The As You Like It man was very l much attracted with a bulletin issued | by one of the local papers during the past week, Heading the bulletin was the following: Sensation. United States Senators in a fist fight" lm- mediately under it was the following: "Warship sent for" Some persons might have imagined whether the war ship was sent for to quell the distur- bance among our country's lawmak- CTS.
 Two window displays in Broadway candy-shops kept New Workers staring one day recently. In one window was a log cabin made of yellow molasses candy. Even the knots in the wood were reproduced, and through the chinks imitation freight glowed from a red electric bulb. A little further down the street man was modelling horse in chocolate. A Phidias could not have been more deeply absorbed in his work The sculptor ignored the gaping crowd entirely, and, as one longing youngster remarked, -she must have all the chocolate he wants, cause he hasn't licked his fingers once.'
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 Perhaps for poetic smile or quaint humor there is nothing better in the advertising line, than the Japanese English press. A few samples: Parcels done up with as much care as bestowed on her husband by low ing wife" Paper tough as elephants hide." ''The print of our book is clear as crystal the matter elegant as a sing ing girl" Customers treatef as polite ly as by the rival steamship com panies." SSilks and satins smooth as lady's cheek, and colored like the rainbow"
 The AS You Like It man heard a lit tie story about the exemp1iication of training up child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it." A couple of weeks ago mother started her two little boys off to school in the morning and 8 few minutes afterwards she had oc- casion to go on the back porch. There she saw a strange sight. The two boys that she had sent to school short time before she now saw kneel- ing on the steps of the porch in the position of suppliants. She asked them what they were doing kneeling there. The older of the two who is about 8 years replied that Willie had forgotten to say his prayers before he had started for school and that he was saying them then.
 
 That beautiful city, Hartford is away ahead of Waterbury in one thing Within its confines it contains a pro- lessor, who is engaged in the art of shining shoes. Just think of it! The people of Hartford have the pleasure, if they wish to avail themselves of the opportunity, of having their shoes shined by a professor. As one leaves the Hartford station and wanders into Asylum street, a bootblack chair at tracts his attention. Printed neatly on the side of the chair is the follow ing sign: Professor Frank Ramano. Union Bootblack" The common boot blacks better look out for their inter- ests. They better plan some offset to the invasion of their ranks by per- sons with the title professor. Their means of subsistence are threatened.
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 Two judges in Toronto once upon a time decided that the plaintiff in a libel suit must not refuse to answer questions concerning his relations eighteen years ago with woman who is now married and occupying good position in society, and the disclosure of whose name would lead to her be- ing ostracised. The decision is doubt less good law, but it is striking il- lustration of what cruelty and injustice can be perpretrated in the name of the law. Were newspaper to hold up this woman's past life to public con demnation, its publisher would be pun ished by the law, and rightly punish ed, for the misery he would bring up oh woman who for many years has been leading a respectable life, upon her husband and upon her children. Yet, what the law will not suffer the newspaper to do directly, the newspa- per can do through the machinery of the law itself.
 It has often been a matter of won derment to the writer why Waterbury is so shamefully maligned by out siders as a dirty city but he has been thinking it over of late and finds sev- eral things that conspire to create a bad impression on those who are but casually acquainted with one of the cleanest and prettiest little cities in New England. The first and foremost of those is in the Meadow street sta ton. Anyone who has passed through the city on the train and had time to see the station and it's environ ments arrives at the conclusion im- mediately that Waterbury is a hope 1esss case and with reason. Another one of the citys beauty marks is the Naugatuck river with its odoriferous fame. Our neighbors below certainly concur in the opinion that we are "the worst ever" Finally, one of the req sons assigned by a gentleman, who while he is not a resident of the city, is here most of the year, is that sever al of the newspapers of the city does not do her justice. Whether it is so or not is a question, but at any rate it has been the writer's exeprience that Waterbury is a very much abused city abroad. ..*
 The advantage of always being or time in the performance of an appoint ment Is well illustrated in the following story told of one of the Vanderbilts and a person seeking a position. 4 young man, the son of an old friend NT,. oOaa asked 1lic in