Waterbury Democrat., 1902-02-15
As YOU LIKE IT
Some Stray Leaves from T Reporters
 Note Book

Wanl IO SpBtlh lily l4tl1C PtCSC III favor of Mayor Kilduf $ contention, that we have tco many holidays Ill the public schools and that children can be taught better how to observe Wash ington and Lincoins birthdays in the class rooms than hanging around the street corners. These words have the ring of sound judgment and connlon sense and the man who uttered them has been praised in every honIe i'll the city except, perhaps, ones that shelter people who have acquired thorough education and who are now receiving q liberal compensation for imparting q little of what they know to others, and whose pay goes on whether scno.-. keeps or not.
 Every person who lost anything in the fire thinks his own case the worst of all and talks of his troubles the same as if he were the only one the flames robbed. The things moue Sed q most it seems. are those that had no commercial value A man told the As You Like It man this week that be lost about $500 worth of furniture, but this did not worry him half as much as a picture of one Of his children, who died years ago in neighboring state. It was the only one he had of the boy, and no doubt the man spoke the truth when he said that he would gladly have offered as tribute to the fire de mon all the rest of his property pro- vided th. picture of the little curly haired boy that was called away be fore he had attained the age of six years should be spared. Another man wept over the loss of an old pair or epectacles his mother gave him as a Keepsake the day before she died while the loss of $500 or S400 worth cf wearing apparel and other property did not appear to have cost him a thought
 When one gives q moments consid- eration to the reports that have been In circulation for the last few months about the Ingersoll watch, which is made at the clock shop. one sees how ridiculous they are and what fool one must be to give them a moments en- tertainment. Tn the first place, the watch bears Mir Ingersoll's name mere Iy by courtesy. He does not own it. He could not remove it's manufacture from tho hands of the Clock Go even if he wished to- which. fortunately for the peace of all. he does not Every part of the little machine is patented by the Clock Go All the improve -ments which it has undergone from the first time it was put on the market have been made by the Clock Go. Tn a word. every particle of the watch is made and owned by the Clock Go. The employees. if seems. should know this better than an outsider, but apparent 1y they do moi, for every report re- garding it emanates from them. There fore. why all this foolish and sensa- tioual rumor for the past few months. The Ingersoll watch is giving work to thousands of men and women and it would be big blow to the city if the market did not support it.
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 The average man nowadays has sailed around the world or the greater part of it. It cost him a good penny, but here is the story of q man who made money on 1t and did not work q tap during the trip. He started out with $1,600 and came back to New . York ten months later $500 richer, and he had the time of his life. He first sailed for Mexico. Then he struck the irritable and tempestuous republics of South America. He. crossed the coun- try to the Andes and saw the Pacific ocean. Sojourning there a few months. he re-crossed to Brazil, and from that port sailed for South Africa. Then his route took him to North Africa, then to southern Europe, through Spain. Portugal and France. Then 1t occurred to him that he had not seen India. so he took the next vessel and spent a month under the protection of the Union Jack. Back he went again to France then over to England, Ireland and Scotland, and at the close of ten nnonths he found himself in New York stronger in purse and health. How did he make the $500 besides paving all his expenses and never worked a rap! He made it by buying one coun- try's money and selling it to another country. He lost something in Eng land. for there he gave S5 for a pound whereas he received only S4S4 for q pound or sovereign when he landed here.
 The As You Like It man was very much pleased to note q couple of ef- fusions from the pen of his old friend IilF5 OlHpE- SQDlS IH1nGS that have appeared in the columns of the Democrat during the past connie of weeks. As a rule sPlunk's'' logic when put into verse is true to nature. but ii is doubtful if some of on,. bouncing widows and gay widowers who are out for new conquests will agree with him when he declares thaf loving hearts are ever true. cen whan the gates of death are passed ' While we have no doubt but that s'Plunk', is just the kind of being he had in mind when he conceived that sublime thought. stu sunnosing he were moi. eled on different lines. what else could he have said on that question? Tho production referred to displavs consid- erahle literary merit and advocates +Ia highest ideals of tho human i1eart h,lt even so. 1t is not likely to be given i very conspfeuous place among col1ec. tions of tue kind kept by people who. while they may see nothing wrnng in 1t. cannot live Tn to tllat standar1 if con1ugal love without getting info ! whole lot of trouble with ffat master charT1er known as Dan Cupid who readily puts new eyes into the heads of many good people and bv this means shows them so much beauty and orooA Tn ff1dSa o13o31f fTfrr7,